Broadcast PIX

It's all about the user interface. In this new stay at home streaming world, Graham Sharp discusses how non-broadcast trained users can produce professional compelling content and the company's renewed focus on making content production and streaming easy.

CGI Media Solutions

CGI's extensive media solutions division is thriving with a host of announcements around this year's virtual IBC. Including new products and some updates, they will also be showcasing some of the key customer success stories, especially how they have helped the broadcasting community through the global pandemic.

Clear-Com

Clear-Com® has launched the CC-70 Headset, a premium lightweight wrap-around dual ear headset that can be worn under a helmet, hard-hat or personal protective equipment. This new headset offering is an ideal option for professionals required to wear protective headwear in compliance with increasingly stringent safety regulations, or for people who simply prefer a wrap-around headset configuration.

Cooke Optics

Cooke is an established name in both cinematographic and ultra-high-end professional photography markets.
One of the focuses for Cooke Optics for the remaining months of 2020 will be on demonstrating to its customers how its /i technology enables new technical solutions to age old problems. And few problems have been given as much of a twist in recent years as the problem of keeping focus while shooting full frame. The market leading solution for providing a quick visual reference to reassure the camera team that all is going to plan is CINETAPE from Cinematography Electronics, which provides a numerical reading showing the distance between the camera’s film plane and the subject at a glance.

disguise

Extended reality (xR) is disguise’s next-generation technology which allows the blend of virtual and physical worlds using Augmented reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) in live production environments to create fully immersive experiences. Use of xR has seen an exponential increase due to audiences who would normally experience live events, stuck at home. disguise’s xR has recently been used in an album launch for The Black Eyed Peas, the virtual American Idol finale which featured Katy Perry’s reveal of her new single ‘Daisies’, and the completely virtual 2020 MTV VMA Awards.

Motion Impossible

Motion Impossible designs and manufactures unique, modular and fully stabilised, remote controlled dolly systems. Motion Impossible's AGITO is a world's first in modular dolly systems, offering multiple configurations to suit every filming need. When fitted with Sports ends, AGITO becomes the world’s first multi-terrain robotic dolly system, ideal for filming sports. When adding the Trax to the AGITO Core, the system becomes a remotely operated track dolly that is ideal for use in studios or venues where the safety of a pre-set path is required.

OWNZONES

OWNZONES empowers content creators to reach their consumers on a global scale. OWNZONES’ suite of SaaS solutions is built entirely in the cloud and incorporates cutting-edge video supply chain workflows and formats to make the vision for a studio in the cloud a reality. OWNZONES Connect™, delivers core competencies in IMF, parallel scaling and geographically distributed workflows.

Pebble Beach Systems

Pebble Beach Systems, the leading automation, content management and integrated channel specialist, announced the next wave of media orchestration with its new platform, Oceans. Oceans is Pebble’s next generation service-oriented technology platform. Built for all clouds, but equally happy on-prem, Oceans will enable broadcasters to deploy, manage, host and upgrade their broadcast workflows and services from a single intuitive unified interface, now and in the IP future.

PHABRIX

PHABRIX, a worldwide leader in test and measurement instruments, is pleased to announce that its newest innovation, the QxL 25G IP rasterizer, is now shipping. Launched in April 2020, the QxL is the world’s most flexible UHD-25G rasterizer, created to address the needs of professional broadcast media IP networks in a compact form factor.

Red Bee Media

The challenges of 2020 have been extreme and have accelerated ongoing changes in the media industry, leaving many organisations re-evaluating the way they do business.

Red Bee Media discusses how business models can be reimagined in a changing industry, and especially in the wake of Covid-19. From the transformative shift to hybrid cloud technology and software only solutions, to the increased flexibility and agility provided by outsourcing, as well as non-traditional monetisation models for sports content. The webinar discusses how next generation media companies can, and will, rewrite the playbook for businesses in the media industry.

Signiant

Signiant has been issued patent number 10,735,516 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its invention titled “Cloud-Based Authority To Enhance Point-To-Point Data Transfer With Machine Learning.” The patent describes methods and systems that incorporate machine learning to evaluate anonymized historical transfer information collected by its SaaS products.

STADS

STADS connects advertisers and advertising agencies to stadiums around the world, allowing for the rapid buying and selling of advertising space on the digital hoardings that surround football pitches (and other sports — STADS is actively moving into horse racing, basketball, America Football and others). The messages that appear are seen by both the large audiences inside the stadia, and the even larger broadcast audiences at home. STADS has most recently confirmed the renewal with two of the European giants, Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan.

Telstra Broadcast Services

Telstra Broadcast Services, who is celebrating five years as a company, has launched new points of presence on its Global Media Network in China and APAC expanding upon Telstra’s international fibre, satellite and parner media network. Additionally, Telstra has partnered with Zixi for global live video distribution. The addition of Zixi’s ZEN Master within the Telstra GMN connects on-network media rights holders to off-network media buyers by transporting high-quality linear video using cloud infrastructure in a highly secure manner via content networks. This new integrated service expands the Telstra GMN to broadcasters in locations where fiber or satellite is not available for news and entertainment broadcasters, sports leagues and Esports organizations.

Zixi

"Zixi Delivers" will provide opportunities for audiences to learn about the SDVP from Zixi leadership, integrated partners and prominent media companies that are utilizing Zixi to virtualize their streaming infrastructure and conquer the challenges of on-prem and remote orchestration, monitoring and management of live streaming workflows delivered over IP.