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New Party Line Belt Packs for Large-Scale Production from RTS October 11th 2016 - 01:00 PM

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.

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IBM is now exploiting its artificial intelligence engine developed at the Thomas J. Watson centre in New York for video production.

Big Boys Muscle In As Consolidation Comes To OTT October 4th 2016 - 05:00 PM

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.

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3 Screen’s 3READY is pitched at at broadcasters, content owners, and second and third tier OTT operators.

3 Screen Solutions Reaches Out to Partners for End to End OTT Solutions October 4th 2016 - 01:00 PM

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.

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ENCO Releases Version 3 Of Its enCaption Captioning Solution October 3rd 2016 - 12:05 PM

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.

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