Hi Tech Systems is an innovative developer and manufacturer of remote production, play-out, and facility wide control systems, for TV broadcasters, service providers, and cable and satellite operators. Our products are flexible, reliable and scalable, and designed to cater for all channel types. Our solutions manage acquisition, file-based workflows, archiving and multi-channel playout at large and small installations worldwide.
What Kubernetes orchestration can bring to video workflows
In this talk we will show how we can leverage kubernetes orchestration to transform how we do playout, transcoding and primary distribution for hybrid, on prem or cloud based video workloads.
Azimuth Soft Case Studies: Newsroom Computer Software
In Conversation with Harmonic
In this IABM TV interview, Andy Warman (Director Playout Solutions, Harmonic Inc) discusses service continuity and how the cloud plays a pivotal role in this for broadcasters and service providers. Andy also discusses the recent launch of Live Connection.
Improve Your Relevance With Regionalized Online Channels!
Many broadcasters are used to producing regional versions of their main channels, where news and weather (for example) vary by broadcast locality. The basic model is well established. Typically, national channels destined for localization have segments defined where the regional content is “spliced in”, depending on the local area. Within Sweden for example, viewers who are based in Stockholm can watch a tailored version of a national channel that shows more content related to their city compared to viewers watching elsewhere. And as TV evolves, viewers who have grown used to this level of regionalization on certain channels will expect this to be replicated across all platforms and on all screens.
Installing and expanding Mediaproxy compliance monitoring for AMC Networks International Central and Northern Europe
Mediaproxy Case Study: AMC Newtworks
AMC Networks International (AMCNI) is the global distribution division of US cable operator and entertainment media group AMC Networks Inc. Its activities are divided across different regional territories, each with a dedicated operating unit handling multiple television channels broadcasting targeted programming, in specific languages, to countries within its region. Each channel is available on a variety of platforms to multiple devices, calling for extensive compliance monitoring to ensure output conforms to different regulatory standards and provides a consistent level of quality for viewers.
AMCNI Central and Northern Europe, which covers 14 nations including Germany, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine, updated its logging and analysis system four years ago with the installation of a Mediaproxy LogServer monitor and analyzer. It is now in the process of expanding this set-up to accommodate new services.
Mediaproxy Whitepaper: Exception-based IP broadcast monitoring using penalty boxes
Broadcast engineers are faced with an increased number of digital television channels that they must monitor. Adding to this complexity are OTT services each with multiple profiles being streaming across CDNs to multiple edge points.
The explosion in broadcast and OTT streaming services coincides with increasing pressure to reduce operating costs and do more with less. Though broadcast and OTT playout systems are scalable, a person’s ability to manage multiple streams of information simultaneously is not...
Mediaproxy Whitepaper: Next Generation Content Monitoring
Today, broadcasters and facility operators have a choice of how to find and monitor content passing through the distribution and playout chains. While traditional detection methods such as time and date searches and predefined metadata are still valid and used widely, newer and more sophisticated techniques such as digital watermarking and fingerprinting, combined with the increasing use of computer-based automation are making inroads into the market and have to be considered viable alternatives.
The challenge is to harness the potential of machine learning and decide what is the best model for specific operations, whether based locally at the user's premises or remotely on cloud- based platforms...
VideoFlow Case Study: NRWision
NRWision, a community TV station serving the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, used a filebased system for the first nine years of operations, to upload non-live content created in the studio over an internet connection to a playout server in Unitymedia's network operation center (NOC). While NRWision had been part of Unitymedia's channel line-up for quite some time, it was not able to broadcast live over the internet.
This may sound strange given the fact that NRWision has 1 Gb/s connections to the desktop and - as a university - has a high-speed direct access connection to the Internet backbone. However, NRWision realized that high-speed internet connection is not enough to ensure successful live broadcast.
LNS – Live News & Sports Systems
The heart of creative, cost efficient, coordinated workflows, LNS is story centric, where just One Button changes everything.
There is an expanding world market for more efficient and more accurate workflows and systems, to meet the challenge of new technology. Cost of entry has been lowered, increasing competition, and stimulating demand from live news and sports audiences. But at the same time, producers and platform operators are increasingly finding they are required to do more – with less.