- Chyron is partnering with the NHL Network™ to create a complete BlueNet™ graphics workflow that will support collaborative graphics creation and smooth live playout across the network's North American facilities. The end-to-end graphics workflow will support live NHL Network programming including NHL on the Fly™, the network's signature news and highlights show, and the popular show NHL Live!™," which films Monday through Friday inside the NHL® Powered by Reebok store in New York City. The Chyron solution streamlines the creation of striking on-air graphics for the NHL Network and provides both its U.S. and Canadian sites with seamless access to those graphics. The solution also will support operations as the network hits the road for tent-pole league events such as the Stanley Cup® Playoffs and the NHL All-Star Game.
- Front Porch Digital has announced that its DIVArchive® V7.0 will mark the debut of the new Archive eXchange Format (AXF), an open digital storage format set to revolutionize interoperability among systems, making future media workflows more secure, seamless, and efficient than ever before. Being content and storage technology agnostic, the new AXF format provides the world's most open, flexible, dynamic, and protected mechanism for file-based archive, preservation, and exchange. As a founding member of the SMPTE AXF committee in 2006, Front Porch Digital is firmly committed to open standards work. In fact, the company will contribute its AXF designs back to the SMPTE committee to further the goal of AXF standardization.
- On Call Communications will headline as the NAB show’s official Satellite Broadcaster. This function includes providing the satellite space segment and uplinks for transmissions from the show including live feeds to the major media outlets. Bob Sitrick, President and CEO of Bob Sitrick Productions, is the Executive Producer of the NAB show coverage. On Call will introduce its newest satellite news gathering system at the show, dubbed The QuickSPOT™ Solution. The Company has enhanced the Classic QuickSPOT™ IP SNG System by giving the studio direct control over the encoders, audio and video switches and HD cameras, using an intuitive web based graphical user interface. On Call Communications will exhibit at NAB 2011 April 11-14 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The exhibit booth features an insert studio and a live uplink. Attendees are welcome to visit booth #OE910 to watch the IP/DVB system in action as it transmits from the show. Visitors may also try out the new intuitive IP studio control and view demonstrations of On Call’s studio controlled HD cameras. Upon request, On Call will also make the live uplink available to broadcasters either from the booth or from nearly any location on the floor.
- At the 2011 NAB Show, Snell is partnering with The Application Store (TAS) to demonstrate how Morpheus automation can be leveraged to drive essential metadata to "second-screen" apps on iPad® tablets and mobile platforms. Morpheus will supply the TAS Screentoo® app with real-time data essential to maintaining synchronicity between the primary broadcast and interactive and timeline-sensitive elements within the Screentoo app. The Screentoo app is available for media and broadcast organizations to distribute as their own branded applications to provide services such as voting, polls, chat, and e-commerce related to and customized for a specific show or channel. The very accurately timed metadata provided by Morpheus enables the Screentoo app to provide the consumer with options that correspond directly to events within the primary broadcast. Metadata about both the program and program contents allow the Screentoo app to trigger targeted advertising, provide information about a character or actor in the show, or launch a viewer poll. With ScreenToo, viewers can vote, enter competitions, participate in quizzes, and purchase items. This technology allows broadcasters to monetize their content and generate new revenues from premium interactions.
Satnews Daily
April 11th, 2011
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