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NEWS & VIEWS
September 2016
Partners demonstrating 360° VR solution
Viacess-Orca, VideoStitch and
Harmonic are showcasing an endto-end virtual reality (VR) technology demonstration.
Through this VR ecosystem,
the companies aim to offer
content owners and pay-TV
operators a platform to deliver
premium content in 360° and
leverage their video infrastructure, including streaming and
4K/Ultra HD (UHD) encoding. The
end-goal, add the companies, is to
enable a more engaging, personalised and immersive TV experience
for viewers.
The VR ecosystem features
Harmonic’s Electra X3 advanced
media processor, ProMedia X Origin multi-screen media server, ProMedia Xpress high-performance
transcoder, and WFS workflow
system for video compression,
encryption and streaming.
These solutions are integrated with VideoStitch’s Studio
V2 post-production, 360° video
stitching software. By applying
cutting-edge image processing
techniques, such as colour correction, exposure and panorama orientation to camera-capture images
in real time, the Studio V2 software
transforms content, enabling it to
be viewed in the VR realm.
In addition to managing this
end-to-end ecosystem, ViaccessOrca also brings viewers’ engagement around premium content to “a new level”. ViaccessOrca’s VR-enabled immersive
user experience leverages both
its Connected Sentinel Player offering for secure playback and its
COMPASS personalisation platform to make the most of the
insights gained from this new TV
environment.
Viaccess-Orca is showcasing an end-to-end VR technology demonstration with its
partners.
While immersing in the VR
experience at booth 1.A51, visitors can also check out Adaptive
Sentinel, a new converged and card
and cardless conditional access
system (CAS).
VSN updates new software
Delivering the future of TV today
development for VSNEXPLORER Imagine Communications says production and contribution port- playout, advanced multi-channel
VSN is explaining how a new
software upgrade that is currently
being developed for the company’s
VSNEXPLORER suite of solutions
will improve the media management efficiency and automation
of VSNEXPLORER modules. These
include the PAM (production asset
management), MAM (media asset
management), BPM (business process management) and BI (business
intelligence) modules.
In particular, VSN is highlighting a full integration of an online
thesarus with the company’s media
management tools. This, says VSN,
will allow users to automatically
link and associate additional information extracted from the Internet
— maps, locations, history, images,
VSN is highlighting how an upcoming
software update can help improve
workflow processes.
biographies and so on — to any
publication.
Using Linked Data, or a practice of using the Web to connect
related data that was not previously
linked, users can then explore all
the associate data located in the
Web and obtain further information to complement the initial data
obtained. Essentially, the Linked
Data, through the use of metadata
or ‘universal identifiers’, allow additional information to be extracted
from contrasted databases.
VSNEXPLORER’s integration
with the online thesarus, adds
VSN, allows users to have access
to a large database comprising
interconnected data that complement and link with one another.
For instance, the name of an international organisation could be
automatically associated to additional data about its foundation,
size, competencies and location.
Manuel Escribano, VSN’s CTO,
says: “We are conscious of the challenges that users have to face in the
current broadcast and media and
entertainment sectors, and we work
every day to provide them with the
tools to improve their efficiency,
as well as media management and
cataloguing capacities.”
Find out more at booth 7.D25.
it is shining the spotlight on the
current state of the media and
entertainment industry’s evolution
to a new technology foundation.
The company is offering a range
of solutions to help broadcasters,
service providers and other media
companies accelerate the modernisation of their production, playout
and distribution facilities.
These include Imagine Communications’ hybrid SDI-IP routing and multiviewer solutions,
designed to empower media
companies to transform live production operations and leverage
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)
IT-equipment.
Imagine Communications’
Imagine
Communi cations
aims to “deliver
the future of
TV today” with
solutions such
as the EPIC
multiviewer.
n SEPTEMBER
September 9-13
IBC 2016
White Paper @ www.apb-news.com
RAI Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://www.ibc.org/
n OCTOBER
Mapping the European pay-TV
innovation landscape
v
Launched by Nagra in partnership with
MTM, an international research and strategy consulting firm, the Pay-TV Innovation
Forum is an international programme focused on exploring next-generation business models and innovation opportunities
for pay-TV service providers.
This white paper, the first to be written
as part of the Pay-TV Innovation Forum,
takes a look at the pay-TV innovation
and examines developments in Europe.
Particularly, it features an analysis of the
product and service portfolios of 93 pay-TV providers across the 18
largest European pay-TV markets.
folio provides ultra-low latency
encoding and decoding and the
delivery of uncompressed media
over IP transport, as well as support for Sony Network Media
Interface (NMI) and intoPIX TICO
compression for 4K/Ultra HD (UHD)
operations.
Imagine Communications’ live
production portfolio also supports
4K/UHD processing technologies,
including up/down-conversion
and the latest standards for delivering media over IP networks,
high dynamic range (HDR) image
quality and precision timing.
For the support of compressed
and uncompressed IP-based
October 4-6
APSCC 2016
Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
http://www.apscc.or.kr/sub3.asp
October 20-22
BROADCAST INDIA 2016
Bombay Exhibition Centre Goregaon
Mumbai
India
www.broadcastindiashow.com
n NOVEMBER
November 7-10
CASBAA CONVENTION 2016
Studio City, Macau
www.casbaa.com/
November 16-18
INTER BEE 2016
Makuhari Messe
Tokyo, Japan
www.inter-bee.com/
November 29 - December 1
DVB ASIA 2016
InterContinental Hotel Bangkok
Thailand
www.dvbasia.org
n DECEMBER
and 4K/UHD playback and branding, Imagine Communications
offers its Versio 4K/UHD playout
and graphic workflow solutions,
which is now equipped with a new
user interface and new automation
features to support virtualised deployment for cloud environments.
Other highlights at booth
4.A01 include Imagine Communications’ solutions for multi-screen
delivery, which support high-density and high video quality transcoding and delivery for over-the-top
(OTT) linear and video-on-demand
(VoD) services.
Together with partners Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
(HPE), Imagine Communications
is higlighting how the companies’
collaboration is accelerating the
transition to virtualised environments. Microsoft Azure Certified
solutions based on Imagine Communications’ 100% software-based
playout and live encoding solutions
will be featured, as will media cloud
services that leverage HPE’s cloudbased, virtualised and orchestrated
network services.
March 23-25
CCBN 2017
China International Exhibition Centre
Beijing, China
http://www.ccbn.tv/EN/channels/160.
html
December 1-2
n APRIL
IABM ANNUAL INT’L BUSINESS
CONFERENCE 2016
April 22-27
2017 NAB SHOW
UK
www.theiabm.org
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.nabshow.com/
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n MAY
n MARCH
KOBA 2017
6 - 9 March
ABU DBS 2017
Hotel Istana
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.abu.org.my
March 21-23
CABSAT 2017
Dubai World Trade Centre
http://www.cabsat.com/
May
COEX Exhibition Centre
Seoul, South Korea
http://www.kobashow.com/eng/
May 23-25
BROADCASTASIA /
COMMUNICASIA2017
Suntec Singapore / Marina Bay Sands
Singapore
http://www.sesallworld.com/