As broadcasters across Europe look to reinvigorate the audience experience, production professionals are rapidly getting on board with HDR. Although HDR displays are not yet standard in most homes, video acquired in HDR and delivered in SDR can still enhance the viewing experience, which has production teams looking at how they can best deliver simultaneous live HDR and SDR feeds. This trend introduces new challenges that Outside Broadcast (OB) powerhouse Arena Television is looking to solve. Drawing on its experiences with clients like the BBC, ITV and Sky Sports, the company has established a single HDR workflow concept to deliver live broadcasts in HDR and SDR, with SDR gaining from the HDR source and transformation. Recently deployed during the FA Cup Final broadcast, the workflow harnesses AJA’s FS-HDR HDR converter/frame sync, FS4 converter/frame-sync, and Hi5-4K-Plus Mini-Converters.

Videosys Broadcast is a leading supplier of quality camera control systems, RF links and camera backs to outside broadcast providers. At the forefront of technological innovation, Videosys Broadcast has successfully partnered with leading technology companies including, DTC, Wave Central, Hitachi, Panasonic, Ikegami, and Grass Valley . The company manages projects and design from concept to the finished article from its UK head office.
 

5G Broadcast enabling technology, together with file-based media solution innovations and a new satellite Ku-band uplink amplifier will form the cornerstones of Rohde & Schwarz’s exhibit at IBC 2019.
 

With around 50,000 visitors per day, the Electric Love Festival on the grounds of the Salzburgring is one of the largest EDM festivals in Europe. Live-Production met the team of the organizer Revolution Event and got insight into the implementation of the powerful Stages.

The mercury hit record highs as Warsaw sizzled in the European summer heatwave, whilst theatregoers visiting the Stanisław Witkiewicz STUDIO Theatre were treated to an equally hot performance of Cameron Mackintosh’s blockbusting musical ‘Les Misérables’ (school edition) staged by the  Śródmiejski Teatr Muzyczny (Downtown Musical Theatre).
 

Musical theatre is always a challenge from an audio perspective: plenty of cues, a ton of I/O, masses of RF, and lots of bodies on stage. But here is the thing: 40-45is not showing in a theatre. Equally, there is no stage or PA system. Instead, this unique production is set in a bespoke, expansive pop-up just outside Brussels with a 70m-wide blank canvas area, where the 1,600-strong audience, like the show's 50 cast members, is constantly moving – and listening entirely on headphones. At the core of its audio system is a DiGiCo SD7T with expander, running Quantum 7. 

The highly anticipated Eric Prydz EPIC 6.0 HOLOSPHERE debuted at Belgium’s Tomorrowland Festival last weekend, with Eric performing inside a giant video-mapped, 3D transparent LED sphere. The production was the latest in Prydz’s EPIC (​E​ric ​P​rydz ​I​n ​C​oncert​) series of jaw dropping visual spectaculars, realised by dream team, long term collaborators Liam Tomaszewski (Punkette), Ross Chapple (RCLD), Mark Calvert and Dave Green (RES) and Bryn Williams (Light Initiative) with the​ eight​-metre​-​high HOLOSPHERE forming the centrepiece of the new​ ​design.

As always, the team has worked hard to keep abreast of developments in the industry, and the innovations we introduce are, as always, driven by what our visitors want. So we have brought the IBC conference and exhibition back into alignment, instead of starting and finishing the conference a day earlier. When visitors could take the time to attend for the whole of IBC this made a great deal of sense, but we have to recognise that visitors today make much more targeted trips to IBC, and need to make the best use of their time.

IBC2019, the world’s most influential media, entertainment and technology show, will explore the technical and commercial opportunities and challenges of the rapidly growing world of Esports, with its first ever Esports Showcase on Tuesday 17 September. The IBC Esports showcase powered by ESL, EVS and Lagardère will feature a live esports tournament in the RAI Auditorium taking advantage of a unique combination of world-class tech placing spectators at the heart of the action.

 

Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is going to create two music series with the world-famous music festival Tomorrowland as its backdrop. The stylish 4K HDR productions will focus on the crazy antics of the people who come back to this fairytale festival year after year, as well as the globally renowned DJs and musicians who make this one of the most exciting music events worldwide.

Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore’s only dedicated contemporary arts college, has installed Riedel Communications’ Bolero wireless intercom in the school’s renowned Singapore Airlines Theatre. With its high audio quality and RF robustness, Bolero streamlines staff communications and facilitates the production of a broad range of performances. Operating in standalone mode, with no Artist mainframe required, the plug-and-play solution enables the technical crew at Lasalle College of the Arts to set the system up quickly at various locations across the campus.

NEP Europe has selected Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to enhance its capability with 75 IP-enabled 4K UHD HDR cameras and accompanying base stations. Strengthening its position as one of the world's leading outsourced production partners, NEP has taken delivery of the new live production equipment for deployment across its fleet of OB trucks and studios.

The acquisition follows recent purchases of Panasonic UHD system cameras and PTZ cameras, and means the company can now offer an even more comprehensive camera line-up, encompassing Sony, Grass Valley and Panasonic solutions. The HDC-3500 channels will service ES Broadcast Hire’s client base on both sides of the Atlantic, with the cameras available from the company’s UK, European and US hire desks.

Cardiff Metropolitan University traces its roots back to 1865, when they opened their first school in an old library. Now Cardiff Met is a global, practice-focused and professionally oriented institution, committed to ensure every student fulfills their potential to make outstanding contributions in their future industries.

“Our industry has undergone a significant transformation over the past 12 months, fuelled by the continued growth of cloud technologies and services, virtualisation of media services and the rising interest in AI and IP Live. We are looking forward to unveiling our range of new products and services that have been developed as a direct result of customer feedback and business needs at IBC. They will allow customers to address industry challenges with speed, greater flexibility, creativity and efficiency,” says Stuart Almond, Head of Intelligent Media Services, Sony Professional Solutions Europe.