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Riedel Communications Integrates MediorNet with Grass Valley Cameras

Published: September 20, 2012 at 12:18 pm | By: SVG Staff

Riedel Communications and Grass Valley revealed the new MediorNet interface card for integrating Grass Valley cameras into MediorNet fiber networks at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam.
The new MediorNet MN-GV-2 card allows the user to network Grass Valley 3G camera systems and base station including the LDK and the brand new LDX series via MediorNet. This [...]

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At IBC2012, Broadcast Waits for the Future To Become Clear

Published: September 19, 2012 at 1:43 pm | By: Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director

It has been a little less than two weeks since the sports-production community descended on Amsterdam for IBC2012, arguably the broadcast-technology conference that has the most-global feel: unlike the NAB Show, it isn’t dominated by khaki pants and polo shirts. Even better for attendees, it features more actual working prototypes than concepts.
But there was one [...]

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At IBC2012, broadcast waits for the future to become clear

Published: September 19, 2012 at 12:32 pm | By: Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director

It has been a little less than two weeks since the sport-production community descended on Amsterdam for IBC2012, arguably the broadcast-technology conference that has the most-global feel: unlike the NAB Show, it isn’t dominated by khaki pants and polo shirts. Even better for attendees, it features more actual working prototypes than concepts. But there was [...]

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TSL acquires mic specialist SoundField

Published: September 19, 2012 at 11:18 am | By: Kevin Hilton, European Correspondent

Audio monitor and processor manufacturer TSL Professional Products Limited (PPL) used IBC 2012 to confirm its acquisition of surround sound mic specialist SoundField, providing the basis for many 5.1 TV sport productions today. The deal extends TSL PPL’s 5.1 product range into microphones, which were displayed at the show alongside SoundField’s up and down-mixing systems. [...]

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Grass Valley refocuses on next-gen product design, IT flexibility

Published: September 18, 2012 at 9:19 am | By: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director

The Grass Valley stand at last week’s IBC in Amsterdam looked similar to the company’s most recent stands at major trade shows, most notably the green overtones and areas within the stand dedicated to specific product categories and workflows. But the old look was complemented by a new corporate philosophy that just became public in [...]

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Fraunhofer makes player tracking pitch at IBC

Published: September 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm | By: Kevin Hilton, European Correspondent

Broadcasters and pundits are always looking for ways to give viewers even deeper analysis of team sports and during last week’s IBC in Amsterdam research centre Fraunhofer HHI (Heinrich Hertz Institute) demonstrated a new interactive system that can track specific players and recognise highlights like goals and penalties. The Interactive Sport Experience is the latest [...]

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SVG Europe Sport Technology Awards honor Olympics, Euro 2012, and Olympic Torch Relay at IBC

Published: September 12, 2012 at 3:53 am | By: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director

The SVG Europe IBC Technology Award on Sunday night brought more than 300 industry executives together for an evening of networking as it honoured three top achievements in sports broadcasting in 2012: The Olympics production efforts undertaken by Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the BBC’s coverage of the Olympic Flame Torch relay that proved the use [...]

Ooyala helps football clubs, leagues, and more deliver ‘TV Anywhere’ for Super Fans

Published: September 12, 2012 at 3:39 am | By: Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director

Ooyala was at IBC to lay out its vision for a “TV Anywhere” environment that continues to see the company make wins with individual football clubs, leagues, federations, and more. A partner like Ooyala manages online highlights and streaming capabilities and also provides apps for Apple OS and Android OS devices while also helping clients [...]

Telestream scores IBC Innovation Award for NASCAR high-speed officiating system

Published: September 11, 2012 at 3:34 pm | By: Jason Dachman, Managing Editor

While Telestream’s booth at IBC2012 is chock full of new and enhanced products making their European debuts, the biggest story of the company’s show came on Sunday evening, when the high-speed officiating system it helped to develop for NASCAR took home an Innovation Award in the Content Management category. “We are obviously very excited about [...]

Coming off Olympics peak, iStreamPlanet joins the cloud club

Published: September 11, 2012 at 3:25 pm | By: Jason Dachman, Managing Editor

iStreamPlanet entered IBC2012 on a hot streak following the mass deployment of its technology and services at the London Olympic Games. iStreamPlanet worked with Haivision to develop the “Go Live Package” that powered more than 6,300 hours of streamed Olympics content for rightsholding broadcasters from around the world. But iStreamPlanet is not just sitting on [...]