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Autocue forms Ideal Systems partnership in Asia
Autocue, the leading provider of prompting and newsroom automation solutions, has further strengthened its dedication to the Asian market with the announcement that it has partnered with major systems integrator Ideal Systems Asia Pacific Ltd in the Indian and Thailand territories. Ideal Systems, founded in 1989, has grown from a single representative in Asia to one of the region’s leading systems integrators and distributors.
This key partnership will see Ideal Systems promoting Autocues Professional Series Prompter range and QSeries Newsroom applications. As a result of this new relationship, Autocues product portfolio will play a major role on the Ideal Systems booth (C 25) at the BES Expo 2007 from the 1st 3rd February 2007 in New Delhi, India.
Mala Mathur, Ideal Systems Director in India commented, Autocue is the acknowledged technology leader in teleprompting and newsroom applications worldwide. In a vast market like India where there are multiple languages to support Autocue has proven its capabilities. Ideal Systems as pioneers and leaders in the systems integration arena will synergise its technical and marketing strength with those of Autocue. This will lead to further opportunities in the Indian subcontinent market.
Declan Coleman, Ideal Systems Director in Thailand added, Autocue is ubiquitous in the teleprompting arena. The company has a unique and ground-breaking network based architecture and a very strong brand name in the broadcast market. I am looking forward to further developing our relationship in the coming months.
We are delighted to announce this partnership with Ideal Systems in Asia. Autocue has strong ties with broadcasters worldwide and we are excited at the prospect of further enhancing the companys presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Ideal Systems is very highly regarded across the globe as a leader in systems integration and we look forward to a long and successful partnership. This extension of our global reach comes at an opportune moment, enabling us to fully exploit the introduction of our groundbreaking IP-based, networked prompting solution, QNxt. We will be making further announcements in the New Year as we continue to grow our partner base, concluded Frank Hyman, Autocues Sales & Marketing Director.
Its Podcasting Week on WRN
From 2nd December, listeners to WRNs English language international news and current affairs satellite radio networks in North America, Europe, Africa and the Asia Pacific region will be tuning into Podcasting Week which is profiling the rapid rise of podcasting as an important method of content distribution and the benefits it brings to listeners.
During Podcasting Week, WRNs English networks will broadcast a series of specially produced programmes and trailers featuring interviews with podcasting experts and pioneers from Virgin Radio, Radio Sweden, top British production company Something Else and Hive Networks as well as WRN. These interviews will examine all aspects of podcasting, from its origins to its future and will be available in their entirety on the WRN podcasting page: www.wrn.org/podcasting. The Week follows the very successful first phase for the WRN podcasting service which was launched in May 2006.
Harry Holgate, a Network Producer at WRN who is overseeing the Week, says, With Podcasting Week we want to bring the concept of podcasting to all our listeners around the world so they understand what it is and how they begin using the WRN podcasting service to download and listen again to their favourite shows at times that suit them.
WRN aggregates, schedules and broadcasts daily and weekly shows from many international public radio stations on its networks which, in turn, are distributed to listeners on market-leading and innovative digital platforms around the world such as Sirius Satellite Radio in the USA and Canada, via mobile phones in the US with UpSnap, Sky digital in the UK and WorldSpace Satellite Radio across Europe, Africa and Asia.
WRNs Podcasting Week finishes on 10th December.
RadioScape shortens time to market for DAB products
Building on the success of its award-winning DAB/FM modules, RadioScape has announced the RSC03 clock radio subsystem. It is the first of a new family of DAB subsystems and provides an even higher level of system integration for manufacturers. This reduces costs, design complexity, and, most significantly, can substantially cut time-to-market for radio manufacturers in this product category.
Phil Smith, RadioScapes Senior VP for Sales and Operations, said, Increasing the level of integration has proved very popular with our customers, allowing them to fully evaluate the product on day one. Another first for RadioScape is being able to offer a custom display to complement the subsystem. Clock radios require something different to the LCDs commonly used on other DAB products and we have invested to support our customers with a large, easy to read display that is specially designed for clock radio applications.
The RadioScape RSC03 is a complete DAB/FM clock radio subsystem that only requires an external DC power supply, speaker, LCD display, button board, and enclosure to complete the product. The need for a motherboard is eliminated as the power supply and audio amplifiers are fully integrated into the subsystem. This reduces the manufacturing steps to just one assembly run. Its construction and compact form factor makes it suitable for many enclosure designs.
The subsystem approach once again leverages RadioScapes flexible software defined radio architecture, which enables customers to easily create product differentiation by changing and adding features via software as required. This combination is unique to RadioScape and will allow our customers to bring products to market in less than 100 days, added Smith.
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The clock radio features that have been incorporated include an auto back light dimming option, off-air time update, automatic daylight saving, 3 programmable alarms, five presets, Sleep and Snooze. The individual alarm volumes can be programmed to rise to specific levels, independently of the main volume. RadioScape can also supply a large character custom LCD that is ideal for this application with a choice of blue STN and blue or amber TN. The LCD and subsystem form a single unit measuring only 109mm by 50mm by 32 mm.
A number of customers have already started production of DAB clock radios using the RSC03, which will be in the shops soon.
Simon Parslow, Director of New Product Development and Marketing at Acoustic Solutions, said, “Using the RSC03 meant we had something to demonstrate to the retailers right at the start of the project. Designing in the RSC03 was very simple and enabled us to get the first products rolling off the production line in just 90 days.”
Harris NEXIO server and editing platforms for Pro TV Romania
Harris Corporation announced that Central European Media Enterprise’s (CME) subsidiary, Pro TV Romania, has taken delivery of a turnkey digital newsroom system as part of CME’s transition to an automated, networked, tapeless environment. The sale, which was made by the Harris local distributor and systems integrator in Romania, Hydra Ltd., includes a cluster of five Harris® NEXIO server platforms, eight NewsFlash® high-resolution news editors, 20 NewsFlash® Preditor low-resolution desktop editors, and eight VelocityQ craft editing systems. The new CME facility will provide news programming for Romania.
“Harris provided us with the optimal solution to meet our needs as we transitioned to a tapeless newsroom environment, both in terms of the product offering and the support offered by the Harris local distributor and systems integrator, Hydra Ltd.,” said George Iliescu, deputy general director at Pro TV Romania. “Our journalists had recently made the decision to use the ENPS newsroom computer system, so it was essential to have a server system that would smoothly integrate with ENPS, and the NEXIO servers provided this solution seamlessly.”
“The installation at Pro TV Romania is a significant application of our NEXIO server and NewsFlash editing solutions in a newsroom environment where reporting is time critical,” said Dave Dougall, vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the Harris Broadcast Communications Division. “Turnaround of material is extremely fast through the NEXIO servers, as both high- and low-resolution non-linear editors can start working while the material is being ingested. Journalists can simultaneously browse and edit low-resolution content at their desktops and send the material to playout.”
At Pro TV the Preditor low-resolution desktop editors with integrated NRCS (newsroom computer system) tools are attached to the central storage, enabling the journalists to easily tie scripts to video from one simple interface.
NewsFlash news editors and VelocityQ craft editing systems provide high-resolution editing capability. Of the eight VelocityQ craft editing systems, four are dedicated to news, two to promos and two for repurposing content, particularly for the Internet.
In Romania, CME currently broadcasts four channels: Pro TV, the main network that transmits a broad mix of programmes, including news, sports and entertainment; Acasa, a lifestyle channel largely aimed at women; Pro Cinema, a premium movie channel; and Pro TV International, broadcast outside Romania’s borders, which is aimed at expatriates around the world.
Over the next year, CME plans to add at least two more channels, including an HD service, which will be the first in Eastern Europe.
NEXIO is a modular, scalable server system for transmission and news environments, which offers integrated application platforms for editing, browsing and media management across a multi-tiered storage hierarchy. As an operation grows, the NEXIO design allows users to build systems of up to 28.8 terabytes in a single domain in small, low-cost increments. The NewsFlash high-resolution news editor sets industry standards for speed of editing and turnaround. The key is direct Fibre Channel access to shared NEXIO storage by all users, without delay or restriction. More important, all seats can begin editing the moment that ingest begins, enabling a true collaborative environment.