SportTech Buzz from IBC 2019: Tuesday's latest from Amsterdam

SportTech Buzz from IBC 2019: Tuesday's latest from Amsterdam By SVG Staff

Monday, September 16, 2019 - 21:00

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IBC is in full swing, and the SVG Europe and SVG editorial teams are chasing down the hottest stories at Rai Amsterdam. To make the onslaught of announcements easily digestible for our readers, SVG Europe is sending you a daily SportsTechBuzz at IBC 2019, with all the top stories from our reporters assembled into one easy-to-read blog.

Today's edition features Adder, Arista, Blackmagic Design, Brightcove, Broadcast Solutions, Calrec Audio, Camera Corps, Clear-Com, Dell, Disguise, Dream Chip Technologies, Harmonic, Hitomi, Ikegami, Leader Electronics, Masstech, Matrox Video, MediaKind, Mobile Viewpoint, Ncam Technologies, Shotover, Tellyo Videosys, Broadcast, V-Nova, Wildmoka, Wowza Media Systems, Xytech.

HALLS 1-3

On the Hitomi stand (2.C11), the team is talking about MatchBox Glass, launched here in Amsterdam. The free iOS app for near-instant lip-sync alignment of mics and cameras enables quick and reliable camera line-up into trucks, remote-production facilities, or newsgathering operations. When an iPhone or iPad running the app is held in shot, the Hitomi analyser can instantly verify camera and mic timing alignments. Glass is the answer to a time-consuming and error-prone process, according to the company. Says Lead Engineer Steve Pritchard, We've made solving lip sync as easy as holding your phone to the camera.

Harmonic (1.B20) has been working with Google and 3SS to create an integrated OTT and live-broadcast-sports workflow on Android TV, delivering tailored features, such as picture-in-picture, multiview, and personalised mosaic. On the Harmonic and Google stands, the companies are demonstrating how pay-TV operators can now deliver personalised, low-latency live sports experiences on OTT and hybrid set-top boxes using Harmonic's VOS cloud-native live-video platform, a powerful UHD STB, and the 3READY custom launcher application from 3SS. The demo incorporates Harmonic's containerised VOS software platform, spanning content preparation through origin server, hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Enabling unified OTT and broadcast-delivery workflows, the VOS platform ensures low latency and great picture quality for all multistream applications, improving the live sports experience.

HALLS 4-7

Ncam Technologies (7.D36) has remodelled its camera bar to make it smaller and lighter, giving sports broadcasters and other media producers greater creative freedom when doing real-time AR. Being previewed at IBC 2019, the Mk2 features Intel RealSense technology that captures spatial data, which is then fed to the Ncam Reality server. The weight improvements will be particularly useful for handheld and stabilised/Steadicam use, and the compact size will allow better-balanced rigging and more-flexible mounting options. Says CEO Nic Hatch, The combination of Ncam's software and industry knowledge, Intel RealSense technology, and HP's trusted workstations enable us to manufacture smaller, lighter, more robust, and more powerful products like the Mk2 as we continue to develop the most accurate camera-tracking products available. The Mk2 is due to be released in first quarter 2020. All existing Ncam customers will have an upgrade path.

An intelligent storage-, workflow-, and lifecycle-management application for video assets is being showcased by Masstech (7.C55). The Kumulate modular platform allows users to build an object-storage ecosystem that includes asset management, workflow orchestration, and transcoding. It can be deployed across public cloud, private cloud, on-premises disk or tape to create workflows that automate media ingest, transcoding, packaging, and delivery.

Wildmoka (5.C32) has announced a new StoryBot feature on its platform. StoryBot creates automatic reels for all sports but is particularly focused on football. Comments Marketing Manager Lucille Mari, Mashups are made automatically because the platform recognises what scenario you want to create, i.e. goals; then will publish to multiple destinations, such as social, OTT platforms, and CMS. These days, you need to be very fast [to publish content], and that's what we're doing. The company has also announced that Avid's new MediaCentral Publisher is powered by Wildmoka, enabling media companies to create content, add graphics and branding, and publish news and sports videos quickly to social media to boost viewership and drive additional revenues.

Blackmagic Design (7.B45) is talking all about scalability and innovation. With a vast array of products on show, the company is showcasing its ability to cover everything from the simplest broadcast to BT Sport's demonstration of a live 8K broadcast at IBC 2019 this weekend. Simon Westland, marketing director, EMEA, says, It's not always about the bigger, the better, the faster; it's about what you need. People can build a solution that is cost-effective to the size of what they're doing; sports doesn't always mean a £4 million OB van. He adds that broadcasters are becoming truly innovative in what they are working on technologically. For example, he notes, BT Sport has revolutionised sports broadcasting with their use of technology in terms of their multiplatform approach. They are using all these platforms hand on hand. Organisations like that really affect where [Blackmagic are] going with product development; the demands they're setting us push us equally. Technology has to support the speed at which broadcasters are evolving.

Dell (7.C39) is talking about its full range of products for sports broadcasters. Says Simon Haywood, CTO, media and entertainment, EMEA, We have everything from servers to storage to virtualised infrastructure to support the apps that sports br

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