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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 9 | September 2017

InNews
Joint EVS / Tedial
Solution Success
ESP / BEL: Tedial and EVS
have announced a technology
partnership that will create a bidirectional link between EVS' live
production asset management
suite, IPDirector, and Tedial's
enterprise MAM system, Evolution.
It enables live content created
in the EVS environment to be
automatically added to archive
workflows managed by Tedial
systems.
The partnership announcement
comes as ITV Sport and Kuwait TV,
become the first users to adopt the
joint solution.

BBright
Multichannel
Playout Solution
FRA / NED: At IBC, BBright will be
introducing its second generation
of transport stream playout
solution with multiple programme
delivery in a single box necessary
for cost-effective linear broadcast
or IPTV head-ends.
BBright CEO, Guillaume Arthuis
said: "Listening to the requests
of our main customers, we are
now introducing a multi stream
TS playout solution, again fully
software-based on pure CPU,
and that will be ported soon onto
Virtual Machine and into the
Cloud."

Qligent Spots
Lip-Sync Errors
USA / NED: Qligent will unveil and
demonstrate its Qligent Vision A/V
Sync Detection capability at IBC.
A new feature within the Qligent
Vision's Match module, A/V Sync
Detection provides an automated,
software-based way to spot A/V
sync (or lip-sync) problems that
may have occurred.
It works by comparing the audio
portion of downstream video
with its original "known good
reference" to determine if the A/V
is in sync, or if it has drifted out of
sync.

Partner Communications'
Multiscreen TV

P

artner
Communications
has
launched a new TV service called
Partner TV on 4K Android TV set-top
boxes, smartphones, and tablet devices
using Broadpeak solutions.
Partner
Communications
is
delivering a mix of live, VOD, catch-up,
time-shift, and cloud PVR TV content
to its subscribers.
Through Broadpeak's BkS350 and
BkS400 video servers, BkM100 video
delivery manager, and BkA100 video
delivery analytics, the communications
operator can ensure a superior quality
of experience (QoE) for subscribers

anytime, anywhere, and on every
screen.
"Video consumption is evolving.
Today's consumers want to watch
high-quality video content everywhere,
from TV sets in the living room to
connected devices on the go. We
knew that when launching our first
TV offering, we needed to meet those
requirements," said Raz Bartov, VP
of Technologies and IT at Partner
Communications.
"Broadpeak provides us with a
complete TV everywhere solution,
encompassing origin and streaming

servers, CDN management, and
analytics, with support for all video
formats and devices. Thanks to
Broadpeak, we can easily measure
the quality of experience that
subscribers are receiving, monitor the
popularity of content based on usage
patterns, and make quality of service
improvements when necessary."
Currently, Partner TV can support
more than 50,000 live concurrent
streaming sessions using Broadpeak
solutions.

Net Gains For Perform Group
With Ross Video
F

ollowing the award of a ten-year
deal to manage content for the
Women's Tennis Association (WTA),
Perform Group built a playout facility
in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
Ross Video and UK Diamond Partners
WTS worked on equipping the facility.

The fully operational facility
includes a Ross Video Carbonite Black
production switcher, Abekas replay
server, Ultrix routing platform and
several customised DashBoard control
interfaces.
Paul Quinn, Operations Manager at

Perform, said: "The deal with the WTA
is the largest contract in women's
sport that has ever been signed. The
main aim of this facility is to deliver
the best quality product for WTA
Media; we take in the pictures from
almost all of the WTA events globally,
quality check them, add commentary
and distribute them to the relevant
broadcast partners.
"Our operators need products that
are intuitive, easy to use and tailored
to their needs so they can concentrate
on the images in front of them on
screen. We're very pleased with the
products we procured from WTS and
Ross - everything has worked exactly
as needed".
Oscar Juste, Ross Video's Director of
Sales for EMEA said that WTS and Ross
had spent a lot of time understanding
Perform's creative, technical and
business needs.
Perform Group's WTA facility
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