The object of the "Metechno" project is the realization of a new sports, news and technology center for the Swiss broadcast service provider tpc in Zurich. The technology center will provide technical and operational solutions for the entire production chain, from acquisition through studio and post-production to aggregation of the planned content. The project will implement innovative technologies including new workflows to enable future-oriented working methods. In addition, the technical infrastructure is designed in a way that all production areas can create their products independently of specific production formats. tpc pursues an "online first" strategy regarding content provision.

Signiant, a global provider of solutions that automate, accelerate and manage the secure transfer of file-based content for the media and entertainment industry, today announced that tpc (technology and production center switzerland ag) has built a value-added service incorporating Signiant Media Manager™. With the Signiant solution, tpc is able to support the live production workflows of its broadcasting clients with a secure, managed system for transferring digital media fast and efficiently.

Einladung zur Showtime im Studio 1 von tpc/SRF in Zürich-Leutschenbach!
Wir zeigen die wichtigsten und innovativsten Neuheiten der weltgrössten Broadcastmesse NAB Show® Las Vegas an der tpc PostNAB Show 2019.

Über 40 Aussteller präsentieren ihre neusten Produkte und Lösungen dem interessierten Schweizer Fachpublikum:

Technology and production center switzerland ag (tpc) builds one of the first OB vans for IP-based UHD live production worldwide, choosing Sony’s HDC-4300 camera. The multimedia market leader and technical service provider for radio and TV in Switzerland purchased 21 HDC-4300 cameras. The cameras are already in use and were chosen for their reliability and the possibility of producing in 4K when needed.

Swiss production and broadcast company tpc, part of the major Swiss public media business SRG SSR, is building a news, sport and technology center in Zurich. This all-IP center, built around the SMPTE ST 2110 family of standards, will use the Selenio™ Network Processor (SNP) from Imagine Communications to provide advanced IP-to-IP video and audio processing, as well as conversion between legacy SDI feeds and equipment and the newly built IP infrastructure.

Robe played a major role in delivering another stunning lighting design for the Total Production International (TPi) Awards, produced by TPi Magazine, part of Mondiale Media, an annual event to honour some of the best creative and technical achievements in the world of live entertainment for the preceding 12 months. TPi Awards 2020 was staged on Monday 24^th February at the Evolution venue in Battersea, central London, and was hosted by Russell Kane.

ChyronHego’s TRACAB team in Sweden has achieved another important milestone in its latest developments towards a semi-automated offside technology, based upon the Emmy^® Award-winning TRACAB Gen5 optical tracking system. At a June 22 video conference hosted by ChyronHego and attended by FIFA and its Working Group for Innovation Excellence, the TRACAB team presented a demonstration of powerful new capabilities in TRACAB OCT (Offside Calling Technology) (Story on FIFA Website). Exploiting its AI-driven ball tracking for automated ball pass detection, combined with limb tracking and skeletal modeling derived from video feeds, the technology is showing great promise to support referees in the future to make fast and highly accurate offside calling decisions.

Cobham Tactical Communications and Surveillance and its Chinese business partner, CSS Group, provided Cobham’s Solo H.264 ENG TX transmitters, the new PRORXD HD receivers, and associated camera control systems on behalf of host broadcaster CCTV for track and field coverage of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing from 22 - 30 August 2015.

Every January, the world’s best cross-country skiers head to Saalbach Hinterglemm to tackle Austria’s biggest and toughest touring race. This year, 1,200 competitors from 24 countries took on the Mountain Attack challenge, a series of events including a marathon ‘vertical race’, with a course up and over three mountain summits across the Austrian Alps. 

Private radio station ‘die neue welle’ (‘the new wave’) broadcast from South Germany’s ‘offerta 2012’ consumer show and took the ‘live’ literally. “We produced the programme without any safety net and even without a sound engineer in the home studio,” explains Andrea-Alexa Kuszák, CEO of the local station. This project was successfully completed by means of – amongst other things – a zirkon mixing console from Lawo, based in Rastatt, Germany.

Traffic Sports International, a rights-holder for several high-profile Brazilian soccer (football) clubs, has chosen GlobeCast to provide satellite contribution services for delivery of several high-profile Latin American soccer championships to fans in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Three-time Grammy® Award-winning American rock band Train is spending the summer on the road in the U.S. and Canada as part of their ‘Picasso at the Wheel’ tour. Joining the group is a pair of Solid State Logic L500 consoles, used at FOH, by Jason Moore, and monitors, by Rob Greene. A 15-year member of the Train audio team, first as a guitar tech, Greene has been mixing the group’s monitors since 2009. Having signed on as FOH for Train’s previous ‘Mermaids of Alcatraz’ tour, Moore has also mixed for the likes of Meatloaf, Selena Gomez, David Cook, Blake Lewis, Tonic, Grinspoon, Seven Mary Three and Sister Hazel.

PRG will offer training on their proprietary products such as: Mbox EXtreme® Media Server, Bad Boy® Luminaire, the V676® and V476 ™ Lighting Control Consoles, Series 400® Power & Data Distribution System and the Commander™ Motion Control Console. These highly acclaimed and widely used products have quickly become industry staples for designers, programmers and technicians in concerts, theatre, special events, film and television.

Principal Large Format (PLF) is delighted to announce that it will lead a three-day training course on 3D for cinema and television next January in London. Titled ‘Advanced 3D – The National Stereoscopic 3D Training Programme’, the course is being presented by PLF in association with Talking Point and funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund as part of A Bigger Future 2 and by Sky.

IBC recognises that training provision is a significant part of what it offers to the industry every year. That’s why it has developed a comprehensive programme of both free and paid for training at the show, allowing attendees to develop their skills and deepen their understanding of the kit, all the way from setting up a shoot to advanced post production techniques. Read more about some of what is on offer at the show below. And don’t forget – free registration runs out soon, so save yourself €60 on the show entrance price