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In the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall, the focus of the NAB Show was on the cloud and file-based storage and distribution systems. For Tektronix, a market leader in broadcast-video test, monitoring, and analysis solutions, the task is simple: make its products as portable and cost-effective as possible.
“For a lot of customers, if it [...]
From the professional ranks to collegiate, from networks to venues, the sports market is growing at a rapid rate. The question is: can distribution strategies keep up?
On April 17, members of SVG’s Women’s Sports Media Initiative took time away from the busy NAB Show floor to discuss this question. Nearly 40 women from all facets [...]
Sweden-based Hego Group continues to make waves in the U.S. sports market, showcasing its sports-data solutions at last week’s NAB Show. From its earliest days as a timing company, Hego has focused on the capture, creation, and management of data. Its diverse product lines on display included the GS2 continuous-rendering engine, AKI virtual-graphics and telestration [...]
For remote productions that don’t always have room for a mobile unit, Joseph Electronics’ JFS division showcased the Booth Caddie at last week’s NAB Show. The Booth Caddie, part of Joseph Electronics’ newly developed Caddie System, provides all the basic interfaces of a small mobile-production unit in a convenient portable case. The Caddie System is [...]
Sony’s NAB Show press conference put the focus on 3D production, announcing that the company will once again be sponsor ESPN’s Summer X Games in 3D as well as programming for 3Net and Sky in the UK. But it was the announcement of a multiyear, multicamera deal with NEP that topped the list of new [...]
While much of the attention at the NAB Show focused on next-generation technologies like 3D, 4K, and improved second-screen publishing and content creation, EVS focused on a complete tapeless solution. The company has taken steps in that direction with advances for its XT3 server line, including more storage and the addition of automatic low-res–proxy creation, [...]
Visitors to the CAMERON PACE Group booth last week were bound to hear the term zero delta thrown around. But zero delta, or the point at which producing a 3D telecast adds no additional cost or disrupts none of the traditional workflows in the 2D production, is not just a hollow marketing term. CPG Co-Chairman [...]
PSSI has begun to establish a serious reputation in custom-built satellite-uplink trucks, and the company highlighted the latest chapter in these efforts at the NAB Show last week. The 43-ft. CK-30 multidish mobile-teleport truck was built specifically for the transmission needs of WWE telecasts.
It comes on the heels of another dual-dish trailer built previously for [...]
Wanting to grab a stronger hold on the sports market, Front Porch Digital knew it needed a more cost-effective media-asset–management (MAM) system to offer prospective clients. So it went to the cloud.
At the NAB Show last week, Front Porch rolled out its LYNX cloud-based system and introduced the latest version of DIVAdirector, a Web-based MAM [...]
The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs are well under way, and VidOvation’s In-Net GoalCam has the best seat in all 16 first-round houses. The company’s In-Net GoalCam 60 GHz wireless technology is mounted in each goal, delivering fully uncompressed video with no bit or resolution manipulation.
“The video goes from the goal, up to the NHL rack [...]
