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Dejero Live
Facebook Video
CAN: Dejero has announced the
ability to stream from Dejero
mobile transmitters and apps to
Facebook Live. Dejero's solution
provides broadcasters, such as
Rogers Media, a simple way to
stream high quality live video to
their Facebook audience.
Cloud-based technology enables
broadcasters to reach new
audiences that tend to view
content away from traditional
broadcast channels with original
and supplemental content.
It also enables broadcasters to
more easily interact with and
respond to their live viewers.

Tanana Valley
Selects GatesAir
USA: Tanana Valley Television
and Radio, which owns DTV and
FM radio stations in Alaska,
has chosen GatesAir as its
exclusive supplier for over-theair transmitters, IP networking
systems and on-air studio consoles
for its local and remote broadcast
facilities. Since installation of
Maxiva DTV and Flexiva FM radio
transmitters, GatesAir claims that
its PowerSmart technology has
helped Tanana Valley Television
Company reduce the costs of its RF
operation.

Digicel Selects
Agama Solution
SWE: Agama Technologies, a
specialist in video service quality
and
customer
experience,
has announced that Digicel
Group, a Jamaica-based global
telecommunications provider, has
selected Agama to provide its endto-end DTV monitoring solution.
This solution covers the complete
end-to-end hybrid IP/cable TV and
OTT service distribution for linear
and VoD services.
It will enable Digicel to efficiently
manage and operate its video
services as these are rolled out
across multiple markets.

Cinépolis Uses
Elemental Cloud From
AWS OTT Service

T

he Cinépolis KLIC
transactional
video
on-demand (TVOD) service
is using an integrated
solution from Elemental
and Amazon Web Services
(AWS), an Amazon.com
company.
Cinépolis KLIC employs
the cloud platform to tap
into Mexico's over-thetop (OTT) TV and multiscreen market
- which is the fastest growing in Latin
America with five million VOD OTT
subscribers forecasted by the end of
2015 by research firm Dataxis.
"With Cinépolis KLIC, we are leading
a new era of premium multiscreen and
OTT content delivery in Mexico and

market and avoiding large
capital expenditures."
The integrated AWS and
Elemental solution enables
Cinépolis KLIC to create
a true TV Everywhere
platform
with
movie
delivery to customers on
a full range of connected
devices.
Cinépolis
KLIC
uses
The Cinépolis KLIC user interface Elemental Cloud to process
across Latin America," said Marco de source content from studios.
la Cruz, Deputy Director of Cinépolis
This content is stored in Amazon S3
KLIC. "By leveraging the flexibility and and delivered securely via the Amazon
scalability of Elemental Cloud, we can CloudFront content delivery network.
offer rich services without building
Elemental software-defined video
a dedicated infrastructure while solutions transcode video content for
simultaneously accelerating time-to- multi-protocol, multi-DRM delivery.

Hitachi Shows HDR Broadcast Cameras
H
itachi Kokusai Electric America has
announced the addition of HDR
imaging capability to its UHD 4K and
HDTV broadcast cameras.
Showgoers at the recent Telemundo
Cine Video Television Expo in Mexico
City saw demonstrations of select HDRupgraded Hitachi cameras - including
the Hitachi Z-Series, SK-Series and DKSeries product lines.
"We're excited to offer High Dynamic
Range capability on our UHD and
HDTV broadcast cameras because
we're confident that TV viewers will
appreciate the increased contrast,
richer colour and dynamic lighting
of the video it captures," said Sean

Moran, Vice President of Sales for
Hitachi Broadcast & Professional
Products.
"With the way we've designed and
implemented HDR in our cameras,
broadcasters
and
other
video
professionals
will
be able to produce
significantly superior
HDR imagery without
having to upgrade their
existing infrastructure or
transmission systems," Moran
added. "HDR - which
will be part of the
emerging ATSC 3.0
standard - produces

brighter, crisper, more luminous
imagery, including UHD 4K video,
resulting in a more immersive and
engaging viewer experience."
HDR has been added to the Hitachi
SK-UHD4000 UHD studio/field camera
and the Hitachi Z-HD6000 HDTV
studio/field production cameras
system.

Hitachi Z HD6000
in EFP configuration
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