RaceTech, a live production company owned by the British Racecourse Association, provided its Outside Broadcast vehicles to help televise the annual multi-venue Royal Ascot horseracing event. Among a number of production technologies, the company used the DreamCatcher Production Suite from Evertz Microsystems for live production, archiving and VAR support for racecourse officials.
The hard disk drive rapidly converged on the concept of one head per surface with all of the heads moving together on a common positioner.
Russia’s Pike Media Lab has migrated to a software only playout solution from Montreal based Grass Valley.
EVS has announced that its live production servers have successfully passed the Joint Task Force on Networked Media’s JT-NM SMPTE ST 2110 tests, thus ensuring the company’s stated goals of seamless IP interoperability with third-party equipment that also supports the AIMS Alliance roadmap.
We call them hard disks to distinguish them from floppy disks. As the latter have practically died out as a result of progress in solid-state storage such as flash memory, it is probably not necessary to specify that disks are hard anymore, but tradition is a powerful thing.
Veteran systems integrator ATG Danmon, based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, has designed and installed an integrated system providing video recording, storage and archiving together with a media asset management system for the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London’s Covent Garden.
