In Broadcast - June 2016 - 6


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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 6 | June 2016

InNews
Eurovision Ups
Eutelsat Capacity
EUR: The European Broadcasting
Union (EBU), the premier
distributor of sports and news
content for the world's top
broadcast and media platforms,
and Eutelsat Communications,
have announced the signing of
capacity contracts on four Eutelsat
satellites. The capacity will be used
to carry live broadcast signals
of flagship events in the sports
calendar, including all major
European football championships
and this year's most popular
summer sports events.

Deal On U.S.
IABM Training
USA: Digital media training organisation Future Media Concepts
(FMC) has reached an agreement
to host IABM training courses at its
eight U.S. facilities.
FMC will host eight two-day IABM
classroom-based courses, including
IP and file-based workflows, audio
and video fundamentals, network
essentials, advanced networks,
introduction to broadcast technology, and understanding the broadcast and media industry.
FMC's connected classrooms allow
people to attend in person or to
link-up via an FMC centre, or from
their desk.

NDI Tops One Million
USA: NewTek has claimed that
Network Device Interface (NDI)
is in the hands of over 1,000,000
customers worldwide.
"NDI has already exceeded
our wildest expectations and
confirmed our belief that the
industry's transition to IP-based
workflows would happen sooner
than most people expected," said
Dr Andrew Cross, President and
CTO for NewTek.
NDI compliments and is already
integrated into other IP standards
like ASPEN and SMPTE 2022 that
rely on 10GbE for the high-end
broadcast tier.

Seven Lawo
Consoles For
Sky Fleet
L

awo will supply seven mc²36 live
broadcast audio mixing consoles
to Sky Germany's SNG fleet for use
in sports news HD and live sports
production.
"We have chosen Lawo mixing
consoles to prepare ourselves for
future developments like remote
production, closer networking with
Sky Sport News Headquarters, and
further optimisation of workflows,"
said
Alessandro
Reitano,
Vice
President Sports Production at Sky
Germany. "Furthermore, the number
of Lawo-experienced operators in the
OB and SNG industry is pretty high,
and general familiarity with Lawo
consoles is widespread. With Lawo, it is

significantly easier to
adapt and implement
interfaces for existing
workflow processes
within the Sky Sport
News division."
The Lawo consoles
are
identically
configured
with
16 faders, 192 DSP
channels
and
a
routing
capacity
of 512 x 512
Beth Fairweather (News Operation Center Engineer, Sky),
Alessandro Reitano (VP Sports Production, Sky),
crosspoints.
Rainer Litfin (Senior Sales Manager DACH, Lawo),
The SNGs are
Andreas Wolf (Director Central Procurement, Sky),
currently being Christian Struck (Senior Product Manager Audio Production, Lawo).
built in the UK with interior fitting July, with the first production due in
of the vehicles due to start in mid- January 2017.

BBright Focuses On Playout
B

Bright has continued its incursion
in the UHD playback market by
introducing the cost-effective UHD24/7 quad 3G-SDI playout server.
Guillaume Arthuis, CEO of BBright
said: "The UHD-Play playback server
gained a wide and international
market acceptance in 2015, and I
now want to position BBright as a
recognised vendor of software-based
servers to be used 24/7 in production
infrastructures such as playout headends. Ultra HD with HDR represents
today the next significant trend for the

entire video industry."
The French company has already
won significant market shares in
Europe, North America and Asia with
its UHD-Play video file player.
Following this commercial success,
BBright has moved on to the next step
with the introduction of a 24/7 playout
server dedicated to be used in Ultra
HD channels head-ends.
The new UHD-24/7 features quad
3G-SDI outputs, Level A / B (both in
QFHD and 2-Sample Interleaved pixel
modes).

Several 4K / UHD pivot file formats,
such as XAVC, H.265, H.264, are
accepted at file ingest. Full-HD
progressive files can be up-scaled in
real-time for Ultra HD playout. HDR
schemes are natively supported with
PQ10 and HLG compatibility.
A playout event scheduler allows for
complete linear channel scheduling
(including BXF traffic file import).
Dolby audio stream pass-through (up
to AC-4), multiple logos insertion and
workflow automation.
BBright UHD-24/7 quad 3G-SDI
playout server
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