Applied Technology: Phonetic Search Technology In Digital Archives June 25^th 2015 - 10:08 AM

High-definition broadcasting pioneer WRAL recently digitized its entire archive of nearly 20,000 videotapes — content dated back to 1976. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based station undertook that massive effort not only to ensure that those assets would be preserved, but to complete its transition to an entirely tapeless workflow using Sony’s Optical Disc Archi

Applied Technology: Why Fast Production Storage Is Just Not Enough June 25^th 2015 - 07:47 AM

UHD, 4K, 6K, 8K…the proliferation of high-resolution formats and files, along with the growing number of skillsets that can collaborate on projects, can push storage bandwidth and capacities beyond their limits. With millions of assets available to potentially hundreds of creatives, resource contention across storage and lack of sophisticated m

BBC To Deploy Next-Generation Archive and Media Management System From Vizrt June 24^th 2015 - 10:05 AM

The BBC is migrating its entire audio and video archive library and upgrading its file retrieval and playout capabilities at its main production and distribution facility in London with a new Viz One media asset management (MAM) system from Vizrt. The new Viz One system will work in tandem with

Viewpoint: IP, the fast lane to TV everywhere? June 22^nd 2015 - 08:02 AM

It is inevitable, that once content becomes separate from the carrier, a transition that has already taken place, data networks will replace baseband.With the transition to digital essentially complete, we now get to reap the benefits, and havoc, that media freed of any physical carrier brings with it.

SES Platform Services Speeds VOD and OTT Up File Transfers With Aspera June 16^th 2015 - 11:51 AM

SES Platform Services, a German broadcast services company, has selected high speed file transfer software from Aspera to meet the increasing demand for fast and reliable playout services to broadcast networks and to speed the delivery of content to VOD and OTT providers worldwide.

WRAL Searches Archives With Nexidia Dialogue Search Software June 8^th 2015 - 08:10 AM

CBS affiliate WRAL is using Nexidia’s Dialogue Search software to locate and retrieve files stored on its centralized and recently digitized archive, which dates back to 1976 and holds more than 26,000 videotapes.

Doordarshan Links Archive With Tedial MAM June 5^th 2015 - 12:05 PM

Indian public service broadcaster Doordarshan has installed a Tarsys enterprise MAM system at its Kolkata facility.

Applied Technology: Enhancing Engagement for OCS June 3^rd 2015 - 06:12 AM

Orange Cinema Series (OCS) is a group of subscription TV channels operated by Orange S.A. in France specialising in feature films and popular TV series. To meet the changing demands of their viewers and to improve staff efficiency, OCS implemented a new media asset management solution with Cantemo Portal.