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Record News Goes Multi-Site with Dalet Galaxy September 7^th 2016 - 03:15 PM

Brazil’s 24-hour news channel, Record News, has selected Dalet Galaxy to drive an integrated news production and playout workflow for its São Paulo and Araraquara locations. Creating a single content repository for the two sites to access, the Dalet system offers Record News a story-centric news solution that features affordable IT hardware and federated tools for managing ingest, search, browse, story planning and production, news playout, continuity playout, and archiving.

A new Imagine Communications Platinum IP3 router is now the central point of control for all BBC production activities in the IBC in Rio.

BBC Uses Imagine Communications Platinum IP3 Router At Summer Olympic Games August 18^th 2016 - 01:50 PM

Veteran UK-based system integrator Dega Broadcast Systems has installed IP routing and infrastructure solutions from Imagine Communications as the heart of its broadcast and streaming production center in Rio de Janeiro for the Summer Olympic Games.

Gary Olson reviews the challenges and wisdom of moving to an 8K infrastructure.

It’s All About the K’s June 28^th 2016 - 12:05 PM

I was all set to write my next chapter on standards and terminology when the The Broadcast Bridge published an article quoting the Olympic Broadcast Service (OBS) that said, 4K is just a Bus Stop to 8K (along with 22.2 audio channels).

Avid at IBC had Nexis Pro, Nexis Enterprise, and axle Starter media management software on display

Avid Nexis Pro at IBC September 30^th 2016 - 11:00 AM

Avid’s Nexis Pro is a scalable storage system for mid-size facilities, but its bigger brother, Avid Nexis Enterprise can handle more than 1.4 Petabytes of storage

The Black Box Radian video wall processor.

Black Box Targets Low-latency 4K KVM Solutions September 26^th 2016 - 01:00 PM

With the increase in 4K infrastructure in the broadcast sector, and following the increase in virtual studios, the underlying technology is now increasingly virtualised as well. Black Box presented current trends at this year’s IBC exhibition. The KVM and AV solution specialist’s showcased the latest in of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) alongside latency-free high-performance KVM solutions

It was a busy IBC for Avid with new product introductions and new Alliance Partner announcements

Avid at IBC 2016 September 23^rd 2016 - 01:50 PM

Building on their NAB introductions, Avid brought new storage systems to IBC 2016, previewed IP components of their MediaCentral Platform, and re-defined the next generation newsroom

IBC Makes IP Interoperability a Reality with Dedicated Demonstration Zone September 16^th 2016 - 09:00 AM

The IBC IP Interoperability Zone was presented for the first time this year through the cooperation of AIMS and the IABM.

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