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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 10 | October 2017

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Pixel Power Boosts
Automated Workﬂows

USA: Pixel Power will demonstrate
productivity and cost beneﬁts
on both the East and West
Coasts of America at NAB
Show New York and SMPTE
Annual Technical Conference
& Exhibition, Hollywood. The
ﬂexible Pixel Power architecture
uses two core technology
frameworks StreamMaster Media
Processing and Gallium Workﬂow
Orchestration to create the
operations required.
This approach allows users to
easily create complex systems
that solve real issues and speed
productivity
by
eliminating
repetitive, manual tasks.

Jones To Deliver
Heyser Lecture

USA: Leslie Ann Jones of Skywalker
Sound will deliver the Heyser
Memorial Lecture at the AES New
York Convention.
Francis Rumsey, AES Technical
Council Chair, said the lecture,
titled Paying Attention, promises
to take attendees on a "fascinating,
educational and inspirational
retrospective of the sessions
leading to her vast discography
and ﬁlmography".
The Heyser Memorial Lecture,
which is open to all convention
attendees, will take place on
October 18, from 6:00pm to
7:30pm.

Leader Europe
Formed

EUR / JPN: Leader Electronics
Corporation recently announced
the formation of Leader Europe
Limited as a dedicated business
platform for the European region.
Leader has operated a UK
representative ofﬁce in London
since 2014, managed by Koichi
Fukagawa and (from August 2015)
Kevin Salvidge, both of whom will
continue to develop the European
market for Leader.
The Leader Europe Limited ofﬁce
is located at First Central 200 in
London's Park Royal.

Motorsport.tv Links With
Tata Communications

M

otorsport.tv
has
partnered with Tata
Communications to power
the international growth
of the network's internet
television platforms.
Tata Communications will
harness its global reach,
media capabilities and
motorsports expertise to
bring the latest updates
from major motorsport
events
seamlessly
to
Motorsport.tv viewers.
"We have a strong track record of
enabling sports organisations to create
more powerful and immersive viewing
experiences through technology,"
said Brian Morris, Vice President
and General Manager of Media &
Entertainment Services at Tata
Communications.

Motorsport.tv
has
enjoyed dramatic growth
in 2017, with the "voices
of Formula 1®" James Allen
and Peter Windsor joining
the team earlier this year.
The
television
and
online broadcaster is part
of Motorsport Network
which now attracts more
than 172 million page
views per month across
28 global editions in 81
countries with 17 different

"As the ofﬁcial connectivity provider
for Formula 1® and the exclusive video
distribution partner for MotoGP™,
we're laying the foundations for
digital transformation in motorsports
- and our work with Motorsport.tv
and Motorsport Network is a natural
extension of that."

languages.
Tata Communications will become
Motorsport Network's CDN.
The company's video and CDN
capabilities are underpinned by its
global superfast network, which
ensures a high-quality viewing
experience for motorsport fans.

Casablanca Online Selects
ATEME Kyrion Solution
C

- another reason we were so keen to
work alongside them. The company's
Kyrion solutions meet market demand
in terms of latency, modulation and
bandwidth savings: HEVC encoding
technology paired with DVB-S2x
provides efﬁciency savings of 50%.
We are now able to take advantage of
better video compression with far less
bandwidth, while also improving the
video quality in terms of resolution,
contrast and colour."
Based on ATEME's ﬁfth generation
STREAM compression engine, the
Kyrion encoder/decoder provides
the best baseband video quality at
minimum bitrates. This solution has
been designed for contribution over
satellite and IP networks, with added
value features such as ultra-fast-boot,
ultra-low latency, and ABR output.

asablanca Online, the biggest
video service provider for live
broadcasting in Brazil, has upgraded
its DSNG ﬂeet with ATEME's Kyrion
encoders and decoders.
A long-time user of ATEME's
technology, Casablanca Online placed
its trust in the leader of video delivery
infrastructure to offer the most

advanced contribution solutions -
including HEVC encoding technology as
part of the DSNG ﬂeet - to its national
and international customers.
Alex Pimentel, General Manager
at Casablanca Online, said: "ATEME
currently offers the most advanced
implementations of the MPEG-2, MPEG4 AVC/H.264 and HEVC/H.265 codecs
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