Ritsumeikan University, one of Japan’s leading private institutions, has taken a bold step in redefining media education with the installation of Genelec’s monitoring solutions. With a focus on immersive audio and hands-on learning, the university’s School of Film and Media Studies now features multiple high-spec facilities equipped with Genelec’s The Ones coaxial monitors and GLM calibration software, providing students with a professional-grade sound environment.
Heartland Video Systems (HVS), a premier video systems integration and consulting firm, announces that our ATSC 3.0 expert team has assisted New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) to optimize their existing ATSC 3.0 over-the-air (OTA) signal with Advanced Emergency Information (AEI) / Advanced Emergency Alert (AEA) capability. In addition, HVS supplied NMPBS the necessary equipment for the country’s very first ATSC 3.0 translator that works in conjunction with their existing ATSC 3.0 facility.
Tennis Channel is partnering with LTN to migrate its 24/7 sports network from satellite to IP-based distribution.
MainConcept, a provider of video and audio codecs, has announced a series of key codec advancements that enable customers to realize significant time and budget savings using their HEVC software encoder and decoder and Easy Video API. These include efficiency enhancements of up to 20% for MainConcept HEVC and for MainConcept EVA (Easy Video API), customers can save up to 75% on integration costs.
Open Broadcast Systems, a leader in low-latency encoding and decoding, has released 5G Assist to enhance remote production over the public internet.
Every technological shift needs foundations to be put in place first. The EBU, together with the Linux Foundation and the North American Broadcasting Association (NABA) are doing that now with the creation of the Media eXchange Layer (MXL), a code package that standardises how media processing functions running in virtualized environments can share and exchange data with each other.
Offering the same core functionality as AJA’s popular openGear OG-DANTE-12GAM, DANTE-12GAM streamlines hybrid IP workflows by making it easier to bridge between SDI sources and destinations with embedded audio to/from the Dante audio ecosystem, which enables distribution of multi-channel, low latency high-resolution digital audio across a switched Ethernet network.
The Blackmagic 2110 IP UpDownCross 12G is a new standards converter for live production and broadcast that lets customers convert between any SD, HD or Ultra HD video format via 12G-SDI, HDMI and SMPTE-2110 IP video connections. This new converter has a rack mount design with a front panel LCD for video and audio monitoring plus menus.