Thomson at IBC 2008
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As in previous Septembers the Hannu Pro team visited the world's leading broadcast technology forum - IBC 2008. During five days Hannu Pro met its partners to discuss the process of introducing the most progressive technology to the Baltic market and collected additional information about recent developments. As before, Hannu Pro worked actively to organize direct meetings with manufacturers' representatives for its customers, to increase knowledge about the solutions offered.
One of most exciting surprises at the IBC was the Thomson GV Infinity digital media camcorder draw. From several hundreds participants the lucky one was Richardas Kazlauskas, a representative of Hannu Pro customer LNK. The new Thomson GV Infinity 1000/20 camcorder now will serve as a great complement to LNK's Thomson GV LDK studio camera line.
Thomson, which is an unique manufacturer, offering end-to-end turnkey solutions for every production and broadcast workflow phase, also presented its latest developments at the IBC.
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Thomson introduces new LDK 8000 Elite HD camera series for studios, news, and sports (LDK 4000 Elite, LDK 8000 Elite un LDK 8000 SportElite). New models feature new operating system, significantly improved sensitivity and ultra low signal to noise levels (60 dB) as well as supporting 720p or 1080i recording, with the LDK 8000 also supporting 1080p format.
»»» read more about Thomson GV Elite here
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Thomson unveils new LDK 8300 3X HD Super SloMo camera system capable of recording in different formats. Shooting at 150 frames per second, thanks to AnyLight technology, which reduces flickering, the new camera provides excellent picture quality even in complex 50Hz lighting environment as was seen during live transmissions from the Beijing Olympics and the UEFA EURO 2008 football championship, where 50 such cameras were engaged.
»»» read more about LDK 8300 3X HD here
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Thomson expands K2 servers with new K2 Summit HD production client for streamlined news and sports production. The new K2 Summit provides SD and HD video storage and multi-channel streaming also in slow motion; with support for P2 formats it is ideally suited for tape-less workflows. K2 Summit offers many advanced features such as:
· four bidirectional SD/HD channels,
· clip dissolves and effects using just one play-out channel,
· minimal 10 frame record-to-play delay,
· parallel encoding of high and low resolution streams,
· high quality slow motion (SloMo),
· dynamic multi-viewer supporting all channels,
· SAS and flash HDD support, as well as many more,
· more supported formats will be added: MPEG, D10, AVC Intra, J2000 and others.
K2 Summit can now be complemented with the new K2 Dyno replay controller with touch screen interface to provide a cost-effective replay solution for fast-paced sports and live event environments.
»»» read more about K2 Summit here
»»» read more about K2 Dyno here
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Thomson's Infinity Digital Media Camcorder (DMC) expands workflow with additional format support including IMX D10 and supports recording of HD 1080i. 720p, 1080p video with bit rates up to 100 Mbps (4:2:2) to RevPro XP/ER, CompactFlash or external USB media, thus reducing operation costs and production time thanks to native support (without transcoding) of these formats in Aurora and EDIUS nonlinear editing environments. Thomson has added a Cine-style option to Infinity to support recording of full HD 1080p (23.97/25/29.97) and of course, the user can switch any of these formats just before recording. The camcorder is also enhanced by new CineForm I-J2K suite for JPEG 2000 (4:2:2) workflow to support Adobe CS3 and Apple FCP editing. Thanks to collaboration between Thomson and Telecast Fiber Systems Infinity DMC now can be equipped with CopperHead gear, which allows the transmission of the signal over long distances and enables remote control by an OCP400 controller, thus making it a cost effective camera solution for TV studios.
»»» read more about Infinity DMC here
»»» read more about Infinity's DMC 24p features here
»»» read more about Telecast Fiber Systems solution for Infinity here
»»» read more about CineForm solution for Infinity here
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Thomson's introduces EDIUS V5 editing software, which combines both EDIUS Pro and EDIUS features, now offering more power and wider third-party support including J2 K. EDIUS 5 allows native editing of J2K, JVC's ProHD 25 Mbps and AVC-Intra formats even in YUV without transcoding and supports wide variety of other formats, such as XDCAM 4:2:2, Ikegami GF, AVCHD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX and many more. A selection of third party effect tools (ProDAD, NewBlueFX, iZotope, Corel, Artbeats) is bundled with the EDIUS 5 release.
»»» read more about EDIUS 5 here
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Thomson unveils new PCI Express video input output/cards series with built in Canopus HQ hardware codec to support real time full HD preview - HDSTORM HDMI-based HD I/O board with optional HDSTORM Plus component and S-video output bay to super charge HD editing, HDTHUNDER HDMI-based board with SDI output and a HDSPARK HDMI output board. EDIUS 5 is included with all thee cards.
»»» read more about HDSTORM solution here
»»» read more about HDTHUNDER and HDSPARK solutions here
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Thomson streamlines file-based production with new FIRECODER transcoding cards: FIRECODER Blu PCIe to transcode between AVCHD and MPEG2 and FIRECODER Intra for large shared-storage production environments and offering superior transcoding for broadcasters using Panasonic's AVC-Intra compression scheme.
»»» read more about FIRECODER solutions here
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Thomson new ViBE simplifies head-end design with ViBE Mosaic Channel Generator for IPTV, DVB-T and cable multi-channel broadcasts systems, as well as ViBE Transcoder for H.264 encoding of MPEG2 streams.
»»» read more about ViBE Mosaic here
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Announcing new ViBE/NetProcessor solution Thomson enters the video contribution and distribution (C&D) arena with new innovative solutions, which enable high quality content exchange over telecommunication and satellite networks.
»»» read more about ViBE/NetProcessor solutions here
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Thomson upgrades SmartVision launching Hybrid Video on Demand solutions for satellite and terrestrial networks. New THOMsuite technology allows faster switching from traditional to personalized broadcasting.
»»» read more about Hybrid VoD THOMsuite here
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Thomson launches new Trinix NXT router for security, density, and performance, which is capable of processing 1080p 3GBps signals sent over a distances up to 100m.
»»» read more about Trinix NXT here
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Thomson showcases personalised TV and targeted advertising features for its world-leading SmartVision IPTV solution.
»»» read more about SmartVision update here
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