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Appointments
Masstech Appoints
Kilpatrick As CEO
USA: George Kilpatrick has been
appointed as Masstech CEO, taking
over from Joe French.
French has stepped down from the
role after 20 years, culminating
in the merger between Masstech
Innovations and SGL.
"I'm very pleased to be joining
Masstech as CEO," said Kilpatrick.
"It's an exciting time for the
M&E industry, and Masstech has
a significant role to play. I'm
looking forward to helping guide
the company towards our goal of
harnessing the latest cloud and
ML innovations to deliver the most
innovative storage and content
management solutions to our
customers."
Kilpatrick joins Masstech from AWS
where he was Industry Lead, Media
& Entertainment, EMEA. Prior to
AWS, he was VP of Advanced
Digital Product Management at
Technicolor, and before that MD,
Technicolor Media Services.

Broadpeak Names
Jean-Claude Sachot
FRA: Broadpeak has named JeanClaude Sachot as the company's
Business Development Director.
In his role at Broadpeak, Sachot
will work with global pay-TV
operators, helping them take
advantage of the company's unique
solutions, such as the awardwinning nanoCDN multicastABR,
for providing cloud DVR services
as well as delivering live and VOD
streaming services at scale with
minimal latency.
"Jean-Claude has an extensive
understanding of the broadcast
media
technology
sector,"
said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at
Broadpeak. "Through his various
positions within Technicolor over
the last 20 years, Jean-Claude has
worked with some of the largest
pay-TV operators around the world
as they implemented innovative,
future-forward technologies."
Previously, Sachot was the VP
of Pre-Sales Video CPEs at
Technicolor.

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Silver Trak Media
Room 3 Player

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ilver Trak demonstrated its latest
technological addition to their
award winning Media Room solution,
a new frame accurate player that
now includes clipping, markers and
annotations, audio track selection,
caption extraction and more.
Over the last five years Silver Trak
has designed Media Room to be
an agnostic content management
platform. Developed for aggregating,
hosting, searching and delivering
media content anywhere in the
world, Media Room focuses on three
key concepts for content: security,
availability and usage.
Silver
Trak
COO
Christian
Christiansen said: "The new Media
Room 3 player is unique as it shows

proper SMPTE timecode. It also
has the ability to set in and out
points for clipping, create shot
lists and export clips and shot
lists with the added ability of
transcoding. This is a first."
Media Room was developed
in-house by Silver Trak Digital
to not only meet the demands of
content aggregation, usage and
delivery, but also to allow their
customers to take advantage
of the economies of scale as it
securely hosts multiple clients'
data and provides a very
affordable alternative to buying or
building one-off content management
and delivery systems.
Future development of Media

Silver Trak COO
Christian Christiansen

Room will target and incorporate
advanced technology such as live
stream capture, voice to text, facial
recognition and AI integration.

ChyronHego Releases PRIME 3.5

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hyronHego has introduced PRIME
3.5, the next generation of its
universal graphics platform.
Incorporating Click Effects PRIME
3.5, the turnkey graphics-authoring
solution for sports teams and
arenas to make live, stadium-based
presentations, PRIME 3.5 also features
end-to-end HDR capabilities for

PRIME 3.5 in use
in a control room

creating native HDR graphics and
outputting them to HDR channels,
including instant compatibility with
SDR content within an HDR playout
realm, eliminating the need to recreate
legacy SDR content.
Expanding its GPU capabilities,
PRIME 3.5 allows producers to scale
up to a much higher number of

pixels per physical output, or scale
across multiple outputs, even at UHD
resolutions.
"PRIME Graphics provides a single,
easy-to-use 4K- and IP-ready graphics
design and playout platform for
better storytelling in the studio or in
the stadium," said Teus Groenwoud,
Director of Product Development at
ChyronHego. "News producers, for
instance, can deliver anything from
a simple lower third or news ticker
to a sophisticated and eye-catching
video wall behind the anchor, or a
touch screen that a reporter can use
to illustrate the story. And now, with
GPU power, PRIME is unleashing
an almost infinite range of creative
possibilities for producing stunning AV
presentations for any canvas and in
any resolution."
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