SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2018: Wednesday's Latest From Vegas A quick tour of what's new, exciting, and interesting at the show By SVG Staff
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 7:50 am
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The NAB Show is in full swing in Las Vegas, and the SVG and SVG Europe editorial teams are onsite, covering all the latest news from the show floor. In an effort to make the tidal wave of news and announcements more digestible to our readers, SVG offers a daily SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2018 roundup. This daily rundown provides snippets of big announcements and what is on display at more than 150 booths at the LVCC.
This edition features Arista Networks, Audio-Technica, Axon Digital Design, Calrec, Clark Wire & Cable, Clear-Com, Dalet Digital Media Systems, EVS, Focusrite, Globecast, Grass Valley, High Rock Mobile TV, Hitomi, IBM Aspera, IHSE, Image Video, Limelight Networks, Marquis Broadcast, NEP, Professional Wireless, Quantum, Radio Active Design (RAD), Sennheiser, SES, SonoVTS, SVGW, Telestream, The Studio-B&H, The Switch, T-Mobile, V-Nova, Yospace.
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At NAB 2018, Clear-Com (Booth C6908) is presenting the BroaMan video, audio, intercom, and data-transport and routing solutions for the broadcast market. BroaMan is known for its masterful engineering of fiber-based media networks, says Simon Browne, VP, product management. The MUX22 Series products transport video, audio, intercom, and data on the duplex fiber infrastructure. The Repeat8-NANO Series are palm-size 3G-SDI or AES10-MADI signal media converters offered at an entry-level price. And the Route66 product family networks together BroaMan devices and selected third-party products into a maximum 40 40 matrix in different combinations of I/Os.
The TSI-4000 tally controller has a new web-based interface.
Image Video (Booth C5649) continues to enhance its TSI-4000 tally controller, introducing a new web-based interface this week. According to the company, the new interface will free truck EICs from having to spend setup time naming the TD's monitor wall. Instead, the TD can access the monitor wall via a tablet or laptop. In addition, Image Video added multi-configuration capabilities to its tally controller, enabling trucks to switch between different shows with greater ease and flexibility, and protocols to interface with a greater number of vendors and their products.
SonoVTS (Booth C8236) is here at NAB talking about a new software function for HDQline, HDR Ready, which has been developed in response to customer requests. Tobias Kronenwett, head of business development, says, HDR Ready has been created especially for use in mobile units, OBs, and flypacks, where people have to work in an HDR product environment but can't use HDR reference monitors because they're just too bright; they burn your eyes. So now users can run with our HDQline displays in HDR Ready mode. Users can purchase the display and put the software functionality on top, he adds.
With new headphones/headsets are prevalent around the show, Sennheiser (Booth C1307) launched its 300 PRO series. Available in August, the series comprises the HD 300 PRO and HD 300 PROtect monitoring headphones and HMD 300 PRO and single-sided HMD 301 PRO communications headsets.
Audio-Technica (Booth C6012) has announced the new BPHS2 broadcast stereo headset for news and sports broadcasting. It is based on the new ATH-M60x on-ear professional monitor headphones and uses the same 45-mm large-aperture drivers. It is available in the standard BPHS2 stereo and the BPHS2S single-ear versions, both with a hypercardioid dynamic mic, and the BPHS2C stereo with a condenser mic.
Clark Wire & Cable's new tactical fiber cables resist extreme bending, crushing, and rodents.
Clark Wire & Cable (Booth C8012) is showing off its new extreme tactical fiber cables, which consist of four single-mode or multimode OM4 fibers encased in a stainless-steel braid and a polyurethane jacket. According to the company, the cable is able to withstand extreme bending, crushing (for example, from a truck running over it), and rodents and is impervious to water and weather elements. We're getting a lot of interest on that, says President Shane Collins. There was a need for more durable, rugged, fiber-optic cable, and the addition of the stainless-steel braid and the second jacket just takes ours to a new level.
Focusrite (Booth C1147) has established the Focusrite Pro division, to serve the specific needs of broadcast audio professionals. It currently oversees three product ranges: Red multiformat audio interfaces, RedNet modular audio-over-IP solutions, and ISA microphone preamplifiers and analog signal processors. The new division is led by Richard Nevens, VP, global sales, who says, Focusrite Pro seeks to engage with professional audio clients, both pre- and post-sale, as they transition their workflows and facilities to an audio-over-IP infrastructure.
Calrec (Booth C7408) unveiled its Type R radio mix console, the company's first radio desk available for sale to the industry at large. (It had previously made a custom radio console for the BBC.) The Type R is modular and IP-based. Marketing Manager Kevin Emmott credits the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) for speeding integration of IP into broadcast by making sure its members were doing the needed R&D to make IP work for broadcast.
Wireless RF coordinators are finding the post-reallocation landscape even more complex than it was immediately after the auction. It's definitely become more complicated now, with T-Mobile lighting up their spectrum all over, says James Stoffo, CTO/principal, Radio Active Design (RAD) (Booth C1539). That has prompted development of a line of RAD UV1GN VHF-range wireless systems that work between 174 and 216 MHz. VHF has become the bar nobody goes to anymore because
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SportsTechBuzz at NAB 2018: Wednesday's Latest From Vegas A quick tour of what's new, exciting, and interesting at the show By SVG Staff 
