In Broadcast - September 2017 - 24
24 www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 9 | September 2017 InForm IBC 2017 Preview - Part II Part I of preview is accessible here Contributing Editor David Kirk continues his preview of the IBC2017 exhibition... T he biggest surprise in preparing this two-part preview of IBC2017 is the low profile currently being taken by 8K. NHK has that area largely to itself having commenced 7680 x 4320 pixel Super Hi-Vision test transmissions in August 2016. Outside Japan, the television industry is gradually warming to 3840 x 2160 pixel UHD and seems content to ignore any higher resolution for the present. NHK meanwhile has its eyes on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a catalyst. The deciding factors will be the price of Super Hi-Vision displays and consumer demand for 100-inch or larger display screens. Adobe will demonstrate updates to its Creative Cloud, allowing video content producers to collaborate via the Internet. Also on show will be enhanced tools for editing virtual reality content, generating graphics and animations, and refining audio. Antelope's Colibri is designed to eliminate interference between the flickering produced by most artificial lights when capturing video with high speed camera systems. FPGA-based, it comes in a 1U chassis and has presets for various flicker parameters. Adjustments can be performed via a five-button selector or via RS 485. Camera Corps Clarity 800-HD HFR camera picture quality in low bitrate environments, especially when combined with real-time adaptive bitrate control and Dejero's auto transport technology. BroaMan Route66 2U router Black Box will demonstrate a KVM and control room management application for its DKM and Agility, based on the ControlBridge control system. An auto-discovery procedure locates all transmitters and receivers in the KVM matrix. Each user can control all connectivity including switching any source to any receiver, changing KVM user access modes, creating preset configurations, and supporting individual user desktops. The GUI can be operated from a dedicated touch panel, from mobile devices and from laptops or desktop computers. BroaMan will introduce three 2U versions of its Route66 router. The Route66 platform now includes single channel non-blocking 40 x 40 router ports in three versions, all with directly accessible fibre SFP or SDI. Each router also includes fibre ports which can be used to access built-in CWDM or DWDM multiplexers. The first version offers fibre only with 40 hot-swappable bi-directional small form-factor pluggables. Version 2 will have 32 SFPs and 16 x SDI (eight in and eight out); Version 3 will have 24 SFPs and 32 SDI (16 in and 16 out). 3G, SDI, HD, 3G-SDI, ASI and MADI are supported. Power consumption is 10 to 40 watts. Camera Corps will demonstrate its new Clarity 800-HD miniature camera, designed to deliver real-time high frame rate SDI video into slowmotion servers such as the EVS LSM and Evertz DreamCatcher. Weighing 340g, the camera can capture HD at up to 480fps (8x real-time at 60p frame rate or 9.6x real-time at 50p). Finished in black and measuring 65 x 25 x 120 mm, the 800-HD incorporates a 7 megapixel Micro Four Thirds sensor and can be genlocked to incoming black and burst. Additional features include a positive-lock lens mount plus a global shutter with speeds of 1/60, 1/125, 1/500 and 1/1000 second. Sensitivity is 2000 lux at F11 aperture. Video can be output in 1080p, 1080i and 720 formats at 50 or 59.94 Hz. Power input is 12 volts DC. Christie's new DHD1075-GS and DWU1075-GS 10,000 ISO lumen laser phosphor projectors include features from the company's larger HS series, including grid-based warping and blending. Both projectors have two HDMI inputs and one HDMI loop out, DVI and 3GSDI. Dejero will introduce its EnGo Vehicle Mount Kit which is designed to enhance the RF performance of the Dejero EnGo mobile transmitter. The kit converts the EnGo into a rack-mounted encoder which can be quickly disconnected and placed in a backpack or mounted directly on a camera. Dejero will also demonstrate a new implementation of HEVC claimed to provide greatly improved DHD's XC2 AES67 Ravenna audioover-IP interface can be used for the company's complete line of routers and mixers. It can send and receive up to 32 AES67/Ravenna-compliant audio-over-IP streams. DiGiCo's SD12 digital audio console incorporates dual 15-inch touch screens and is the first in the SD range with built-in recording interfaces. The SD12 includes a DVI output for overviewing the console. The SD12 Lightbar is identical to that in the SD5 and SD7 consoles. Two assignable master faders plus dual DMI expansion slots are also provided. DTL's Buzz-USB can accommodate up to five video recording modules in its 1U chassis. Auto-sensing inputs allow an operator to record HD-SDI or SD-SDI with embedded audio directly to a USB drive. A looping HD/ SD-SDI output can be used to make up to five copies of the recording by interconnecting a digital video cable between each record channel. An X-Y router option can be used to select up to eight different signals to any USB. An internal H264 codec stores recordings as MP4 files. Bit rate is user-adjustable from the control GUI. DiGiCo SD12 offers built-in recording interfaces