In Broadcast - April 2015 - 18

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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 4 | April 2015

InNews
Mediacorp Selects
EVS For HD News
SIN: MediaCorp, a leading
Singapore-based media company
has selected a full end-to-end news
production solution from EVS.
With
platforms
spanning
television, radio, newspapers,
magazines, movies, digital and outof-home media, the installation
is for their facility in Mediapolis,
which is under construction.
When fully implemented later this
year, the integrated solution EVS
News PAM system will provide
infrastructure for 56 HD-SDI
channels, 500TB of central storage
equivalent to 12,000 hours of HD
content, and over 500 journalist
editing stations.

zLense Delivers
At Eurovision
GBR: zLense standalone real-time
depth sensing and modelling
solution has been used during
the live ﬁnale of The Song, the
national contest to select Hungary's
Eurovision Song entry.
Maximising viewer participation,
Show&Game Productions utilised
the zLense solution to create an
immersive experience for viewers.
Putting high-quality real-time CGI
into the hands of the production
team, the zLense solution enabled
the augmented reality simulations
and visualisations to deliver social
media and results infographics.

Sony SxS Card
Memory Player
GBR: Sony has announced a new 4K
SxS memory player, the PMW-PZ1.
A playback solution for 4K shooting
and post-production applications,
the PMW-PZ1 features multi-format
playback capability for 4K (24p to
60p) and HD video, supporting a
variety of formats including XAVC
Intra & Long, MPEG HD422 and
MPEG HD.
The versatile PMW-PZ1 player is
equipped with an SxS card slot, a
HDMI output, 3G/HD-SDI outputs
(x4), an audio output and an LCD
colour monitor.

Deluxe & BT Global Reach
Strategic Delivery Alliance
D

eluxe Entertainment Services
Group has announced a contract
with BT Media & Broadcast that will
extend the reach of MediaCloud,
Deluxe's software orientated broadcast
platform, utilising BT's global network
connectivity.
The alliance is focused on delivering
managed channel origination and
distribution globally.
"This is a very signiﬁcant step in the
revolution taking place in broadcast
technologies," said BT M&B VP Mark
Wilson-Dunn. "The combination of our
media grade global networks, and the
Deluxe MediaCloud platform, together
with the professionals behind it, is a
winning proposition."
The alliance aims to maximise agility,
cost effectiveness and resilience,
offering
broadcasters
increased

Deluxe extends
reach of MediaCloud

ﬂexibility, and with the capability to
deliver to any platform, anywhere,
anytime and in any format.
Deluxe MediaCloud MD, Maurizio
Cimelli said: "The MediaCloud platform
is designed to transform broadcasting
from content acquisition through
to play-out and delivery. Its agility,
cost effectiveness and resilience is

designed to offer broadcasters far
more ﬂexibility without compromising
quality."
Designed to meet distribution and
delivery requirements for linear and
non-linear broadcast platforms, the
alliance enables clients to quickly and
reliably launch, manage, and monetise
channels and content on a global scale.

Harmonic's Compact Size MediaGrid
H

armonic has released its compact
Harmonic MediaGrid ContentStore
5840 storage system.
This dual-redundant chassis allows
users of large-scale Harmonic
MediaGrid shared storage systems
to reduce rack space by two-thirds
and achieve 30% cost savings on
equivalent storage capacity.

Harmonic reduces storage rack space

By integrating ContentStore 5840
storage nodes into new or existing
MediaGrid installations, users can
build larger, faster video ﬁle systems
within a smaller footprint using fewer
cable connections.
"With the release of the new
ContentStore 5840 storage node, we
enable the largest media customers in
the world to realise performance
and efﬁciency of the MediaGrid
shared storage system in a
low
total-cost-of-ownership
package," said Bart Spriester,
Senior Vice President, Video
Products, at Harmonic.
"The
ContentStore
5840
provides the bandwidth and
capacity of ﬁve MediaGrid

ContentStore 3000 nodes and offers
users signiﬁcant cost savings per
terabyte."
The Harmonic ContentStore 5840
storage node compresses 15 rack
units' worth of conventional MediaGrid
storage into just 5RU and supports up
to 360TB of usable storage per chassis.
The new 84-drive MediaGrid
enclosure
features
redundant
controllers, SAS fabric and power
supplies; supports a choice of RAID 4
and RAID 6 conﬁgurations; and uses
4TB and 6TB SAS drive technology.
Harmonic say that the ContentStore
5840 supports various workﬂows,
including edit, post, media prep,
staging storage for playout, ingest and
multiscreen.
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