In Broadcast - July 2015 - 8

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 7 | July 2015

InNews
D-Smart Chooses
Broadpeak Solution
FRA: Turkish DTH provider
D-Smart has deployed Broadpeak's
umbrellaCDN solution to support
its OTT service offering.
Using Broadpeak's award-winning
CDN selection tool, D-Smart can
dynamically offload traffic to thirdparty CDNs in order to address
peaks in live video consumption.
By allowing D-Smart to manage
many simultaneous live sessions,
with
minimum
investment
in
network
infrastructure,
umbrellaCDN ensures the best
Quality of Experience (QoE) for end
users at an optimum cost.

12G-SDI UHD Test
From Omnitek
GBR: Omnitek has shipped a
number of pre-ordered UHD Ultra
4K Tool Box units with, what is
hailed as, the world's first 12G-SDI
test technology.
Omnitek says its lead in high speed
video data technology is initially
being applied to handling 12G-SDI
as a 4K/60 connection format,
but the capability to process these
speeds of data efficiently also has
applications in HDR, extended
colour gamuts (Rec 2020), HFR and
8K resolutions (UHD-2).

SGL Intros Direct
ISIS Connection
GBR: SGL has introduced Direct
Connect for use within the SGL
and Avid ISIS shared storage
environment.
Direct Connect allows users to
quickly transfer high resolution
material providing significant
benefits when working with longer
form content.
Using Direct Connect, clips or
sequences over several GBs in
size can be archived and retrieved
significantly faster, as can shorter
clips with high bit rates such as HD
trailers and commercials.

Globecast Launches Premier
Sports HD On Sky Platform
G

lobecast has been chosen as the
content delivery service provider
for Premier Sports HD, the new HD
channel from Setanta Sports' UK
operation Premier Sports.
Juliet Bayliss, Sales Director, Content
Distribution at Globecast, said: "We've
been working with Premier Sports/
Setanta for many years now, so we're
delighted that they have chosen us to
help launch the new HD channel.
"There's a real demand for HD
channels and we're seeing a growing
uptake amongst our client base and
we've provided uplinking and capacity
for several HD channels in the recent
months."
Globecast has a longstanding
relationship with the broadcaster and
already provides uplink and satellite
capacity for existing SD channels

Premier Sports and Setanta Sports
Ireland, also available via the Sky
platform.
Premier Sports CEO Mickey O'Rourke
said: "Globecast was already familiar
with our business and asking them to
help us launch our HD channel was just
a logical step in our relationship.
"HD is something that there's a real
demand for from sports fans; the
expectation is that watching a game
on TV is as close to being there as
possible.
"That's what we're trying to deliver
with the addition of Premier Sports
HD."
The channel will be added to
Globecast's extensive HD portfolio,
with the company providing the uplink
and satellite capacity on Astra 2G for
the new Premier Sports HD offering.

Juliet Bayliss,
Sales Director,
Content
Distribution,
Globecast

Bolivia TV Purchases FOR-A Gear
B

roadcast television station Bolivia
TV has purchased a variety of video
production equipment from FOR-A as
part of the station's transition to HD.
Bolivia TV's FOR-A equipment order
included video switchers, character
generators, signal processors and
routing switchers.
Included in the purchase are 10

FOR-A HVS-110
portable video switcher

HVS-110 portable video switchers.
Boasting exceptional cost performance
and an integrated main unit and
control panel, FOR-A's HVS-110 unit
offers mixed HD/SD input, frame
synchronising, resizing engine, 2.5D
wipe effects, DVE, chromakeyer
and DSK. The switcher features a
multiviewer, clip memory feature, and
built-in Web server.
Bolivia TV also selected 10
MFR-3232
routing
switchers
-
a
32-input, 32-output
unit that includes an
interface function for
synchronous operation
by
linking
multiple
cases, tally and automatic
source name tracking

connections with peripheral devices.
The broadcaster also purchased
10 VTW-350HS HD/SD character
generators. FOR-A says that the VTW350HS's lightweight, compact design
and rich toolset makes it an ideal fit for
Bolivia TV's live applications.
Bolivia TV also purchased 10 FOR-A
FA-9520 signal processors. The FA9520 3G/HD/SD dual channel multipurpose signal processor features
up/down/cross/aspect
conversion,
full colour correction and automatic
video optimiser, in addition to its
functionality as a frame synchroniser.
The La Paz-based station provides
public broadcasting content for a wide
audience, including newscasts, public
affairs programming and cultural
shows.

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