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Thomson Scoops Multiple Awards at IBC2007
September 25, 2007
Source: Thomson
Four very different
Thomson products won awards at IBC2007, demonstrating the
breadth of the company’s offering as well as the excellence
of its solutions. It took two “Pick Hit” awards
from Broadcast Engineering magazine, a “Best of IBC”
award from TVB Europe plus the best content on demand prize
in the Cable & Satellite International Awards.
The C&SI award recognized that Thomson,
with its SmartVision service management platform and Sapphire
high-bandwidth server, offers a complete video on demand package
that is well integrated, simple to implement and proven by
many service providers. Together they give cable and IPTV
operators a swift and seamless way to deliver compelling services
such as network timeshifting and catch-up television as well
as video on demand.
TVB Europe magazine made the new generation
of ViBE MPEG-4 encoders from Thomson one of its Best of IBC
winners. The new encoders provide unrivalled compression performance
thanks to the use of Mustang, a dedicated digital video processing
chip developed by Thomson. By using this bespoke chip the
new ViBE encoders can take advantage of the complete MPEG-4
toolkit, allowing it to deliver high quality high definition
television in as little as 4 Mb/s.
The first of the Broadcast Engineering Pick
Hit awards went to the Grass Valley Infinity™ Digital
Media Camcorder from Thomson, the highly innovative, multi-format
acquisition device. Infinity captures standard definition
and high definition images and sound, recording them onto
a choice of open formats including REV PRO disks, professional
grade Compact Flash cards, and USB or Firewire drives. IBC
TV News this year was shot entirely in HD, using three Infinity
camcorders recording to REV PRO disks.
The second Pick Hit award went to the Ignite
integrated production solution from Thomson. Ignite is designed
to produce news and other live event programming with a minimum
of technical staff, allowing resources to be diverted to more
creative and productive tasks. During a broadcast a single
operator can control the complete production from a touch-screen
user interface, maintaining a consistent and dynamic look
and feel to the content.
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