TAG Video Systems has provided Japan Cablecast with a 100% IP, 100% software system running on COTS hardware, to streamline and automate monitoring capabilities. Tokyo based Japan Cablecast, is a distributor of digital television broadcasts for cable stations.
Sweden’s Net Insight has agreed to sell its resource optimization business, ScheduALL, to Xytech Systems for $6 million, with the transaction expected to be completed within weeks.
CapMate leverages machine learning techniques to detect and correct complex and time consuming caption file issues.
Cypriot cable company Cablenet has started roll out of Amino 7XC Android TV set top boxes (STBs) to its cable and fibre customers.
Mediaproxy has upgraded its flagship logging and monitoring system to work with both the Zixi and SRT formats. This allows LogServer to be used by OTT service operators running low latency streams, an important feature for more efficient, fully interactive viewer experiences.
Completely Ethernet based, the R&S®SpycerNode SC targets the storage requirements of both broadcast and post production workflows.
DVB has added watermarking as an option for signalling where targeted ads or other content should be inserted within linear broadcast streams. This is an update to its DVB Targeted Advertising specification originally unveiled in November 2019. The addition is aimed particularly at linear broadcasts delivered to internet connected TVs via operator-controlled set top boxes (STBs).
_460_345.png "Stephen Whiting, director for Newsy, running the show from his home using Viz Mosart newsroom automation software.")
With the pandemic’s alarming numbers now decreasing, news anchors have carefully begun reporting from the studio again, albeit in separate parts of the building and socially distanced. However, the IP-enabled technology and remote workflows developed by equipment vendors across the industry during the worst of it have endured and will for some time. These new tools allow reporters, producers and technicians to work from home by streamlining the process of producing a newscast.
