Recent Posts by Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe
By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 7:35 pm
“It’s 12 months since I started, and we have hit business targets four quarters in a row,” says Tim Thorsteinson, CEO of Snell Advanced Media (SAM), a company formed by […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 1:03 pm
TSL Products (N5112) is set to announce the world’s first uncompressed video over IP (S2022-6) audio monitors. The new PAM-IP range is designed to smooth the transition to an IP […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Friday, February 5, 2016 - 10:36 am
On Saturday, the BBC will make broadcasting history, live-streaming the Scotland-England RBS Six Nations match to the International Space Station for British astronaut Major Tim Peake.
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 8:48 am
Team SVG was out in force during NAB 2015, with nine reporters scouring the show floor and checking out the latest in technology as well as sitting down with dozens of industry leaders on both the exhibitor and attendee side. These reports from the entire SVG editorial staff offer nine individual perspectives that, collectively, form […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 5:06 pm
At NAB Forbidden is featuring the new Forscene, which was unveiled at IBC2014 and went live in December. With the overhauled user interface comes a new MAM system, through which users can move media between Forscene servers in different locations; rename, share, and publish media from various accounts in the Forscene MAM; manage and configure […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 3:35 pm
At NAB LiveU has unveiled its second-generation internal and cross-organisational IP video distribution service, LiveU MultiPoint. The cloud-based MultiPoint service is integrated into the company’s unified management platform, LiveU Central, so broadcasters can share incoming live feeds simultaneously with multiple end-points over the Internet from within the same interface. Also at NAB, Panasonic announced it […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 3:32 pm
Sony’s headline product launch at NAB is the HDC-4300, claimed as the world’s first 4K system camera with three authentic 4K image sensors. Not only has Sony developed its own new two-thirds inch CMOS sensor for the purpose, but it has also listened to a marketplace that really needs a 4K camera to double as […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Monday, April 13, 2015 - 4:39 pm
One of the biggest talking points as the NAB exhibits opened Monday morning was Avid’s acquisition of Orad Hi-Tec Systems, announced Sunday night. Israeli company Orad, stock exchange-listed in Frankfurt, brings studio displays, 3D realtime graphics, video servers, sports replays and MAM to Avid in an all-cash deal valued at €5.67 per share financed by […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 5:59 pm
Well-known industry figure Tim Thorsteinson took the reins as CEO of Quantel and Snell in March. At NAB he unveiled his initial reaction of the entities he has inherited: “two proud businesses with great technologies – that need to be combined, so that in the future ‘one plus one will equal three’. We’ll get into […]
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By Fergal Ringrose, SVG Europe | Sunday, April 12, 2015 - 3:21 pm
“Last year, we were acquired by Vector Capital,” said ChyronHego President/CEO Johan Apel at an NAB press conference. “The transaction closed in March this year, when we delisted and became a private company. It was public and traded for a long time, since the 1970s, and it’s now private. “Why is this important?” he continued. […]
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