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Snell Looks To Future For IBC
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t this year's IBC, Snell will offer
attendees a view into the future
of efﬁcient broadcast production,
showcasing product innovations
for live TV, IP routing and playout
automation.
Among the highlights are the new
XS platform, Media Biometrics and
Kahuna Maverik.
The new XS platform enables
software processing in the realtime IP streaming world. XS
builds on Snell's partnership with
Cisco to offer a comprehensive,
practical vision for IP streaming in
production, all based on standard
off-the-shelf hardware.
Snell will show IP streaming in
action across a range of formats
and devices, all with clean switching
using a standard Cisco switch.
The ﬁrst product in the new range,

Snell's Kahuna Maverik
reconﬁgurable switcher

Quasar XS, provides high quality upand-down conversion using Snell
motion compensation technology.
Media Biometrics is unique Snell

Prof Cox To Address
Telestream File-Based
Expanding TV Universe Workﬂow Automation

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NED: Broadcaster and Physics
Professor Brian Cox is to
provide an IBC keynote address.
Cox is recognised throughout
the world for his hit TV series
discovering and explaining the
wonders of life and the universe.
Inspired to become a physicist
by a landmark TV series, Cox said:
"I'm very much looking forward to
speaking at IBC2014. Television
programmes like Carl Sagan's
Cosmos and James Burke's
Connections had a great inﬂuence
on me when I was younger, and it's
my view that television is still the
most powerful and direct way of
inspiring new generations of viewers."
Cox will take part in the IBC
Conference keynote session
"Television's Expanding Universe"
on Sunday, September 14.
Cox will air his thoughts on TV and
its evolution.

USA: Telestream will use IBC2014
to showcase transcode support
for the latest OTT, IPTV and 4K
formats plus enhanced third-party
interoperability with leading vendors
including Avid, Adobe and Apple.
The company will demonstrate
assembly and transcoding
capabilities for the UK broadcast
industry's Digital Production
Partnership (DPP) initiative, and
cloud subscriptions for Vantage.
Telestream's Vantage platform
provides a broad range of
transcoding and file-based
workflow automation products,
and makes content production,
multi-screen delivery, and device
interoperability a hands-off process.
Telestream's Vantage combines
transcoding, media capture,
metadata processing, analysis,
and content assembly into a
unified system.

technology that enables systems to
automatically and reliably identify
media streams. The applications
are enormous. For example, the
new IQSAM00 provides fast and
efficient monitoring of video
and audio timing at various
points within an SDI system and
automatic correction of any lip-sync
errors that arise.
Media Biometrics offers logo
detection, audio track mapping
and signal QA - all of which can
be monitored and error flagged.
The Kahuna Maverik panel
offers a ﬂexible switcher interface
for every type of studio and
mobile programming. Its modular
architecture allows complete
ﬂexibility in design and enables
the panel to be rapidly reconfigured.

Q'ligent To Demo
Monitoring Vision
USA: At IBC, Q'ligent will
demonstrate how its softwaredefined Vision solution extends
the reach of media quality analysis
for linear TV - all while minimising
costs and infrastructure due to its
lightweight, intelligent architecture.
Using Q'ligent Vision, broadcasters
and network operators can improve
QoS and QoE for consumers through
comprehensive media analysis,
with insight into signal integrity
and performance up to the point
where signals reach consumers.
The result is a full understanding
of the TV viewing experience for
over-the-air, cable, satellite, and
IPTV delivery, without the costs
or complexity associated with
bandwidth-heavy backhaul and
platform-specific monitoring.
Q'ligent Vision is one of four
components that comprise the
company's monitoring portfolio.

Imagen System
Builds Partners
GBR: At IBC2014 Cambridge
Imaging Systems will preview version
3.4 of its Imagen media management
and publishing solution.
The company will also
demonstrate relationships with
key partners to create scalable,
secure end-to-end workflows.
Imagen 3.4 will boast cloud-based
object storage support for Microsoft
Azure and Amazon cloud services.
Tighter integration with Quantum's
IQ unified production, storage,
delivery and archive platform.
Imagen's storage service API
supports Spectra Logic's BlackPearl
deep storage appliance.

Second Screen
Interactivity
NED: Civolution will showcase
the future of ACR and the latest
advances in content protection at IBC.
"The second screen has become
an integral part of the TV viewing
experience and more content than
ever is shared over IP, driving a
new era in content consumption,"
said Civolution CEO Alex Terpstra.
Highlights at the show include the
latest developments in Civolution's
SyncNow ACR technology and new
functionality for its NexGuard Streaming
suite of content protection solutions.

Thomson Broadcast
Extends Transmitters
NED: Thomson Broadcast will
showcase two new ranges of
television transmitters at IBC.
Pascal Veillat, Thomson
Broadcast President and Arelis
Group Chairman, said the new
ranges would "meet customers'
highest expectations in terms of
compactness, energy efficiency
and signal quality performances".
A new autonomous and green energy
transmission system is expected.

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