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

InNews
Integrated Secure
Storage Solution

GBR / USA: Object Matrix and
Spectra Logic have announced an
integrated and holistic storage
solution across multiple storage
tiers, whilst ensuring the security
and integrity of the content
within storage. The joint solution
combines Object Matrix's Digital
Content Governance Platform,
MatrixStore with the Spectra
BlackPearl Converged Storage
System. It ensures organisations
have access to their content
immediately as required and
without delay. Content is more
easily accessed, but is also secure
and protected within this platform.

Riedel Eurovision
Broadcast Infrastructure

GER: For the 12th consecutive
year, Riedel played a starring role
in the Eurovision Song Contest,
the
world's
longest-running
international television song
competition. Riedel's MediorNet
real-time media network provided
the redundant and decentralised
signal routing and transport
infrastructure from start to finish
of the production, broadcast live
from the International Exhibition
Centre in Kiev, Ukraine.
Riedel's Bolero wireless intercom
system was relied on for all crew
communications, only six weeks
after it was introduced to the
market.

AirBox Neo Boosts
SLAM!TV Output
NED / GER: PlayBox Technology
is delivering scheduling, titling
and automated playout system
for Netherlands-based broadcast
channel SLAM!TV.
"AirBox Neo, TitleBox Neo and
ListBox Neo will form the central
elements of a state-of-the-art
transmission solution at the
studios of SLAM!TV's parent
company, Radiocorp BV," said
Alex Vermeulen, Senior Systems
Engineer at PlayBox Technology
partner company Digital &
Media Solutions. The company
coordinated the installation as part
of a major upgrade to 1080i HD.

VER Invests In
MediorNet Solutions
V

ER, a leading supplier of
equipment and technical
expertise
for
television,
cinema, live music, sports,
and corporate production,
has invested in an array of
products from the Riedel
MediorNet real-time media
network family.
Products including the MetroN core
router, MicroN 80G media distribution
network device, and MediorNet
Compact Pro frames will support
VER's rich offering of broadcast and
production services.
"Riedel's MediorNet family gives
us the reliable performance and
versatile signal routing and transport
capabilities that are essential to the
success of extraordinary projects

Riedel MetroN core router

and productions," said Jeff Werner,
Director of Fibre Optics at VER.
With a 35-year history and offices
around the world, VER supports
more than 50 productions each day.
The company is known for offering
a great depth and breadth of rental
equipment, as well as expertise in
audio, video, lighting, LED, camera,
rigging, media servers, fibre, and other
aspects of production. Its services

include
multicamera
production,
broadcasting,
creative
screens
control, enhanced environment, LED
installation, and video system services.
"The future for VER and the product
is exciting," said Jason Newman,
Business Development for Production
Support Services at VER. "We have
already identified it for use in major
events, festivals, award shows, and
broadcast environments."

EditShare Boosts Geevs X10
E

ditShare has updated its highperformance Geevs X10 broadcast
I/O solution.
Designed to seamlessly integrate
with EditShare Flow media asset
management, XStream EFS scale-out
shared storage and Ark archiving,
Geevs completes the EditShare endto-end workflow with extensive tools
to manage ingest, distribution and
station playout for programmes as well
as fast-turn for news and sports.
The hardware offers significant

speed improvements for managing
frame rates, complex codecs and
status graphic overlays.
The all-new Geevs X10 boasts a sleek
compact design and powerful multithreaded CPU, which can support
up to eight streams of AVC-intra in
1080i (4/4 configuration). The new
sleeker chassis features six-caddy
media RAID 6 drives for local storage
and is equipped with two high-speed
10Gbits/s network ports as a standard
configuration.

The accompanying Geevs V7
software update supports MOS channel
selection from the rundown as well
as support for multiple variations
of Apple ProRes including 1080p25,
29.97 and 30fps which complements
the existing 1080p50, 59.94 and 60fps
ProRes supported formats.
New templates allow capture and
playout of the recently popular AVC-i
50 MXF OP1a format.
Geevs Simple Delay has also been
reintroduced to support channel +1
playout, a feature that
facilitates one hour timeshift of a main service
channel.
Faster EditShare
GEEVS X10
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