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Appointments
Ikegami Names Hill As
UK General Manager
GBR: Ikegami has appointed Kris
Hill as the General Manager in its
UK office.
Hill will be responsible for heading
up the UK operations as well
as managing all key customer
accounts, system integrators and
Ikegami channel partners across
the UK, Ireland and Africa.
Hill, a key industry figure with
a vast knowledge of products
focused in acquisition, monitoring
and production during his
five years at JVC Professional
Europe Ltd as UK & Ireland
Sales Manager, went on to
hold sales roles at TVU
Networks, Vitec Videocom
and
Fineline
Media
Finance.
Hill will be taking over
from Ikegami UK's
previous General
Manager,
Mark
Capstick.

SAM Appoints Russia
Sales Manager
RUS: SAM has appointed Anton
Doyneko as its new Sales Manager
for Russia and its neighbouring
countries.
Doyneko will be responsible for
expanding the customer base
in the region, developing sales
strategies and projecting the full
benefits of the SAM product range.
Doyneko joins SAM from Annik-TV
(Russian SI and Distributor) where
he held the title of Commercial
Director, working with Tektronix,
Sony, and Evertz to drive
sales.
Prior
to
this,
Anton held several
managerial roles based
in Russia, and was
responsible for driving
the growth of Snell
and Grass Valley
business.

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SiTV Improves
Distribution With
BATON QC
I

nterra Systems has announced
that SiTV, a branch of Shanghai
Media Group (SMG), one of China's
largest media conglomerates, has
installed Interra Systems' BATON, an
automated, file-based QC solution to
enhance the accuracy and speed of its
QC operations.
"SiTV-SMG has over 20 channels
and we also provide several hours of
programming to other TV stations,
IPTV, cable, and OTT operators. Given
the various distribution methods we
deal with, efficiency is critical during
the QC process as is the capability to
perform checks for our current MXF

OP1a and MPEG-2
Transport Stream
formats,
with
future expansion
into
the
OTT
environment,"
said Mr Chen, Vice
President of SiTV, a branch of SMG.
"We were delighted with the results
of the BATON QC system, which is
highly flexible, reliable, and even
provides QC reports in the Chinese
language. BATON is hardware and OS
independent, allowing us to quickly
scale to accommodate the increasing
size of our asset library, ensuring

Interra BATON QC deployed at SiTV

exceptional content quality, at all
times, for viewers."
SiTV is currently using BATON to
perform content quality checks for
its cable and satellite TV networks,
subscription-based digital pay TV
channels, as well as production of
films, animation, and documentaries.

SMPTE ETCA Conference Success
W

ith its Entertainment Technology consumers, and this is one reason Dolby Laboratories.
in the Connected Age (ETCA) this year's event attracted so many
IN all, 63 experts from companies
conference, the Society of Motion first-time attendees," said ETCA across the media and entertainment
Picture and Television Engineers 2016 Program Committee Chair Pat sector spoke in 28 sessions.
(SMPTE), brought the industry greater Griffis, who is also SMPTE Education
Renamed this year to reflect the
clarity on the technologies and tactics Vice President and Vice President of increased importance of connectivity
shaping the connected entertainment Technology in the Office of the CTO at - ETCA 2016 focused on internetexperience.
delivered content as a
Held recently at the
primary driver of content
Heritage
Theatre
in
consumption across fixed
Campbell, California, the
and mobile devices.
conference drew experts
The Society's flagship
from both Hollywood and
event,
the
SMPTE
the Silicon Valley.
2016
Annual
Technical
"ETCA is unique in that
Conference & Exhibition
it bridges the traditional
(SMPTE 2016), will take
divide
between
the
place in October following
content creators and the
the SMPTE 2016 Symposium
technologists who bring Annie Chang and Matthew Goldman participate in HDR: The Silver and will conclude with the
entertainment content to Bullet for Connected Content? panel at ETCA 2016.
SMPTE Centennial Gala.

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