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A universal standard for AV-over-IP deployment could be the greatest gift the broadcast industry can give to its cousins in AV
read moreBehind the Scenes at Sinclair’s New Media Operations Center Powering Bally Sports, Marquee Sports, and YES Network
To serve the master-control needs of the 19 Bally Sports RSNs as well as YES Network and Marquee Sports Network, Sinclair has erected a 25,000-sq.-ft. SMPTE ST 2110-based Media Operations Center at Encompass Digital Media’s headquarters in Atlanta.
read moreImpact of COVID-19 on Broadcast Infrastructure Market – Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2027
TMR predicts that, the broadcast infrastructure market will grow at a decent CAGR of ~7% from 2019 to 2027, expanding 1.75X by the end of the said period. Industry experts are of the opinion that, the adoption of IP technology is one of the most disruptive trends within the broadcast infrastructure market sector.
read moreAWS Integrates CDI, JPEG XS Support for AWS Elemental MediaConnect
AWS Direct Connect can efficiently be used to bridge on-premises SDI and SMPTE 2110 video networks to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) VPC live video networks. Using JPEG XS can also reduce cloud video bandwidth by up to 90% without sacrificing quality or latency.
read moreBlurred broadcast lines
Thanks to the efforts of SMPTE and multi-vendor promotional body AIMS (Alliance for IP Media Solutions) in galvanising broadcast around the open standard ST 2110, broadcasters are able to build new IP-based facilities using best of breed equipment from a whole range of vendors. In this regard, the AV community lags behind.
“SMPTE 2110 is an accomplishment that drew in end users, manufacturers, and all other stakeholders in products and services,” says Racine. “It may take longer, but this is inevitable in pro AV as well.”
read moreSinclair Inaugurates New Media Operations Center
Sinclair made its new facility as future-proof as possible; as the sports industry advances to higher resolution UHD and HDR, the need for an all-IP facility is critical.
read moreSMPTE ST 2110 a Success in Review
“The beauty of ST 2110 is that it allows this complexity,” Devlin adds. “It does everything from SD all the way up to 8K RGB 12-bit uncompressed to a solution demanding a 100GB link streaming video in one direction. In either case you are using the same protocols, the same switching, the same standard IT architectures.”
From that standpoint 2110 is about as successful as anything the TV industry has ever done, Mailhot says. “At the beginning [2110 compatible product] was built speculatively. Today, it is available because the market demands it.”
read moreAV-over-IP: Decisions, decisions…
ST 2110 is proven and deployed, and as SMPTE, AMWA, VSF and the AIMS Alliance add further AV-specific features to IPMX, it can leverage the software platforms and programmable SoC devices that are likely to be already in your system for updates. It’s still the standard to choose if you want least risk and a future-proof AV-over-IP implementation.
read moreWhatever Happened to SDI?
Today, ST 2110 technology is widely available from all the vendors you are likely to deal with, and it is field proven—not a science experiment. Major systems integrators the world over all have experience in building systems based on SMPTE ST 2110.
read moreSMPTE Earns Two 2020 Emmy® Awards for Technology and Engineering
The SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards is a major contributing factor in the movement toward one common internet protocol (IP)-based mechanism for the professional media industries. The standards suite, which is built on the VSF Technical Recommendation for Transport of Uncompressed Elementary Stream Media Over IP (TR-03), specifies the carriage, synchronization, and description of separate elementary essence streams over IP for real-time production, playout, and other professional media applications.
read moreAdopt the intoPIX JPEG XS Plugin for Adobe Premiere® And Ease Your Live Video Workflow
With access to the standardized JPEG XS format, video editors can rely on the codec’s proven quality and features: visually lossless compression, robust over multiple encoding/decoding cycles, low latency and low complexity. Hence, now it is easy to replace all those SDI-based workflows and start streaming over standard networks using SMPTE 2110.
read moreIn the Business of News
Pebble Beach Systems, which had already worked with Bloomberg UK to deliver a similar system, was mandated to build a modern 2110 NMOS-compliant set-up capable of providing the dynamic and complex switching required for a business news channel. Its real benefit is that it is future-proof and flexible, using the latest technology advances to build a complex pipeline (transmission chain) encapsulated in a redundant server pair with no compromise on reliability.
read moreNextera Video and Adeas Announce SDI Core, SMPTE ST 2022-8, and NMOS IS-09 as the Latest Additions to their Industry-Leading SMPTE ST 2110 Video over IP FPGA Core Set
December 11, 2020 –El Dorado Hills, CA – Nextera Video and Adeas are proud to announce that their industry-leading SMPTE ST 2110 Video over IP FPGA cores now support NMOS IS-09 System Parameters, as well as SMPTE ST 2022-8, SDI Core, and Frame Synchronizer companion...
Dome Productions Advances Along IP Trail With New Gateway Production Truck
Dome Productions is intensifying its commitment to IP-capable offerings with its new Gateway mobile unit. “Gateway’s equipment is working with an environment based on SMPTE 2110,” says Mike Johnson, director, engineering, Dome Productions. “The truck has built-in diversity redundancy, so every device has two paths to its destination.”
read moreM6 Embraces The Benefits Of Evertz IP Technology For Its New Playout Centre
Leading French broadcaster Metropole Television SA (commonly known as the M6 Group) has futureproofed its new Master Control Room near Paris by placing state of the art Evertz IP technology at the heart of its operation. The switch from SDI to IP (ST 2110) will allow M6 to easily incorporate new HD services, new delivery platforms and new video formats such as Ultra HD 4K and 8K.
read moreVideo – NMOS Interview NAB New York 2020
Jed Deame, CEO Nextera Video, is interviewed by Wes Simpson representing the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). Jed talks about what NMOS is, how it works, and why it is so important in IP Video deployments. Visit our Video Resources page for more related videos...
MediaHub Australia Makes a Significant IP Upgrade With EVS, Magna Systems
"Our key requirements were to have flexible gateways or server devices to convert any incoming signal format from various service providers – who deliver as SDI/IP/ASI – to a standard IP format SMPTE-2022-6/7 or SMPTE 2110 for our MCR to process,” says MediaHub’s Executive Head of Technology, Simon Scott. “One of the key needs was operational control surfaces to provide the same touch and feel of a traditional SDI routing system, but with the signals being managed in IP workflows."
read moreAIMS Booth at SMPTE 2020: ‘Game On’ Will Offer Educational Videos and Resources on Media Over IP
“The industry’s embrace of IP has accelerated in past months, with new business pressures and technical challenges driving adoption and innovation,” said AIMS Chairman Mike Cronk. “Ongoing education is vital to the success of new and expanding media-over-IP implementations, and the SMPTE annual technical conference is an ideal forum in which to share expert perspectives, insights, and practical advice on leveraging standards and specifications to achieve interoperability in the IP environment.”
read moreAIMS Chairman Mike Cronk On ST-2110; IP Oktober Webinars Available On Demand
Cronk says that SMPTE ST-2110 continues to make gains, especially in areas like making configurations and connections simpler. And the AIMS membership continues to add members from the professional A/V community and that efforts related to IP in that community, notably IPMX and new ways to put the ST-2110-2 standard for compressed transport is the kind of work that could benefit the traditional broadcast market.
read moreSVG Tech Insight: Establishing A Safe, High-Quality Sports Production With Modern Technologies
Typically, SMPTE-2110 systems afford more flexibility, as its ethernet transmission base allows for embedding and disembedding of audio or video. NMOS (Networked Media Open Specification) control of all IP converters, for instance, can be centralized to a remote laptop station to ensure the safety of the operating staff and allow the operator to dynamically route video and audio essences with ease. New sources can be added dynamically as needed, and just as with fiber, an existing network can be easily updated by using an appropriate IP converter at each end of the video signal chain, to provide safer distancing with high quality and low latency video. IP offers advantages to both live production for OB trucks as well as to permanent studio installations, with the ability to scale to almost any format and frame rate further down the road. IP does require much more complex installation and management than fiber.
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