Satnews Daily
September 7th, 2009
digiGO! — The Digital (R)Evolution™
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Atlona’s newest Composite/S-video to HDMI scaler, the AT-HD580, has debuted — this unique scaling unit is designed to upscale any SD and HD video signal to an HDMI output. The AT-HD580 has the abilities to take Composite AV, S-Video with Audio and two HDMI inputs, and scale all of the signals to HDTV resolution’s up to 1080p. The AT-HD580 outputs a wide-range of HD and PC resolutions up to 1080p or 1920x1200 without signal or noise degradation. The AT-HD580 has a comprehensive on screen OSD menu and remote control that will allow users to select a variety of desired output resolutions and enables users to make necessary adjustments for the optimal picture quality. Along with being HDCP compliant, the AT-HD580 features an auto-detect capability that detects and converts Pal to NTSC or NTSC to Pal. This scaler also offers DVI compatibility. With the use of an HDMI to DVI adaptor, the HD580 allows users to feed different video signals into DVI computer monitors or projectors. This unit’s compact size and numerous attributes make it the perfect product for any consumer home entertainment system or digital signage application. Atlona’s AT-HD580 Scaler will be available mid September
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Chyron (NASDAQ: CHYR) has announced that its Lyric® PRO Version 7.1 broadcast graphics package is now shipping with enhanced international language support in the form of a robust, 3D-rich text renderer. The advanced text renderer enables vector display of virtually any font set, including Unicode, complex scripting, external IME and right-to-left input mode specially developed for Arabic languages. Advanced features also include instant data binding to an intelligent interface and associated database link. Additional Lyric PRO features include a continuous graphics renderer, the ability to work with multiple timelines and animations while maintaining multi-scene compositing on output, plus 3D rolls and crawls with border and edge effects. Chyron’s Lyric PRO 7.1 will be shown at IBC2009 on stand 7.D11.
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Harmonic Inc. has announced their Rhozet™ Carbon Server™ 4.0, a new workflow-based distributed transcoding system, and their Rhozet™ Carbon QC 1.0, a quality control product — these two new offerings provide media companies with improved efficiency, reliability, and scalability in a completely automated workflow. Carbon Server 4.0 is designed to manage a network of Carbon Coder transcoders as well as the new Carbon QC 1.0 quality control modules. Carbon Server 4.0 provides complete file-based workflow management, handling a variety of tasks, including quality control, transcoding, and delivery. These tasks are distributed throughout the network, providing optimum processing efficiency. Carbon Server 4.0 provides dynamic load-balancing and failover protection and users can design complex workflows that incorporate a wide variety of processing tasks and conditional behaviors. Carbon QC 1.0 brings automated compliance and quality testing into the transcoding workflow and significantly reduces the amount of manual intervention required to guarantee the high quality output of file-based assets. Carbon QC 1.0 analyzes incoming and outgoing assets during the transcoding workflow and can be configured to check a wide variety of video and audio characteristics, including black detection, silence detection, audio levels, letterboxing, blockiness, bit rate, duration and transport stream compliance. Additionally, Carbon QC 1.0 can provide an automated visual comparison between input and output data to guarantee visual quality of the output. By the way, you might wish to visit Harmonic at IBC2009, Stand 1.C61, to learn more...
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Telestream® and Wowza Media Systems® have announced an affordable solution for the creation and distribution of live video to multiple screens. Telestream's Wirecast™ live video production software works in conjunction with the soon-to-be released Wowza Media Server® 2 Advanced, the world's first multi-protocol platform to provide simultaneous media streaming to iPhone™, iPod™ touch, Flash®, Silverlight™ and QuickTime™ web players, plus IPTV STBs from a single server. The combined offering simplifies high-quality streaming of live entertainment, news, press or sports events, and business or university presentations to mobile, desktop and TV screens, and lets consumers view video on the screen of their choice. Wowza and Telestream will demonstrate this solution at IBC2009. Wowza Media Server 2 Advanced takes the proven Wowza Pro platform and moves beyond Flash by adding H.264 streaming to Apple iPhone and iPod touch, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple QuickTime and IPTV set-top boxes. The Wowza 2 Advanced platform represents Wowza's vision of unified infrastructure media streaming software that enables delivery over any protocol to any player or device, served from any operating system. Wowza Media Server 2 is set for widespread availability in Q4 of 2009. Wirecast is TV studio production software for live streaming that is available for a fraction of the cost of traditional broadcast hardware equipment. Wirecast works just like a video switcher, controlling real-time switching between multiple live video cameras, while dynamically mixing in other source media, such as QuickTime movies, music, audio and slides. Features such as chroma key, 3D graphics, and built-in titles merge seamlessly with Wirecast's layering system, allowing users to easily create live and on-demand broadcasts for anyone who wants to stream to multiple screens.
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ToolsOnAir continues to deliver high-level broadcast solutions based on the Apple platform by presenting just:live at IBC2009, a video and real time graphics player for any news, show, or live event situation. The recent turbulence in the world economy has affected broadcasters' budgets and they are now open for solutions running on standard IT platforms like Apple's Xserve. Just:live, as a part of the ToolsOnAir broadcast suite, is built to reduce the investment costs of establishing a TV channel. Just:live is a highly secure live video player with the capability to bring any kind of graphical information on screen in real time. With its 4 layers of graphics, just:live can deliver background graphics in combination with station ID, news tickers, or lower thirds. The concept of just:live is to integrate video play out and real time graphics in one simple, intuitive interface. With just:live, run-downs from any newsroom system can be taken and then controlled from one interface with a single
operator. In the future, ToolsOnAir plans to integrate hardware devices such as switcher controls to integrate just:live even deeper within the hardware environment of a typical broadcaster. The system runs on Apple's standard off-the-shelf Xserve or MacPro.
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