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OCTOPUS Newsroom Version 8
& Mobile App
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CTOPUS Newsroom, a globally
active producer of television
broadcast newsroom automation
systems, introduced Octopus 8 at
BroadcastAsia2016.
Octopus 8 gives administrators the
ability to assign users to create content
for social media. Tweets and Facebook
posts are treated like any other news
story with team managers able to
assign and share tasks, and to approve
posts before they go live. Journalists
can now follow Twitter trends and
track topics of particular interest to
them across the social network in
real time. The research process is
now automated, giving teams instant
information and analyses trends over
time. Editors can tweet, reply, re-tweet
or favourite directly from Octopus
as well as manage the channel's
relationships by following or blocking
Twitter users.
With
audiences
increasingly
using the Internet for their news,

media organisations are under
ever increasing pressure to publish
stories to the web. Octopus 8 directly
interconnects with CMS systems such
as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and Core
Media, allowing scripts and articles
to be uploaded dynamically to web
portals. This new web component
enables TV news editors to upload
pages directly, saving time and
reducing the workload on
web managers. Another
new feature is the ability
to publish social media
posts directly from the
rundown.
Also
making
its
BroadcastAsia
debut,
the new Octopus Mobile
App offers journalists
full news production
capabilities on tablets
and
mobile
phones
running
Apple
iOS
or
Google
Android.

Reporters and editors working
remotely gain instant access to all
wires, rundowns and assignments.
They can also edit stories within a
rundown, preview prompter text
as well as create wires and reports
in the field. The new app supports
both Octopus 8 and the most recent
versions of Octopus 7.
OCTOPUS
Newsroom
recently
extended its international business
development and technical support
presence with the establishment of a
regional office in Thailand. Staff on site

include Miro Rusko (APAC Director)
and Ermias Amare (Senior Support
Engineer & Team Leader).
"This new resource confirms our
strategy of getting closer to our
customers, whether for pre-sales
information and demonstrations,
engineering and operational issues
or post-sale advice," Miro Rusko
said. "The aim of this investment is
to increase the quality of our existing
24/7 support capability. We will
now be able to respond to customer
requests within, or at least nearer,
their national time zones
rather than expecting
them to think in terms of
European time. Our focus
will be on the entire south
east Asia region, working
faster and on a more
personal basis. This will
help particularly in the
area of proof-of-concept
tender fulfilment where
documentation needs to
be processed quickly."
Octopus Newsroom interface

Domo Broadcast Introduces
SOLO7-OBTx At Broadcast Asia
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Domo Broadcast SOLO7-OBTx
camera-back transmitter

Software
Defined Radio

t BroadcastAsia2016, Domo
Broadcast (formerly Cobham
TCS) introduced the SOLO7-OBTx, a
modular, feature packed camera-back
transmitter, and featured the SOLO8
SDR (Software-Defined Radio) to the
Asia Pacific market.
Domo Broadcast Sales Manager
(APAC), Sue Gilks said: "The SOLO7
OBTx and SOLO8 SDR are two of the
most exciting products we've ever
introduced."
The SOLO7-OBTx is a new, ultra-small
camera-back transmitter that features
1080p60 and 4:2:2 with integrated
camera control. It includes swappable
RF modules (340MHz - 8.6GHz) and
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding.
The transmitter's superior latency can
reach an ultra-low 10ms. Moreover,
the unit's exceptionally low power
consumption provides plenty of scope
for extended field performance.
Also featured at BroadcastAsia was
the SOLO8 SDR, a dual-input HD-SDI

COFDM and IP mesh transmitter that
includes integral video analytics,
recording, and IP streaming. Because
IP Mesh is self-forming, and selfhealing, it constantly readjusts to find
the best route to send high-quality
data between nodes in environments
typically too difficult for most RF
solutions.
The transmitter includes 128GB
of internal video storage; USB and
Ethernet I/O interfaces; an integrated
ISM band telemetry modem; and an
integral, battery backed, real-time
clock for time and date stamp.
The underlying platform of the
SOLO8 SDR is the cornerstone of
Domo's next generation of wireless
broadcast products. Its ultra-small
form factor, coupled with an ability to
change functionality almost instantly
to suit a variety of requirements,
significantly reduces the amount of
equipment needed to be carried into
the field.
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