SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2019: Wednesday's Latest From Vegas

SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2019: Wednesday's Latest From Vegas By SVG Staff

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 8:34 am

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The NAB Show is in full swing in Las Vegas, and the SVG and SVG Europe editorial teams are chasing down the hottest stories from all over the LVCC show floor. To make the onslaught of announcements easily digestible for our readers, SVG is sending you a daily SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2019 roundup, with all the top stories gathered together in one easy to read blog from our newshounds.

Today's edition features Aldea, Alteros, Aperi, Arista Networks, Audio-Technica, Blackmagic, Brightcove, Canon, Cartoni, CBC, Clark Wire & Cable, Clear-Com, Cobalt Digital, Deltacast, Dixon Sports, DTC Broadcast, EVS, FOR-A America, Fujinon, Fraunhofer, Genelec, Ikegami, Image Video, IMT Vislink, Intelsat, JVCKENWOOD, Multidyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems, NEP Australia, Neutrik, Nevion, NTT, Ooyala, OpenDrives, Pliant Technologies, Quantum, RT Software, Sony, Synamedia, Tedial, Telestream, Telos Alliance, Teradek, The Switch, The Switch eSports, TSL Products, UFC, Vislink Technologies, VSN, Wave Central, Zaxcom, Zype.

NORTH HALL

Arista Networks (Booth N3008) has announced that CBC and NEP Australia were just two recent clients to benefit from its expertise in production applications. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing, high performance computing and high frequency trading environments. Robert Welch, Technical Solutions Architect, said that, We want to be as reliable as the network and to build solutions with our many partners . The company is showcasing its full range of switches in a range of booth demos that includes: high speed production control, open standards network control, virtual rack, monitor/manage, post production and over the top (OTT) streaming, broadcast partners and a AIMS virtual rack interoperability demonstration.

CENTRAL HALL

According to Genelec Marketing Manager Will Eggleston this year's NAB show is all about, immersive, immersive, immersive . The loudspeaker manufacturer (Booth C4748) is demonstrating a selection of its Active Monitors in an immersive 7.1.4 Atmos configuration. A great deal of our sales are going into immersive environments, he said. The demo places listeners in the middle of a 3D audio environment through the addition of four overhead height channels to the more traditional 7.1 horizontal surround space. The system is composed of S360A Smart Active Monitor (L-C-R), 8341A's (side and rear), 8331A's (overheads), and 7382A and 7360A subwoofers (sub and bass management). These models are used to demonstrate monitoring solutions for immersive mixing for music and post in Atmos and both are being showcased at NAB for the first time. Immersive audio is one of the most interesting trends in the industry, as it adds 3D realism to music, virtual reality, movies, gaming and more, concluded Eggleston. At NAB, we are giving attendees a taste of what they can experience with regard to immersive audio reproduction. It is a very compelling demo.

Ken Truong, president of FOR-A America (Booth C5016), said the company's offerings include not only next-generation 8K products but also an island made up of both 12Gbps SDI and IP products, showing the viability of hybrid environments for broadcasters looking to move forward. There is also a gateway between IP formats and also the conversion of baseband to IP and any flavor of IP to baseband, he noted. One of the product highlights is the HVS6000 production switcher with 12Gbps SDI inputs and up to 3ME with multiviewer and frame sync. There is also an optional board for IP, he concluded.

Wave Central is entering into a partnership with the UFC to provide wireless capabilities throughout the arena

Wave Central (Booth C6934) and DTC Broadcast are showcasing their extensive North American partnership at their shared booth at NAB 2019. Also, Wave Central is entering into a partnership with the UFC to provide wireless capabilities throughout the arena. After a successful demo at the last main event in Wichita, KS, the UFC was satisfied with the product. In addition to this new business relationship, Wave Central's line up of RF solutions is being showcased in a plethora of booths across the show floor. The company is catering to its vast list of clients by developing case-by-case applications that are customizable to their needs.

Canon (Booth C4425) is offering up a wealth of innovations in imaging but it is Aria, a feature that is currently available on all Canon box lenses when they are used with Sony cameras, that tops the list. Aria solves the problem of maintaining consistent brightness of an image as the camera operator zooms in on a subject. Larry Thorpe, Canon USA, senior fellow, said the feature was designed by both companies and begins with the lens sending focal length data to the Sony camera which, in turn, uses that data to ramp up the gain. And that increase is synchronous to the zoom so if the zoom is fast or slow the gain increase is fast or slow, he explained. The lens also reports zoom, focus, and iris to the camera which then takes that data to create waveforms that flatten out the brightness across the image. The result is a bright, clean, flat image that doesn't change over the focal range.

At Fujinon (Booth C7225) the UA125x8 lens with a 125x zoom and wide angle of 8mm with an F1.7 aperture is the major buzz item at a booth designed to also educate customers on why 4K lenses matter even for an HD show. This is the widest-angle box lens ever made as they are typically 9.5mm or 9.3mm but now we're going even wider so not only longer images but also wider, said Fujinon's Gordon Tubbs, VP, Broadcast and Communication Products

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