Pebble, the leading automation, content management and integrated channel specialist, has today announced the expansion of its UAE team, adding further support and project implementation capacity in the region with three key appointments. Building on its strong position in the Middle East market, the regional team will benefit from the addition of proven skill sets and experience, enabling the business to build on its recent growth momentum.

Veset has announced a range of new features for Veset Nimbus, its advanced linear TV channel management platform. The new updates make it easier to brand channels and monetise through ads.  

Interra Systems, a leading provider of content quality control (QC), monitoring, and analysis solutions to the digital media industry, announced that the company has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), a global community of AWS Partners that leverages programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings.

At CABSAT 2022, Interra Systems will showcase the company's innovative and award-winning QC and monitoring solutions. Interra Systems' solutions cover the entire gamut of content preparation and delivery, from audio/video quality checks to 24/7 monitoring, captions, lip sync, and deep-dive analysis. With Interra Systems' QC and monitoring solutions, media companies can address the most pressing needs of the industry, not just in terms of audio/video quality but also: creation and management of metadata, cloud and hybrid deployment, and tools to automate media processing and verification.

Three Media, a specialist media company in workflow and technology management, has added important functionality to its flagship XEN:Pipeline software suite. The business process platform, used to manage OTT, online and on demand services, now also covers linear channels, making it the ideal single-point content supply chain solution.

ATEME, the leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, today announced that its NEA solution now enables linear parity ad insertion. This means that multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) can now regionalize live streams for their OTT distribution, inserting regionally targeted ads on linear streams to match what is already happening in their cable and IPTV networks. With the infrastructure for linear parity in place, they are also ready for an easy upgrade toward fully personalized advertisements.

LTN Global announces the launch of a new LTN Schedule self-service offering, enabling content creators in the live entertainment, sports, and esports landscape to seamlessly run linear channels across multiple platforms using highly reliable and easy-to-use feature sets.

LTN Global, the industry leader in transformative media technology and video transport solutions, has today announced the launch of LTN Target, a market-first universal signaling solution.

Fragmentation in distribution platforms and ad decisioning systems, as well as manual workflows, have prevented linear channels from running national addressable ads at scale during live linear broadcasts. LTN Target integrates seamlessly with all parts of the advertising ecosystem to enable linear addressable advertising on any network, platform, and workflow.

Pebble Beach Systems, the leading automation, content management and integrated channel specialist, has announced the next wave of media orchestration with its new platform, Oceans.

Oceans is Pebble’s next generation service-oriented technology platform. Built for all clouds, but equally happy on-prem, Oceans will enable broadcasters to deploy, manage, host and upgrade their broadcast workflows and services from a single intuitive unified interface, now and in the IP future.

Crystal Vision has released a linear keyer that works with IP (SMPTE ST 2022 and ST 2110 video), with SDI or with both IP and SDI at the same time. The M-KEY can key one externally-generated graphic over a video stream or a matte and is a traditional linear keyer designed for those who use a character generator or graphics PC to provide their key and fill sources. The M-KEY is ideal for a wide range of channel branding and graphic overlay applications, while the mixed IP/SDI I/O means that it can provide a cost-effective solution for those using SDI caption generators to key into an IP feed, with the SDI to IP conversion included in the cost of the keyer. The M-KEY is a software app that runs on the MARBLE-V1 media processor hardware, a card housed in the Vision frame which features a powerful CPU/GPU processor and both SDI and 10GbE IP network interface connections.

Leading telecommunications and technology company, Telstra, is delighted to announce the expansion of its world-leading Telstra Global Media Network (GMN) into China and India, adding to the company’s already impressive capabilities in two of the world’s largest media markets.

“The points of presence in India and China have been strategically selected to provide connectivity to media broadcasters in the region,” comments Andreas Eriksson, Head of Telstra Broadcast Services. “These PoPs have been designed to provide exactly the degree of high availability and low latency required to meet professional media standards for live events, sports, esports, gaming and more. “The partnership with Zixi will also assists us to deliver high quality content to internet connect media buyers using Telstra’s high-capacity internet peering arrangements and cloud infrastructure.”

Pixel Power, the global leader in graphics production and playout automation, has appointed Sarah Deas to its head office team. Deas will provide internal sales support to the sales teams in the Cambridge base and regional offices in North America, South-East Asia and the Middle East.

On Booth SL7409 at the 2020 NAB Show Crystal Vision will be showing the latest picture processing software apps for its MARBLE-V1 media processor hardware, all of which can work with IP, with SDI or with both IP and SDI at the same time. The functionality offered by these apps – which support ST 2022, ST 2110 video and 31 different SDI standards including 1080p – includes web browser keying, linear keying, picture-in-picture, clean switching, video delay, colour correction and up and down conversion. Their support for multiple signal formats gives the easiest possible SDI to IP upgrade, while also making the apps perfect for mixed SDI and IP installations as well as fully IP environments. One of the booth highlights will be the unique M-WEBKEY IP/SDI web browser keyer app, which provides a cost-effective alternative to a full graphics system. Other SDI products on show include the popular Cleanit profanity delays and Safire 3 real-time chroma keyer.

DVB, an industry consortium that develops open, interoperable technical specifications for the delivery of digital media and broadcast services, today announced the approval of its DVB-I specification by the DVB Steering Board in Geneva. It has been published as DVB BlueBook A177.

The DVB-I specification aims to ensure that linear television delivered over the internet is as user-friendly and robust as a traditional broadcast television experience. It offers the possibility for linear television services to be delivered to any device with a suitable internet connection and media player, including TV sets, smartphones, tablets and media streaming devices.

"In developing an internet-centric solution for linear television services, we are providing the industry with a crucial missing piece that raises internet-based delivery to the same level in the DVB ecosystem as RF-based content delivery," said DVB Chair Peter MacAvock. "With these building blocks, addressing the discovery of DVB-I services and the delivery of programme metadata, DVB offers broadcasters and operators an exciting new deployment option."

The DVB-I specification defines DVB-I Service Lists, a means for internet-connected devices to find curated sets of linear television services that may be delivered through broadband or broadcast mechanisms. It also defines the methods to retrieve electronic programme data for those services, which can be integrated into a single coherent offering that is accessed through a consistent user interface.