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Appointments
RED Digital Cinema
Names EMEA MD
USA: RED Digital Cinema has
appointed Alan Piper as Managing
Director for EMEA.
Piper will oversee operations,
sales, marketing, services, and
customer relationships in the
region, while expanding the
company's interface with postproduction facilities. He will
be based in the RED offices at
Pinewood Studios and will manage
the launch of RED's new storefront
facility in Soho early next year.
Jarred Land, President of RED,
said: "Alan is a highly respected
member of the filmmaking
community, and his expertise and
extensive relationships will be an
invaluable asset to our customers."
Piper was previously managing
director at Take 2, the largest RED
rental provider in the UK.
Piper has also served in
management and operational
roles at Lee Lighting,
Panavision Europe, and ARRI.

Pebble Beach Systems
Solutions Architecture
Head Appointed
GBR: Pebble Beach Systems has
appointed Yucel Timur as the
company's new Head of Solutions
Architecture.
Reporting to Pebble Beach
Systems' CEO Peter Mayhead,
Timur will lead the company's
team of solutions architects who
are responsible for the solutions
proposed and delivered to Pebble's
customers worldwide.
"This new role comes at an exciting
time for Pebble and the industry
as a whole, and it enables me to
leverage my experience across
the organisation - from pre-sales
through to development and
support. I'm looking forward to
playing a part in delivering the
broadcast solutions we offer now,
and in the future," said Timur.
Previously, Timur held senior
positions at Sony Professional
Solutions Europe and NOWTV
and led key technology
initiatives at the BBC.

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Riot Games Deploys
Nevion Virtuoso

R

iot Games has used Nevion's
software-defined media node
Virtuoso as part of its remote
production of the recent League of
Legends World Championship Final.
In doing so, Riot Games became one
of the very first organisations in the
world to leverage the ground-breaking
JPEG XS encoding technology.
Scott Adametz, Riot Games Esports
Technology Group Head explained:
"JPEG XS is a big step forward for
at-home production. It delivers
pristine visually lossless output
with ultra-low latency, making it
comparable to uncompressed video
but with a fraction of the bandwidth
consumption. This is very important
for a massive, high-profile global
production such as the League of
Legends World Championship Final,
where quality and immediacy are key

League of Legends World Championship Final
(Picture: Michal Konkol/Riot Games)

to the viewers' experience."
JPEG XS achieves high-quality
compression with ratios up to 10:1 at
sub-millisecond latency, i.e. a fraction
of a video frame - allowing gaming
fans and players watching at home
to see the action faster. For this
production, the JPEG XS compressed

video was transported using SMPTE ST
2110-22 over WAN (wide area network).
The League of Legends World
Championship has been described
as one of the biggest events in
esports history, with the 2018 World
Championship Final garnering 99.6
million unique viewers.

NEP Connect Delivers Anylive Solutions
For Women's Sports
N
EP Connect (formerly SIS LIVE),
has deployed satellite and Anylive
fibre solutions to major UK broadcast
clients, enabling global coverage of
top-flight women's sports events.
This includes major tournaments
and global championships for football,
cricket and netball.
NEP Connect provided satellite
capacity for a host broadcaster of the
women's global football championship
held in Paris earlier in the year. NEP's
IBC operation took feeds from the HBS,
both 1080p50 and UHD, recording
them as well as routing them to both
the broadcasters HQ Los Angeles and

the studio set-up based
out of NEP UK's UHD OB
truck, Aurora in Paris. NEP
also provided standards
conversion for the circuits.
The women's EnglandAustralia
cricket
tournament utilised NEP Connect's NEP Connect solutions for top-flight sports
Anylive network that connects 18 UK from the venue in July of this year.
cricket venues. The Anylive network
NEP Connect has also won the
connects more than 240 of the UK's contract to provide satellite capacity
key venues.
for all matches in the DELO Women's
Coverage of a global netball EHF Champions League.
competition held in Liverpool was
In addition, NEP has supported 26
also facilitated by NEP's Anylive fibre Women's Tennis Association events
network, providing robust connectivity around the globe in 2019.
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