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digiBITZ—UPM Raflatac and Alien Technology have been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrices released by ABI Research. The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets. Two new Vendor Matrices have just been released: they assess RFID inlay manufacturers that offer passive 13.56 MHz (HF) and UHF inlays. UPM Raflatac scored highest in the RFID Passive HF Inlay Vendor Matrix, while Alien Technology edged out tough competition to win top honors in the RFID Passive UHF Inlay Vendor Matrix. Vendors are assessed by ABI Research on the important parameters of “innovation” and “implementation” across several criteria, unique to each vendor matrix. More details here….
Aruba Networks Inc. has now assisted McGill University in Canada to employ their adaptive, wireless LANs across the higher learning institution’s two Montreal campuses. The university has already deployed 2,700+ out of a total of 3,700 Aruba wireless access points.
At Cineversity, MAXON Computer’s online education and training resources, there are now more than 1,000 toots available for access. The site assists artists in maximizing their creative potential by offering instruction on some of the most advanced visual effects techniques and methods. More info here…
The new Chief Financial Officer for British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) is the company’s former Director of Group Finance, M&A and Investor Relations, Mr. Andrew Griffith. The appointment goes into effect immediately and follows an extensive internal and external search process that was conducted by the company’s Board. Also joining BSkyB’s Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director is Danny Rimer, who is a General Partner with the venture capital firm Index Ventures—Isleworth, United Kingdom
Digital Fairway will be changing its name to Commsolv Corporation to more accurately reflect the company’s focus on enterprises and service provider solutions for their communication infrastructures. Their new website…
OmniBus Systems now has a partnership with Aspera, Inc., the creator of high-speed file transfer technology fasp 2.0. Together, their systems will deliver high-speed digital content to OmniBus iTX, an IT-based broadcast automation and content management system that is designed to be file format and distribution method agnostic. Additional details here…
At the upcoming Streaming Media East 2008 show, NBC Universal’s first Chief Digital Officer, George Kliavkoff, will deliver the keynote speech. The conference opens on May 20th at the New York Hilton. Registration info here…
For those heading to NAB ’08 next week, the show’s organizers have put together a new Content Theater. This venue is going to examine the live, 3D HD production and transmission process that’s involved in a National Basketball Association game.
- DELIVERY—Editware has a new multi-application server control system, the C3 Clip Control Center. “The C3 Clip Control Center replaces multiple control applications with a single point of control,” stated Jay Coley, president of Editware. “The product facilitates new control requirements as they become necessary, without the need to look for a new solution”. The Clip Control Center is keyboard, mouse, or touch screen driven, and is planned for release during Q3 of 2008. The preliminary applications include the C3 Media Player, which plays out server scenes in as many as eight (8) independent groups using VDCP control— the C3 Media Assembler composes complex sequences from multiple segments through multiple channels and still frame images help the user find IN and OUT points graphically and on-the-fly—C3 Player and C3 Assembler combined can change a program playing out to air in real-time. The product controls: 360 System, Apella, Avid MediaStream, Boxxster, Doremi, EVS, GeeVS, Grass Valley K2, M-Series and Profile, Metropolis, Omneon, Ross SoftMetal, Sao Broadcast, SeaChange, Typhon, Toshiba and other servers with VDCP capability—Grass Valley, California
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DELIVERY—To start shipping in September is FOR-A Corporation of America’s (NAB: SU5220) new FRC-3000 HD Frame Rate Converter. The company’s flagship FRC-7000 frame rate converter was used in the multi-national transmission of last February’s Super Bowl XLII and the worldwide music event “Live Earth.” With a compact design, the unit fits into a 1RU frame, ideal for news apps. The FRC-3000 uses vector motion compensation processing to analyze and determine the pixel movement in each image frame and uses many of the FRC-7000’s functions. Both models feature advanced scene cut detection that automatically detects scene changes and turns off motion compensation processing so not affect the scenes before and after the frames being converted. A complete, new set of frames is then created in the required output standard. As the frame rate converters automatically recognize similar scene cuts involving the same subject or similar visual content, the resulting conversion contains minimal judder or artifacts. There’s text field automatic detection, which automatically recognizes scrolling text superimposed on video. A manual setting can be selected for static field such as date, time, and program titles and logos. This allows for those portions to be treated separately without performing motion compensation processing. FOR-A’s FRC-3000 and FRC-7000 can perform conversions between 1080/59.94i and 1080/50i, and between 720/59.94p and 720/50p HD frame rates in real-time—Cypress, California
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DELIVERY—From Harris Corporation comes their latest products in signal processing, routing and monitoring/control for the firm’s newgen D mobile broadcast production trucks—and NHK Enterprises America, Inc., has grabbed onto the technology. The brand new “K3“, which is set for commissioning this May, is going to be showcased at NAB at the Gerling & Associates booth #OE100. The truck includes recently introduced products Platinum MX 9RU audio router with embedded TDM MAX audio-switching infrastructure (the world’s first embedded audio processing router) and a Platinum MX 15RU video router integrated with the CENTRIO multiviewer. Also installed in the truck are more than 20 frames for NEO advanced processing modules and 6800+ core processing modules and a NUCLEUS user-configurable control panel and the CCS Navigator advanced graphical navigation application. NHK will use the new “K3” to support its live, east coast coverage of Major League Baseball games that the company broadcasts in HD and transmits to Japan. NHK has broadcast more than 280 games per season in Japan since 2001, when demand for coverage skyrocketed following the Seattle Mariners’ signing of former Japanese Pacific League star Ichiro Suzuki—Cincinnati, Ohio
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DELIVERY—Another Harris Corporation goodie is about to be unveiled—their Videotek QuiC media analysis server. This offering combines loudness monitoring technology from TC Electronic with the QuiC system’s automated quality control and crx tools. The program manager for QuiC, Thomas Lund, stated, “Today’s television viewer is very familiar with audio levels that jump to unacceptable levels, especially during commercial breaks, which causes millions of annoyed viewers to dive for their remotes to turn the sound down and is counter-productive for commercial television. As more channels and platforms are being controlled by fewer master control operators, our loudness monitoring tools built into the QuiC system offer broadcasters a unique, automated solution for this problem.” Harris first introduced QuiC in April 2006 and began shipping it in December of that year to what is now an installed based of more than 100 customers worldwide. In April 2007, Harris expanded the QuiC system’s automated analysis and correction tools designed to analyze, detect, and correct many common file errors. Existing QuiC systems can be upgraded with TC loudness monitoring and control software—Cincinnati, Ohio
- DELIVERY—A new 2-channel, 5.1-channel surround upmixer is now shipping from the folks at Linear Acoustic. Named UPMAX:neo, this new member of the upMAX 2251 product line, this new unit reduces the footprint to a compact, extremely road-worthy 1RU chassis. Plus, additional upmixing choices have been added to the original upMAX algorithm for more post production application flexibility. Metadata is standard as well as GPI inputs to control upmixing. The company has also debuted their new AEROMAX:one DTV audio processing system, complete with Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoding. This single rack unit accepts four AES pairs of audio to handle two-channel to 5.1 channel network or local audio plus a separate pair of channels for SAP or visual descriptive programming. Multiband, multistage loudness control and upmixing to local audio can be applied with this product. This allows it to batch to 5.1 channel network audio, while leaving the network audio itself untouched.—Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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CONTENT + DELIVERY—You’ll be able to obtain your first look at ViewCast Niagara GoStream SURF, a portable, streaming media appliance, during NAB ’08 next week in Vegas (SL13109). This is the newest in the company’s Niagara encoder product line, all of which are powered by ViewCast‘s Osprey video capture technology. Users can capture video to send multiple, full-res streams to PCs and mobile devices in multiple formats at multiple bit rates, and all done simultaneously. Users can shoot on location or in the studio and have access to live audiences, delivering video content in MPEG-4, Flash Live, Microsoft Windows Media, RealVideo, and uncompressed AVI. The Niagara GoStream SURF comes with pre-installed ViewCast Niagara SCX Pro management and control software. You can also scale and size each individual stream and customize it with other visual elements (i.e., closed captions, bitmap overlays and so on) to propagate your brand online—Plano, Texas
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