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Party-line intercom systems continue to have a place in an increasingly digital and IP world. Broadcasters, installers and systems integrators still specify lower cost and easy to configure and run systems, a requirement that most manufacturers continue to meet with new product. RTS did this during IBC 2016 with the introduction of what are described as two universal belt packs that can connect to a variety of different formats.
The LYNX greenMachine is a customizable and reconfigurable video processing and conversion solution to fit nearly any application.
IP studio production took a major step forward at IBC with the VRT-EBU LiveIP demonstration powered by Vizrt and Matrox
Consolidation is a sure sign of a maturing market and this was in evidence for OTT delivery at IBC 2016. Many of the companies that first emerged as OTT specialists have been acquired, as well as those associated with cloud based delivery, software encoding and virtualization. Envivio is now part of Ericsson for example while Elemental has been acquired by Amazon Web Services, both primarily involved in software transcoding.
This year’s IBC in Amsterdam witnessed a spate of discussions and partnership announcements between providers of various components across the OTT ecosystem in a bid to assemble complete end-to-end packages. While a few players can offer all components, most of the rest cover just part of the spectrum, splitting loosely between the front end and back end. The front end embraces the UI (User Interface), playout, content curation and navigation, while the back end covers billing, subscriber management, monetization, content management, aggregation, encoding and encryption. Analytics spans both since it requires data from, and generates actions across, both domains, which is one reason why there is so much activity joining the two together.
Adobe upgrades all its production modules for greater collaboration and more efficient operation, and editors get visual keyboard mapping by module in Premiere Pro CC.
The new Video Assist 2.2 update from Blackmagic Design lets you save DNxHD and DNxHR files in MXF containers—a major boon for Avid systems running on Windows
ENCO Systems has released its next generation automated captioning solution for live or recorded video. Called enCaption3 R3, it is a real-time automated captioning system for television broadcasters that does not require special voice training.
Canon’s critical evaluation 24-inch DP-V2420 HDR monitor meets the requirements of Dolby Vision and ITU-R BT.2100-0 while its 17-inch brother provides HDR in UHD
Virtual Reality (VR) continues to be a curiosity among industry professionals, but has yet to find its “killer app” that would lead to financial success. AT the 2016 IBC Show in Amsterdam, several companies demonstrated 360-degree acquisition systems supporting production of VR content. Yes, the images are stunning (in some cases) to look at, but the imposition of the special goggles required to view the content had some visitors to the Nokia and Panasonic exhibit stands literally bumping into each other.
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