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Broadcast India Show 2014
Sees Technological Revolution
Organisers say that the recently concluded Broadcast India Show 2014,
held at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Mumbai, surpassed all expectations
of exhibitors, delegates and visitors, alike...

T

he Broadcast India Show 2014
was once again the platform
from which the latest in broadcast
and ﬁlm, pro-audio, video and radio,
3D and digital cinema, IPTV and
Mobile TV, in their most futuristic
shapes and forms was on display.
Technological mammoths from all
corners of the world returned to the
exhibition ﬂoor to demonstrate and
discuss their creations, share their
widened perspectives, and light ﬁres
underneath the trends that will come
to deﬁne the future of technology as
we wait to see it.
One of the main highlights of the
show this year was the REDucation
Theatre, back for its second year
after a successful stint last year. This
time around, RED Digital Cinema
partnered with The New York Film
Academy to offer an on-going
series of workshops exploring the
RED DRAGON 6K.
The other featured attractions
included the Great Britain Pavilion
and the Production Village.
The show hosted 35 participating
countries and over 550 companies,
many of them exhibiting at the
show for the very ﬁrst time; with
an unprecedented visitor footfall
exceeding 18,000 visitors - a 19%
growth from last year.
Some of the world's leading
manufacturers such as Sony,
Blackmagic Design, Imagine
Communications, RED, Avid,
Adobe, Canon, Grass Valley, ARRI,
GoPro, Atomos, Boston, Wasp3D,
Carl Zeiss, Shure, RCS, Harman
and many more made their presence

Organisers said attendance was up
19% on last year

felt at Broadcast India Show 2014.
Exhibitors at the show included
the following companies:
AJA Video Systems highlighted
their groundbreaking CION camera.
AJA also showcased many other
products for acquisition, editing,
conversion and playback solutions.
DynamicDrivePool (DDP) by
Ardis Technologies, shortlisted in
the Storage category as a ﬁnalist
for the IABM Design & Innovation
Awards 2014, brought their fast,
easy to manage, use and maintain,
and the most cost effective high
performance IP SAN storage.
Canara Lighting launched
and displayed their complete
range of LED products for
broadcasting application.
Datavideo Technologies India
Pvt Ltd launched the Datavideo
TVS-1000 - a versatile, easy to use
virtual studio system, aiming to be
a complete solution for education,
distant learning, web TV, news
channels or even production
companies to create and present
unique video production within
minutes. Also launched was a
range of newly innovated products,
such as 6-CH HD/SD Digital Video
Switcher SE-2200 and HS-2200,
portable CG solution TC-200 for
laptop/PC and the VGA to 3G/
HD/SD-SDI Up-Down-Cross
Converter DAC-70.
Empress Media Asset
Management, LLC showcased
recent changes in the eMAM media
asset management system at the
Broadcast India Show 2014.
Etere is a leading company with
more than 24 years of experience
designing and developing endto-end workﬂow solutions for the
broadcast industry, brought their
revolutionary concept of MERP
(Media Enterprise Resources
Planning), a cloud-oriented
platform for a better and efﬁcient
management of all resources with a
common cloud based resource pool.
IHSE USA, a global provider of
ultra-fast and secure KVM matrix
switch and extender solutions for
broadcast related environments
and government agencies
announced the expansion of their
Draco vario line with the VariCage
2100 enclosure supporting HDMI,
DVI Dual-Link, or DVI Dual-Head
transmitters or receivers in only 4RU.

RED Digital Cinema's REDucation Theatre proved popular

Octopus Newsroom S.R.O.
mobile app, displayed at the
Broadcast India Show 2014,
proved to be a true extension of
the desktop-based client, allowing
users not just to review stories, but
to both create and edit reports using
a standard mobile device.
Panasonic launched the much
anticipated Varicam, the star of
a wide range of products and
innovations that will make ﬁlm and
TV production signiﬁcantly easier.
Also showcased was Panasonic's
new compact broadcast switcher -
AV HS6000, the ﬁrst 2ME model in
Panasonic's HS series. Panasonic
announced the products extending
to the segment where speed and
ﬂexibility are required with AVC Long
Gop which is twice as efﬁcient as
the current MPEG2-GOP.
PlayBox Technology, a 'TV
channel in a box' manufacturer,
ran one-to-one demos of the latest
developments and technology of
their solutions, which included
the ProductionAirBox and the
CaptureBox PRO.
Primestream, a leader in
advanced automation and asset
management software, offered a
seamless end-to-end platform
for the acquisition of live and
ﬁle-based digital content, editing,
logging, control room and master
control playback, web publishing,
smart phone video contribution,
and archiving.
Thales-Angenieux showcased
the unique design technique of
the awarded Optimo 28-76mm
and 15-40mm allowing the user to

achieve a new level of performance
and freedom of movement while
shooting in an anamorphic format.
Transvideo, a leading displays
company for the film industry
since 1985, unveiled StarliteHD,
CineMonitorHD
X-SBL,
RainbowHD, etc
Vitec Videocom, part of the Vitec
Group, brought together some of
the most respected, innovative
and sought-after brands in the
industry with a range of marketleading broadcast, ﬁlm and provideo products from Anton/Bauer,
Autoscript, Litepanels, OConnor,
Sachtler, Teradek, Vinten and Vinten
Radamec, as well as its rental and
services brands, Bexel and The
Camera Store, at the Broadcast
India Show 2014
Broadcast India Show 2015 will
take place on October 15 to17, 2015
at the Bombay Exhibition Centre
in Mumbai.

Blackmagic Design's Broadcast
India Show stand

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