Another hint from our friends at Cat&Mouse, UK show control solution providers using Ventuz Broadcast. Confusion and Panic everywhere at last weeks EPT Poker Event in Berlin where 6 armed men stole the prize money. I wonder whether there is a ISO certificate for software being “robbery proofed”….. If so we should receive this certificate as Ventuz kept keying all the time :)
Archive for the ‘TV Broadcast’ Category
Brainbox & Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
July/22 2009BBC’s BRAINBOX is a great example for the flexibility of Ventuz for TV broadcast shows.
The combination of Ventuz Professional and Broadcast Edition gave the integrators “Cat&Mouse TV” the freedom needed for innovation!
as well the the US Edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is a nice prove.
Even if the contestants don’t know what “Bacardi” actually is …
Cat & Mouse TV
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“heute” 4.0
July/20 2009ZDF – Germany’s national public television broadcaster - updated their flagship 7pm news show “heute”. The redisign and technical modifications of the 700sqm virtual studio cost 30 million Euro.
The goal of the new studio is to meet the expectations of the “internet generation”, therefore ZDF uses many 3D animations and effects.
Unfortunately, it will take a while until viewers will get used to it. Comments from the internet chat about the new studio were mainly negative. Comments were ranging from “to funky, boring, surreal” to “give us back the old cosy studio”.
I would say nothing to worry about, people are always like this. It should not always be the Necessity which drives inventions. if no one takes the risk of changing a good running system …. there would be no need for us to invent all that funky stuff for you!
To be honest, it is not Ventuz which powers this new studio. Most probably this will have have one of the following reasons. First: decissions and processes in german public televison take a long time. We most probably didn’t even sold our broadcast edition when they started working on their new studio. Second: By choosing Ventuz, they would have had to much money left in their budget! 
But we are good sportsman … Congrats whoever did it!
We are ready to raise the bar even higher, therefore expect us to strike back!
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Augmented Reality – TabulaTrack
June/27 2009The first test with “Tabulatrack” was very successful. Trackmen and 4tv realized this POC. Ventuz receives OSC tracking data from the TabulaTrack system and displays the 2D and 3D objects in real-time. 4tv used the Ventuz Broadcast Edition with the Deltacast-hd-key-22 SDI board to generate the Fill+Key signals, keyed on a normal production mixer.
This test is just a prove of conecpt and the adaption to TabulaTack is not finalized yet, but it demonstrates again how flexible Ventuz actually is in receiveing and handling complex data – without any plugins!
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