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Antel, Globosat, izzi, ORF, SBS, Telemundo Deportes powered by NBC Sports’ Playmaker Media, and TV Azteca Enhance Live Streaming with Features such as 4K HDR, Ad Personalization, and End-to-end Cloud Video Delivery Portland, Oregon, USA – Sept. 18, 2018 – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that leading national broadcast rights holders, pay TV providers, and sports programmers used AWS, including AWS Elemental Media Services, to power live streamed experiences as an estimated 3.4 billion people watched the 2018 football tournament that concluded earlier this summer. AWS Elemental solutions were also used in the central equipment room ...

Ooyala and LOGIC Partner to Streamline Video Operations for Network Co-Owned by Disney and German Media Giant RTL Ooyala is streamlining video operations for SUPER RTL, a joint venture of RTL Group and Disney, with the Ooyala Flex Media Platform — a video  content supply chain solution being used by innovative content owners worldwide to simplify millions of video workflows. Ooyala’s flexible and configurable content supply chain optimization platform automates tasks, simplifies workflows and speeds up the time-to-market for content creators and distributors. Ooyala is delivering an end-to-end solution with Germany-based LOGIC media solutions GmbH, built using Microsoft Azure Media ...

Ooyala Among First Media-Technology Firms to Provide Support for Important SMPTE-Developed Standard Across All Stages of Content Value Chain  Ooyala will provide extended support for the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) with the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, Ooyala’s flexible and configurable content supply chain optimization platform that automates tasks, simplifies workflows and speeds up the time-to-market for content creators and distributors. With IMF support, customers of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform — the world’s fastest growing media asset management and workflow automation solution being used by the world’s most innovative content owners to simplify millions of video workflows — can significantly ...

  Alliance Powers New One-Stop Solution to Get Content onto Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, YouTube and Other Platforms Easily, Meeting All Regional Requirements ODMedia Signs up for Ooyala Flex Media Platform to Streamline Operations Ooyala has collaborated with the ODMedia Group on a new strategic partnership, integrating ODMedia’s video localization and delivery capabilities with Ooyala’s video production, management, distribution and monetization services. The strategic partnership is a major step in helping content owners reach global audiences and markets realizing new revenues more quickly. The combination of Ooyala’s Flex Media Platform and ODMedia Group’s established position as preferred delivery partner with most ...

DPA Microphones’ philosophy of getting closer to dealers and customers has paid dividends in Germany where its new dedicated sales team and reorganized partner structure is achieving results that have exceeded the company’s initial expectations by far. The new company structure and the introduction of new products such as DPA’s CORE by DPA amplifier technology has led to this very positive reaction from the German market. To consolidate this success, DPA has launched a dedicated German website – www.dpamicrophones.de – that addresses this important market in its native language and focuses on news, new product information, case studies and local ...

Director of the library’s music department will take part in an on-the-spot competition to find the perfect track. SANTA MONICA, Calif.—  Mark Rome, Director of the Music Department at Killer Tracks, will put his wide-ranging musical knowledge to the test in a Battle of the Music Directors event at next month’s PMA’s Production Music Conference in Hollywood. Rome will compete with music directors from other libraries to fill a brief provided by veteran music supervisors Maggie Phillips and Jason Markey. The directors will have just five minutes to prepare playlists and present them in front of a live audience. After ...

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, is partnering with Viaccess-Orca to provide audiences with an ultra-low latency live streaming solution which they are showcasing at this year’s IBC.   The collaboration will see Anevia provide the encoder side of the solution, while Viaccess-Orca, a leading global solutions provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, part of the Orange Group, will be supplying the secure video player.   The combination of Anevia and Viaccess-Orca software has been optimised and integrated to reduce latency and allow streaming at as close to real time ...

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, has partnered with Red Bee Media to deliver low latency managed OTT services that enable any company, no matter their content or audience, to launch their own OTT channel within minutes. Anevia’s Genova Live software video encoder is a key part of Red Bee Media’s modular OTT platform, built on a microservices architecture that is operated in the Cloud to provide both flexibility and scalability. The solution was one of the first deployments of a Dockerized OTT video streaming services for live events and was used when Red Bee Media ...

Video Clarity ClearView 9.0 Now With NIQE No-Reference Metric Making its European debut at IBC2018 is ClearView 9.0, the latest software release for Video Clarity’s ClearView line of video quality analyzers. Driven by customer input, version 9.0 provides several new features that help day-to-day users save time and get more utility from their existing ClearView systems. One major update is NIQE, a new high-performance, no-reference metric that provides accurate quality measurement when a source reference is not available — as is often the case in today’s cloud-based delivery workflows. Other new features include 12-bit video image support for file import, ...

Gearhouse Broadcast, the Gravity Media-owned supplier of technical facilities, crew and services used to capture the world’s most watched content, has purchased more UHD and IP-ready Grass Valley LDX 86N cameras for its German business. They will be used by Gearhouse Broadcast Germany, previously known as Genesis Broadcast Services before it was acquired and rebranded by Gearhouse Broadcast’s parent company Gravity Media Group in March this year. The purchase further cements Gearhouse’s position as a supplier of UHD and IP-ready equipment. This is the second wave of Grass Valley cameras that Gearhouse Broadcast Germany has purchased this year, with the ...

In direct response to feedback from the theatre, film and television industries, DPA Microphones is adding to its d:screet™ and d:fine™ ranges by introducing its smallest ever high end pro audio microphone capsule. Launching in September 2018, the d:screet CORE 6060 and 6061 Subminiature Microphones and the d:fine CORE 6066 Subminiature Headset Microphone are just three millimetres in diameter – two millimetres smaller than DPA’s existing 4000 series of miniature microphone products. While they may be small, they pack a powerful punch in terms of performance as all three incorporate the company’s recently launched CORE by DPA microphone technology that ...

Broadcast infrastructure specialist Axon Digital Design has announced today that Euro Media Group (EMG), a leading provider of broadcasting and audio-visual services, has adopted Neuron, Axon’s new Network Attached Processor, in its strategic move towards harmonized IP media production. The deal – signed during the public launch of Neuron at IBC 2018 – will see ten NAP systems deployed by EMG’s Dutch entity United to manage IP signal processing and provide SDI to IP gateways in new OB trucks set for rollout in 2019. Neuron, the world’s first Network Attached Processor (NAP), is Axon’s next generation of signal processing designed ...

Gearhouse Broadcast, the Gravity Media-owned supplier of technical facilities, crew and services used to capture the world’s most watched content, is upgrading its fleet of Flyaways to be IP-ready. This means that Gearhouse’s customers will be able to use its portable production solutions with either an SDI, IP or hybrid backbone, whichever set-up they prefer for a particular job. To facilitate this upgrade, Gearhouse has invested in IQUCP25 and IQUCP50 edge cards and MV-820-IP multiviewers from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, as well as Cisco’s Nexus 9000 switch fabric. The Cisco investment was made through workflow specialists, Magenta Broadcast. Pete ...

HUDSON, MA (September 14, 2018) –  Facilis (IBC Booth 7.C14), a leading international supplier of cost-effective, high performance shared storage solutions for collaborative media production networks, today announced that Israel-based system integrator and software developer, ProVision  has qualified V3 of its InVision multi-ingest solution with the Facilis Shared Storage System. Targeted specifically for the demands of multi-camera production, Invision V3 now records/encodes HD/SD formats directly to the Facilis Shared File System volumes over IP using the SMPTE 2022-6/7 standard. IBC attendees will be able to see a demonstration of ProVision’s Invision on the Facilis stand. As IP-based video solutions continue ...

This November will see cricket broadcast to Australian audiences for the first time on Foxtel’s new dedicated UHD channel. As the technical partner for this programming, NEP Australia will deploy more than 20 new live production servers from EVS, the leading provider of live production solutions. Eighteen XT-VIA and four XS-VIA servers will be delivered to power the live production of the premium UHD-4K matches for the channel that feature every men’s Test match in Australia as well as One Day Internationals, T20 matches and selected Big Bash League games. These EVS servers will be deployed in four of NEP Australia’s mobile ...

STAND 7.C55, IBC2018, RAI, AMSTERDAM:Boxer Systems today announced a new partnership with Masstech Innovations Inc., the future-led technology company that provides the media and entertainment (M&E) industry with optimised content storage management solutions for managing the lifecycle of valuable media assets. Boxer Systems Managing Director Mike Heaney explained, “Masstech provides the next-generation media lifecycle management solutions, coupled with world-class support, that our customers need. We are delighted to announce this strategic partnership, which will align our respective depths of experience to the ultimate benefit of customers in the UK.” Boxer will represent the industry’s flagship storage and workflow management solutions, FlashNet ...

Cinegy, the global leader for broadcast playout software for the cloud, has announced today that it helped its partner Globecast launch the UK’s first dedicated UHD/4K entertainment channel. Cinegy’s broadcast playout engine, Cinegy Air PRO, is used to allow the building of the “Channel in the Cloud” clearly showing the benefits of cloud technologies in being able to launch a complete service in a fraction of the time it would have taken traditionally. Ian Redgewell, Head of Media Management, Globecast, said, “If we weren’t cloud-based, we would have had a very hard time achieving this in the short amount of ...

September 13, 2018   Tangerine Global deploys end-to-end cloud-based MediaKind Solution to enhance OTT TV experiences Tangerine Global’s CITRUS® turn-key solution enables Mediaroom customers to benefit from agile, innovative and economic advantages of cloud technologies CITRUS is based on MediaKind’s MediaFirst SaaS TV service, a member of the Orion family of solutions that forms part of the wider MediaKind Universe portfolio Enables small and mid-sized Pay TV operators to deliver fast-to-market immersive OTT experiences MediaKind, a global media entertainment technology leader, today announces that it is strengthening its collaboration with entertainment services provider, Tangerine Global, by enhancing their ‘CITRUS’ managed ...