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Game Creek Video Deploys Five New SMPTE ST 2110-Based Mobile Units
The 53-foot-long expandable units are entirely IP-based facilities. Game Creek Video rolled out the first two production units, Bravo and Columbia, in late 2019. They were followed this year by Gridiron A and B and Celtic. Gotham is currently being completed.
Fox Sports will use Bravo and Gridiron for NFL and college football coverage, while CBS Sports has reserved Columbia and Celtic for its NFL and college basketball broadcasts. MSG Networks will use Gotham for its New York Rangers hockey and New York Knicks basketball coverage.
read moreSMPTE 2020: ‘Game On’ Introduces Series of Program Sessions Optimized for Attendees in the Asia-Pacific Region
SMPTE® today announced that SMPTE 2020: “Game On,” the Society’s interactive and immersive remote technical conference experience, will include a series of technical sessions, roundtable discussions, and networking events specially designed for attendees who live or work in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The APAC program will feature four hours of programming per day on 11 and 12 November, beginning with breakfast roundtables at 8 a.m. Hong Kong / 9 a.m. Tokyo/Seoul / 11 a.m. Sydney.
NMOS – The Interoperable Control System for an IP World
Speaker: Jed Deame, Nextera Video
read moreNextera to exhibit at SMPTE 2020 Virtual Show
Join us at SMPTE 2020! Nextera Video is proud to be participating in this year's SMPTE 2020 Virtual Event on November 10-12. We will be hosting a Virtual Booth with live chat and the ability to schedule meetings with us directly. In addition, Nextera CEO, Jed Deame,...
Mobile TV Group Reflects on Launch of 47 Flex Mobile Unit, Looks Ahead to New Cloud Control Platform
“This is our third all-IP mobile unit, but it’s the first [in which] the native device-to-device IP connection is made through NMOS-04 and -05,” says Phil Garvin. “That is huge because it reduces the installation and coordination time for an IP truck dramatically. That’s the big change here. It’s getting close to the point of plug-and-play, where you can connect two IP devices and they just talk to each other. There’s no question that native IP has been difficult, but it’s now getting easier with advancements we’ve made.”
read moreIP Showcase Channel at 2020 NAB Show New York Goes Live Today
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) is live today at the 2020 NAB Show New York with its own IP Showcase channel. The IP Showcase channel gives attendees a unique opportunity to take in instructional and case-study presentations from industry-leading vendors and broadcasters. A series of 35-minute presentations and discussions will focus on the broadcast industry’s move to standards-based IP infrastructure for real-time professional media applications.
All content will be posted for on-demand viewing and available for 30 days. IP Media Network Management Using NMOS featuring Jed Deame,
Founder and CEO, Nextera Video
read moreGrass Valley Technology Behind the World’s Largest SMPTE 2110 IP Network at BBC Cymru Wales New Central Square HQ
The broadcaster’s new purpose-built national headquarters, which replaces the old Llandaff complex – home to the broadcaster for over 50 years – is the first BBC facility built completely around IP technology, and the world’s largest SMPTE 2110 IP routing system for broadcast. BBC Wales will benefit from future-ready production and broadcast capability that can easily evolve with its changing needs.
read morePreserving PTP in Remote Production Environments
IP is a key enabler of remote production applications, as it supports transport of both audio and video, as well as the data, communications and control signals critical in the production environment. Oftentimes, the challenge lies in connecting two remote sites, each with its own media-over-IP infrastructure but lacking the IP switching and Precision Time Protocol (PTP) implementation essential to preserving timing and synchronization across both sites.
PTP specifies a methodology for synchronizing devices to a single shared clock across packet-based networks (using SMPTE ST 2110 and AES67), including Ethernet switches and IP routers. Creating a common time base for multiple AV sources, PTP enables synchronization of device clocks to within nanoseconds, even across a large network.
read moreAIMS IP Oktoberfest: How to Plan and Deploy a SMPTE ST 2110 Network
To move forward with the design and deployment of a SMPTE ST 2110 network, Robert Welch, technical solutions lead at Arista, has a simple piece of advice: work backwards.
“Try to figure out what you are trying to do with it [the network], and then go in reverse,” said Welch during his “Proper Network Design and Considerations for SMPTE ST 2110” presentation, the final session at the virtual AIMS (Alliance for IP Media Solutions) IP Oktoberfest 2020.
read moreNEP Group Rolls Out IP-Based Supershooter 4, Supershooter 9 Production Units
NEP Group has introduced two new mobile production units with the latest IP innovations for the fall’s return of live sports and entertainment. NEP Supershooter 9 and NEP Supershooter 4 launched with advanced, fully IP-based technology and the latest creature comforts amid health and safety measures required to operate safely in today’s production environment. The mobile units are the fourth and fifth IP production units in NEP’s U.S. lineup, building upon the company’s rollouts of SMPTE ST 2110 EN3, M15 and Supershooter 8 since 2018.
read moreAIMS ‘IP Oktoberfest’ to Update Industry on Transition
“The migration toward IP-based media workflows has accelerated in recent months, so it's more important than ever that broadcast and pro AV professionals have access to current information on the standards and solutions supporting this shift,” said Mike Cronk, AIMS chairman of the board. “We've designed IP Oktoberfest 2020 to offer this information in an engaging, interactive format with plenty of opportunity for discussion.”
read moreHow to move incrementally to IP
The broadcast industry is understandably focusing on the infrastructure of the future, and without doubt this will be based on IP, and built on standards like SMPTE ST 2110 and NMOS IS-04/05...broadcasters must concentrate on building out the IP media network, which of course provides the greatest benefits in terms of costs-savings and workflow transformation. As part of this though, they need to consider how to accommodate SDI equipment, and indeed in some cases SDI networks.
read moreTech Focus: Streaming Technology — The Pandemic Speeds Transition to IP
Broadcast sports production was already well on its way to embracing an IP-based workflow before COVID-19 arrived and compelled sports to shut down last March. Unlike some other technology migrations — such as the shift from stereo to surround and current moves towards immersive sound, both driven largely by the technologies themselves — the move to IP has been propelled by its own business case. “COVID-19 emphasized the need for IP workflow and sped up its uptake,” says Stephan Türkay, senior product manager, media infrastructure, Lawo. “The difference between before and now is that, last year, the driver for IP was scale and now it’s about enabling people to work [more remotely]. [It’s] a different kind of REMI, with fewer people in the same control room. Being able to implement social distancing in the production workflows is vital.”
read moreIP Showcase – Summer Sessions 2020
Each week a new session will be available for replay where an industry expert will deliver a presentation focused on media-over-IP workflows or use cases and their supporting technologies.
Joined by sponsors, AES, AMWA, EBU, SMPTE, and the Ultra HD Forum, AIMS and VSF have created 15 weekly sessions. Presentations will feature expert commentary and use a wealth of experience and technical knowledge to delve into key aspects of media-over-IP. What is NMOS? Secure Control Case Study, Jed Deame, CEO, Nextera Video.
read moreMarquee Sports Network Spotlight, Part 1: Inside the RSN’s New ST 2110 IP Production Facility in Wrigleyville
Early on the in the network’s development, Sinclair Broadcast Group GM Mike McCarthy, his team of engineers, and Marquee’s production team, lead by SVP, Programming/Production, Mike Santini, decided to build a state-of-the-art, IP-based ST 2110-compliant facility. In addition, Marquee enlisted Mobile TV Group to build out an ST 2110-based mobile unit, which resulted in the RSN’s new 47 Flex mobile unit parked at Wrigley Field.
read more2020 Sports Emmys: A Deeper Look at the Big Production and Technology Winners
A world feed was produced in Riot’s Los Angeles-based facilities that was delivered in 19 different languages to more than 40 distribution parters in a spectacular technical effort. And in the heat of battle, Riot Games’ Esports Technology Group decided to innovate with the new JPEG XS compression format – realizing what is probably the first trans-Atlantic remote production undertaken using JPEG XS. SVG Europe’s Fergal Ringrose was in Paris to speak with Riot Games Esports Technology Group head Scott Adametz to break down the overall production, notably how Riot used SMPTE 2110 both in Paris and Los Angeles to distribute uncompressed and compressed video segments.
read moreHow SMPTE Standards Support Next-Gen Content Creation and Consumption
The COVID pandemic has accelerated developments that were already underway, and many media organizations have moved forward more boldly in migrating from SDI to IP, from a push-based distribution model to a collaborative supply chain, from physical hardware to virtualized software systems, from equipment rooms to the datacenter, from physical equipment to cloud- and service-based workflows, from centralized to distributed productions, and from manual tasks to automated workflows.
read moreVox Pop: The Road To IP
Over the past few years, we’ve seen the broadcast industry shift from expensive, inflexible hardware defined contribution and distribution solutions to more flexible and dynamic software-defined solutions that rely on IP distribution for live and live linear video.
read moreRwanda’s State Broadcaster Goes Ultra Hi-Tech
Rwanda has always taken the lead on the African continent when it comes to matters of digital compliance and there is no disappointment with the latest acquisition for the state broadcaster. Recently Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) received the first model of a Streamline S12T OB, a new member of the Streamline family of OB vans on the continent.
read moreNEW EBU PYRAMID SHOWS MATURATION OF THE ST 2110 ECOSYSTEM
The EBU has published an updated version of Tech 3371 and its 'Technology Pyramid for Media Nodes' graphic, a visual representation of user requirements, priorities and the market’s progress in creating and implementing relevant supporting standards and protocols in the SMPTE ST 2110 ecosystem of LiveIP technology. One of the most striking changes is that the Pyramid is greener now, reflecting a greater maturity of product implementations overall, relative to what the earlier version showed.
read moreAIMS Launches Resource for Pro A/V
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has launched a website for its new Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) proposed set of open standards and specifications. IPMX is meant to address the Pro A/V industry’s need for a single set of common, ubiquitous, standards-based protocols that ensure interoperability for A/V over IP, according to AIMs. It proposes open standards and specifications built on SMPTE ST 2110 and designed to enable carriage of compressed and uncompressed video, audio and data over IP networks.
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