In modern consumer electronics history, every new year begins with an early January Consumer Electronics Show, followed by the April NAB Show, both in Las Vegas. Significant new home and broadcast video and audio technologies are often rolled out at both shows, targeted for near-opposite markets wanting to enjoy or produce lots of TV. With no physical exhibits since CES 2020, manufacturers are struggling to impress virtual visitors and reporters with better and larger images with what they can see on their local computer screens.
Kazakhstan Media Center, Kazmedia, puts Grass Valley cameras front and center as part of a comprehensive studio upgrade at its Kazmedia Ortalygy facility in Nur Sultan (formerly Astana).
Timing accuracy has been a fundamental component of broadcast infrastructures for as long as we’ve transmitted television pictures and sound. The time invariant nature of frame sampling still requires us to provide timing references with sub microsecond accuracy.
The 4RU 19” Rack Control and Monitoring Surface and 2RU Control Surface powered with X86 Platform are rack-mountable and can provide capacitive touchscreen control.
For content providers (studios, content owners, content aggregators, or other content licensors) and their licensees (affiliates) operating in a multiplatform world - and pirates looking to obtain illegal access to the most popular content - it’s an unrelenting game of cat and mouse. While the internet has provided a cost-effective and easy way to deliver content to consumers, it also opens up new vulnerabilities that content pirates are eager to expose.
Vizrt has announced a new business model for its content creation and distribution products that now makes them available virtually, in pre-selected workflow “solution suites”, at a monthly price. The company’s new Flexible Access initiative works like many SaaS offering in that a series of microservices behind the scenes can be spun up or down to provide access to Vizrt’s array of software products and its Viz Engine real-time 3D compositing, rendering and playout server.
MediaKind has enhanced its cloud-native MediaFirst TV Platform with features enabling operators to define and deploy competitive services more quickly.
CP Communications, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, has provided expertise and technology to Greenlight Television for its worldwide live stream of the Trans Am Series, a US-based muscle car racing championship.
