NAB 2019 SportsTechBuzz in Review: South Lower Hall By SVG Staff
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 10:22 am
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The SVG editorial team was out in full force at last week's NAB Show, covering the biggest sports-technology news and delivering daily SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2019 roundups. Here is a look at the NAB 2019 SportsTechBuzz from South Lower Hall.
In this post, check out NAB 2019 news from Blackmagic Design, ChyronHego, Vizrt, Grass Valley, Ross Video, Quantum, Cobalt Digital, Signiant, Slomo.tv, Pebble Beach Systems, Disguise, Akamai, Imagine Communications, M2A Media, Spectra Logic, Hitomi, Open Broadcast Systems, Telestream, Deltacast, TSL Products, OpenDrives, VSN, RT Software, IBM Watson Media, Cloudian, Adder Technologies, SquareBox Systems/CatDV, Infortrend Technology, SportZcast, and FingerWorks Telestrators,
(l-to-r) Vincent Werbrouck and Jay Shinn of EVS; Marc Orgera of F&F Productions; and Quentin Grutman of EVS at NAB 2019.
XNet-VIA, EVS's Ethernet-based live media sharing network that facilitates ultra-fast sharing of high-resolution content between XT-VIA and XS-VA servers, has been introduced at NAB (Booth SL3816). As 1080p, UHD-4K (both SDR and HDR), as well as IP workflows become more prevalent, fast, efficient and secure Ethernet media sharing provides critical bandwidth and speed. The easily configured bidirectional network gives operators three times the bandwidth of EVS' legacy SDTI-based network to move high-resolution recorded media between EVS' latest generation of production servers at greater speed.
F&F Productions has selected the latest VIA technology from EVS (Booth SL3816). Moving into production of Full HD 1080p and 4K UHD HDR content, the mobile-production-facilities provider is equipping three of its signature GTX series units with EVS XT-VIA and XS-VIA production servers and the recently announced XNet-VIA Ethernet-based live-media-sharing network. The units can be transitioned to IP at a later date, with the VIA-based solutions already benefiting from enhanced live IP support of industry-tech stack standards like ST 2110 and NMOS. As part of the deal, which was agreed to at the 2019 NAB Show, F&F Productions will also upgrade its existing fleet of EVS live production servers to the latest Multicam 16.00 operating system.
AJA (Booth SL2416) announced new solutions and updates that streamline how broadcast, production, post, and A/V professionals produce dynamic, multiformat content. Topping the new lineup is the Ki Pro GO H.264 multichannel HD/SD recorder/player. Also new are 14 openGear converter cards featuring DashBoard software support, two IP video transmitters that bridge HDMI and 3G-SDI signals to SMPTE ST 2110, and the Corvid 44 12G I/O card for AJA Developers. AJA also introduced updates featuring improvements for its FS-HDR HDR/WCG converter, desktop and mobile I/O products, AJA Control Room software, HDR image analyzer, and HELO recorder/streamer. The Ki Pro GO is a genlock-free, multichannel H.264 HD and SD recorder/player with a flexible architecture designed for live production, sports, corporate events, training, houses of worship, and other applications. The portable device allows users to record up to four channels of pristine HD and SD content from SDI and HDMI sources to off-the-shelf USB media via 4X USB 3.0 ports, with a fifth port for redundant recording.
Blackmagic's Bob Caniglia, director, sales operations, North America
Blackmagic's (Booth SL216) Bob Caniglia, director, sales operations, North America, said that the ATEM Constellation 8K and UHD live production switcher cannot be overlooked for what it delivers for those working in 4K. For 8K it has 10 inputs and one ME but it is also a 40-inputs (at 12Gbps each), 4 ME switcher when it is in UHD, he stated. It's an economy of scale thing, and that also allows it be used today for one thing and then tomorrow for something else. And priced at $9,995 it proves that 8K production options don't need to break the bank.
ChyronHego (Booth SL1208) is using NAB 2019 to showcase a new graphics rendering product for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Fresh is based on the Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4, allowing it to deliver photorealistic AR and VR images. It includes a text rendering layer and supports Camio newsroom workflows. The company has also released version 3.5 of its Prime platform which now features HDR graphics creation capabilities.
The big customer news from ChyronHego at NAB involves the Dallas Cowboys. The NFL team is refreshing its in-stadium AV screen capabilities at the AT&T Stadium in Texas, moving to 4K and buying ChyronHego's Paint and Virtual 1st products to use for telestration so that fans inside the ground get a similar viewing experience to those watching on TV at home. Click Effects Prime will play a key role in the new setup, eventually driving 4K graphics to more than 3000 displays including a huge center-hung LED and two levels of ribbon boards.
Vizrt (Booth SL3308) is continuing to discuss its acquisition of Newtek at NAB, outlining the benefits of the merger to customers. When attempting to answer his own question about what happens next, however, CEO Michael Hall n had to admit that, we haven't really decided yet . Yet he did set the combined R&D teams a challenge, asking them to invent the next big thing once they start working together. It was noted that the two companies have $200m in combined sales, with 40% coming from the US and 40% from Europe.
On the product side, Vizrt is touting version 4 of Viz Engine. The update to the render engine includes a choice of three render pipelines: a new Reality Fusion render pipeline for added effects of realism ; an existing render pipeline to ensure full backward compatibility with previous work; and integration with third party
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NAB 2019 SportsTechBuzz in Review: South Lower Hall By SVG Staff 
