The benefits NBCU will derive from using Microsoft Azure Media Services to encode and transcode digital streams of its 2016 Rio Olympics coverage reads like a textbook for virtualization, IP and the cloud. They include: Elasticity — NBCU, which relies on Azure Media Services on a regular basis for encoding and transcoding for its digital audiences who watch sporting […]
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Zero Density Announces NDI Support
Zero Density has announced support for NewTek’s NDI, Network Device Interface, making it easier for the company to integrate its Reality photorealistic virtual studio solution with IP-based production workflows. The NDI support will make such integration “seamless” with other NDI-enabled devices connected to a LAN, the company said. More information is available on the Zero […]
DVB To Focus On IP At IBC 2016
It would appear that U.S. broadcasters aren’t the only traditional TV providers who want to be sure to reach viewers on their iPads, smartphones and other digital devices with an over-the-air TV signal. At IBC 2016 in Amsterdam, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), a consortium of broadcasters, manufactures and others devoted to designing new tech standards, […]
Imagine Communications Tops 25 IP-Based Deployments
Imagine Communications has completed more than 25 IP-based live production and playout installations, the company said Thursday. ”This important milestone marks how far we have come since unveiling our vision at IBC 2013 for a software-based technology transformation of the media and entertainment industry,” said Charlie Vogt, CEO of Imagine Communications. According to the company, deployments […]
Franken Explores The Lighter Side Of Going Live
While interviewing Bill Fesh, news ops manager at WFAA in Dallas, for today’s story on how two station news photographers used IP newsgathering tech to deliver live HD video from the midst of the sniper shooting in Dallas July 7, I made a passing comment about the 1987 ABC TV series Max Headroom. In the show, the Edison […]
Webinar To Offer Insight Into Live IP Production
Imagine Communications, Cisco and EVS today will conduct a webinar on IP live production at 11 a.m. ET. Topics include Designing a workflow for IP live production The components that make up a live production workflow Examples from the field; and Hybrid design. To attend, visit the webinar registration webpage.
Exclamation Propels TNDV Into Big Truck Market
TNDV, the Nashville, Tenn.-based mobile production facilities provider, is known among the sports and entertainment TV communities as a go-to source for remote productions where six or fewer cameras are needed, says Nic Dugger, owner and president of the company. Since May, however, when the company hit the road with Exclamation, its latest mobile production […]
LiveU, LTN Global Partner On IP Distribution
IP newsgathering specialist LiveU today said it is partnering with fully managed global IP network provider LTN Global Communications to expand the distribution opportunities of its customers by enabling wireless delivery of broadcast-quality, live video to more outlets. The partnership allows any LiveU customer to use the LTN Network and extend the reach of their […]
Telos Alliance, QSC Audio To Teach AES67 Seminar
Representatives from The Telos Alliance and QSC Audio will present an Infocomm University seminar at Infocomm 2016 in Las Vegas on AES67 and network interoperability, the company announced today. The class, entitled “AES67: Achieving Interoperability Between Audio Networks” will be held Friday, June 10, 9-10 a.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The class offers attendees […]
Lifetime Show To Focus On BrandStar Facility Makeover
The facility retrofit that BrandStar, a branded entertainment company that produces programs for Lifetime, Fox Business and the History Channel in Deerfield Beach, Fla., recently undertook will be the subject of an episode of Office Spaces on Lifetime Television May 30. An important part of the project was the installation of ZeeVee video signal distribution technology […]