Miss something at the NAB Show? Read the post show reports and analysis by the editors of The Broadcast Bridge, with additional coverage of all of the products released at the show - filtered by category.

STN uplinks 500 channels from their teleport

STN Trials HEVC for DTH services April 29th 2015 - 12:28 PM

At NAB The Broadcast Bridge met up with senior executives from satellite service provider STN. Mitja Lovsin, STN’s sales and marketing director, talked about the market, and an exciting new project that will use HEVC encoding and is to air late summer, 2015. STN, the Satellite Telecommunications Network, is based in Slovenia and uplinks 500 channels from their teleport. The company also provides playout facilities for 50 of those channels.

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Ned on NAB April 19th 2015 - 05:36 PM

Disruptive technology aims to end linear television.

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Imagine teams with HP in the cloud April 12th 2015 - 02:16 PM

Imagine Communications has partnered with HP to help media and entertainment companies implement private, virtual video delivery infrastructures in the cloud. The relationship includes a proof of concept that uses Imagine’s software-based solutions and HP’s global scale and power in hardware, storage and managed private cloud solutions.

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Adobe and Aframe work together to create editing from the cloud April 10th 2015 - 02:35 PM

Cloud operations have been steadily gaining a foothold in broadcasting over the last five years but there are still limits to how much it can do and reservations about what it should be used for in TV and post-production. In particular there has been doubt over the viability of full editing using the technology but ahead of NAB 2015 Adobe has announced that its Anywhere collaborative workflow system can run in conjunction with platform provider Aframe’s remote server network to do exactly that.

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Primestream Launches New Xchange Media Cloud Platform On Microsoft Azure

Xchange Media Cloud launched on Microsoft Azure April 8th 2015 - 05:39 PM

Primestream has released Xchange Media Cloud a Software-as-a-Service asset management platform using Microsoft Azure.

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Schematic of Elemental

Comcast selects Elemental to support cloud DVR April 7th 2015 - 05:40 PM

Comcast has selected Elemental video processing software to power encoding for its X1 DVR. Last year, Comcast began offering customers the X1 DVR with cloud technology, which lets customers record TV shows and movies in the cloud to enjoy at home or on-the-go across devices. While in the home, X1 DVR provides access to the program guide on any device and nearly the entire channel lineup, as well as the Xfinity On Demand library.

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Cinegy Clarifies Cloud at NAB seminars March 31st 2015 - 11:04 PM

MAM developer Cinegy will present ‘Cloudy With a Chance of Media’ in  a series of on-booth seminars at NAB 2015.

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Over-the-Air Broadcasters Face Huge Choices at NAB March 25th 2015 - 03:00 PM

It’s hard to remember a time when over-the-air television broadcasters faced more difficult choices about their future.

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So Little Time, So Much To Learn March 24th 2015 - 10:27 AM

World-class learning opportunities abound in NAB exhibits and technical sessions.

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