IBC 2019 SportTechBuzz in Review: Halls 4-7
Summary
It features Comparative Analysis, a content-testing capability enabling users to run quality checks on various elements — picture structure, IMF packages, audio loudness, Dolby Vision HDR — as well aiding compliance and verification. The solutions address specific needs for core broadcast contribution and distribution applications and for delivering immersive OTT streaming services, multichannel HD or single-channel UHD, remote “at-home” production, and 360-degree video content, particularly around live events. It’s a stamp of approval in recognition of all the work we’ve done in integrating our render engine into Grass Valley’s Ice, Rio, Kahuna, and Kula.” Spectra Logic (7.B50) continues to expand its product portfolio beyond tape libraries, unveiling the intriguing new StorCycle storage-management software. According to CEO Dave Clack, the new web-browser client features a wholly redesigned mobile/tablet-friendly user experience and includes scrubbable video previews, CatChat collaboration with avatars, auto saving, and portrait as well as landscape media support. Through the partnership with EI Towers, The Switch’s U.S. customers now have access to games from any of the 24 stadiums in Italy’s Serie A — as they do with Germany’s Bundesliga through MTI — and Italian rightsholders will be able to broadcast live coverage of major North American sports, including NFL football and NBA basketball.