In Broadcast - April 2016 - 6


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InNews
Balaji Chooses
Xstream & Diagnal
IND, HKG, DEN: India's Balaji
Telefilms has announced its
partnership with Xstream and
Diagnal for its upcoming OTT
entertainment service, ALT Balaji.
Xstream's cloud-based video
management system, Xstream
MediaMaker, will fuel ALT Balaji's
multiscreen solution ALT Balaji,
and Diagnal will be responsible for
front-end design, development,
big data solution and systems
integration.
ALT Balaji will extend the group's
creative expertise to the digital
domain by developing on-demand,
original and exclusive content for
digital audiences globally.

Debut For axle 2016
Media Manager
USA: axle Video is launching axle
2016, with an emphasis on greater
efficiency and power.
The new Plug-In Panel feature
of axle 2016 puts axle media
management into Adobe Premiere
Pro CC through an axle interface
window, allowing editors to search,
browse, and import clips without
leaving the application.
This brings important capabilities
to the editing system, especially
for small to midsize video teams,
for whom traditional MAM systems
may be unaffordable or too
complex.

MediaPower AirGo BR
ITA: MediaPower has released a
new model of its AirGo ingest and
playout system.
AirGo BR is powered by industryproven Dalet Brio platform.
It is IP-ready and supports a wide
range of software codecs ensuring
broad interoperability.
It also offers an optional embedded
Cube 3D advanced graphics engine.
Apart from a tight integration with
Dalet systems, AirGo BR can also
be controlled using VDCP, BVW, or
its API protocol.

Harmonic Launches
MediaGrid 4000
H

armonic has announced the
release of its next-generation
MediaGrid 4000 shared storage
solution.
The high-performance scale-out
storage system increases storage
density to 24 6TB drives in a 4RU
chassis, and claims to deliver the
performance of a Fibre Channel
storage area network (SAN) with the
simplicity and scalability of Ethernetbased network-attached storage (NAS).
"With the increased performance
and density of the Harmonic MediaGrid
4000, a facility can truly deploy
one storage platform to support the
entire production workflow," said Bart
Spriester, Senior Vice President, Video
Products at Harmonic. "Specifically
built to support media applications,

reduce the costs of storage
management and optimise video
production workflows, the MediaGrid
4000 can handle everything from
compressed workflows to online digital
libraries and uncompressed video.
Flexible scaling of both bandwidth and
capacity enables users to immediately
take advantage of their storage
investment, and to build on it as their

workflow demands evolve."
Capable of supporting every stage
in diverse media workflows, including
production of live sports, news and
entertainment in HD and 4K/Ultra HD,
the Harmonic MediaGrid 4000 system
enables superior workflow efficiency
and productivity through storage
consolidation and on-the-fly scaling of
capacity and bandwidth.

Harmonic MediaGrid 4000

Forscene Added To Microsoft Azure
F

orbidden
Technologies
has
announced the release of a
completely virtual video postproduction solution with the addition
of professional video editing software,
Forscene's Edge Server to the Microsoft
Azure Marketplace.
"With more than 57% of Fortune 500
companies relying on Microsoft Azure

Forscene demonstrating a virtual workflow

including blue chip broadcast, sports
and news clients, the Microsoft Azure
Marketplace has fantastic commercial
potential for Forscene," said Jason
Cowan, Business Development Director
at Forbidden. "We look forward to
working with Microsoft to make the
most of this opportunity."
Nicole Herskowitz, Senior Director

of Product Marketing, Microsoft
Azure, Microsoft Corp, said: "The
addition of Forscene to the Microsoft
Azure Marketplace will help maximise
application performance, and offer
customers added choice and flexibility
in how they build their cloud strategies
over the next several years."
Forscene's solution offers video
review, logging, editing, and publishing
entirely in the cloud and as SaaS
through a web browser.
The virtual Edge Server, now
available on the Azure Marketplace, is
an alternative to the physical hardware
ingest solution - enabling clients to
upload video footage to, and publish
full-resolution sequences from, their
Forscene accounts without the need
for any ingest hardware.
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