In Broadcast - February 2015 - 10

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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 2 | February 2015

InNews
F7 Broadcast
Deploys Ellipse
IND/USA: Indian media company
F7 Broadcast has selected a
comprehensive contribution solution
from Harmonic for live events and
news coverage. Utilising Harmonic's
Ellipse 3200 contribution encoders
and ProView 7100 integrated
receiver-decoders, F7 Broadcast has
transitioned from DVB-S/MPEG-4 to
DVB-S2/MPEG-4 video delivery.
Harmonic's Ellipse and ProView
platforms provide F7 Broadcast with
a flexible and scalable end-to-end
contribution solution for DSNG,
enabling the media company to costeffectively expand from operating
one regional news channel to five
channels.

Telstra's Global
Media Switch
GBR: Telstra has launched Global
Media Switch - a professional
video delivery platform that allows
broadcasters and content creators
to schedule, manage and distribute
video in real-time across the world.
A highly resilient, IP-based delivery
network, Global Media Switch
provides customers with codeclevel connectivity directly from the
originating content source all the way
to the broadcast destination.
It can also be combined with Telstra's
Satellite Media Services, which
provide access to more than 20
communications satellites.

Cinegy Partners
With Trams
GER/GBR: Cinegy has announced
a partnership with UK-based
systems integrator Trams. Trams
MD Warren Peel said: "Cinegy Media
Asset Management technologies,
together with our Quantum Stornext
Pro solutions, enable customers
to accelerate revenue generation
through optimised workflows, whilst
archiving and protecting more
content at a lower cost."
Cinegy MD Daniella Weigner said
that the partnership would provide
broadcasters and production houses
in the UK with local access to Cinegy's
"world leading, innovative and cost
effective solutions".

Beauty Of Fujinon
Cabrio
D

irector of Photography and
producer with a degree in studio
art and a previous career as a sculptor,
Timur Civan takes pride in telling an
artistic story through his camera work.
His production company Tstop
Cinema LLC focuses on high-end
commercial and feature film work,
ranging from fashion and technology
projects, to cooking and Sesame Street
promos.
Over the last few years, one piece of
equipment Timur has relied upon is
the FUJINON PL 19-90mm Cabrio lens
(ZK4.7x19.) Most recently, he used it to
shoot a commercial for FILA sneakers
and commercials for the Home
Shopping Network (HSN).

When FUJIFILM Optical Devices
introduced the Cabrio 19-90 T2.9
lens in 2012, Timur was one of its first
customers.
"I'd just sold my previous lens
because it was expensive and was not
renting well, and was in the market for
a new one," he explained.
"At first I just thought that the Cabrio
would be a good rental item, which it
definitely is. What I didn't expect was
its high optical quality. Zoom lenses
with such a long focal range can
sometimes lack in image quality. But in
this case, FUJIFILM did an amazing job
with its image quality. The optics on
the lens are just beautiful."
Claiming the longest focal range
available in a lightweight zoom, the
FUJINON 19-90 Cabrio weighs in at
only 2.85kg, including its servo motors.

DoP Timur Civan on set

BH Telecom Installs PlayBox
Technology

B

H Telecom has invested in PlayBox
Technology
channel-in-a-box
systems for incorporation into its data
centre in Sarajevo.
"The PlayBox Technology system
fits in very well with BH Telecom's
essentially tapeless operation of two
new channels for its cable television
network," comments BH Telecom
Technical Director Admir Sabic.
"It consists of two AirBox channelin-a-box servers, one for each of
two HD programme channels, plus
Multi-Backup Manager which provides
failsafe automatic switchover to a
third AirBox if a primary server goes
down. The AirBox servers feed a digital
video broadcast multiplexer and UDP

switch."
The new servers give
BH Telecom the ability
to work with a live input
stream, adding graphics
when needed.
AirBox is a content
playout and streaming
system capable of operating both in SD
and HD.
Designed for 24/7 unattended
operation, it can be connected easily to
third-party devices.
AirBox supports MPEG1/2/H.264,
HDV and DV streams from practically
any production platform capable of
providing AVI, MPEG, MXF, QuickTime
or WMV content.

PlayBox Technology AirBox user interface

Multi-Backup Manager (MBM) is
designed for backing up multiple
playout channels simultaneously. If
a master is non-responsive for two
seconds, it will be automatically
replaced by a slave AirBox.
The contract was won on an opentender basis by Sarajevo-based
systems integration company BCH.
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