At IBC2008 NETIA will highlight its ManreoTM software range, designed to maximize productivity gains in media asset management and use of rich media, which can then be repurposed and published to multiple platforms, including mobile devices.

Hypercast IP Recorder and Hypercast IP Player Modules
Shown for the first time at NAB2008 and now making their IBC debut are NETIA's new Hypercast IP Recorder and Hypercast IP Player modules for ManreoTM. These two new software modules allow Manreo users to simplify the acquisition and distribution of IP-based content.

The Hypercast IP Recorder and Hypercast IP Player modules reduce the complexity of taking SDI video from the camera to editing by eliminating the need for a video server. A simple file server and a facility's existing architecture can instead be leveraged for acquisition and delivery of digital video. The Hypercast IP Recorder streamlines acquisition of SDI content, accepting the encoded IP stream and delivering media to the file server, where it's available for editing, archiving, and automatic indexing.

The elimination of the video recorder, video grid, and video encoder reduces overall costs and supports a fast, completely digital workflow with more timely delivery of rushes and replays of live content with delay. A simple computer system can be used for review and quality control.

Warehouse Web 2.0
NETIA will highlight its Warehouse Web Version 2.0 audio and video broadcast and display platform, which provides new services and revenue-generation opportunities for ManreoTM users. This full-featured software solution provides companies with a system for centralizing, sharing, and viewing audio, image, and video archives, and subsequently broadcasting them across multiple distribution channels (Web portals, mobile devices, ADSL, etc.). Because Warehouse Web 2.0 has been developed using the REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture and includes XML Web Services, it offers up to four easy-to-use interfaces that make the system even more ergonomic and powerful.

Warehouse Web's Catalog Interface offers Manreo users a global view of all files and metadata, along with more powerful searches. The Terminology Interface manages the thesaurus and allows users to add, delete, and modify words and the interaction among words. The Media Interface manages the storage of both audio and video files. Using this interface, users can view various files and file format support. Finally, Warehouse Web's Monitoring Interface lets the user track file conversion and publishing workflows to various platforms, including mobile phones.

ManreoTM Video Recorder Module
The Video Recorder module within the ManreoTM suite is used to acquire and digitize video from tape. With functionality including start, stop, forward, rewind, Manreo Video Recorder controls the VTR and launches the acquisition and digitization (MPEG-2 with MainConcept) process. For TV stations and other media companies with large stores of tape-based archives, Manreo Video Recorder enables migration to lossless and more secure digital storage.

The migration of media libraries to digital is critical to preserving media, but it also can be a very demanding process. This latest addition to the Manreo product line uses the RS-232 and RS-422 protocol to control external VTRs and allows users to connect a jog/shuttle control via a USB port for easy navigation. The operator can watch video as the media is being digitized and even mark in and out points to create a clip or a new video, produced automatically from a series of marked segments.

Radio-AssistTM 7.5 Range of Digital Audio Software

Radio-AssistTM 7.5 Enhanced With New Web-Based Capabilities
NETIA has enhanced its Radio-AssistTM 7.5 range of digital audio software with new Web-based capabilities that allow journalists to seamlessly browse, access, and edit audio clips directly from their station's database, thus streamlining content creation and production workflows. First introduced at NAB2008, the new Web-based functionality is making its international debut at IBC.

The Radio-Assist 7.5 range of digital audio software programs covers each part of the production and broadcast workflow, allowing users to record, edit, or prepare a playlist. Radio-Assist features tools for acquisition, sound-file editing, commercial and music production, newsroom systems, scheduling, multicasting, administration, and more. With its modular structure, it can adapt to the different requirements of radio facilities and integrate rapidly into an existing environment. Equipped with new features that further enrich production and playout processes, Radio-Assist 7.5 offers a one-stop solution that enables even more flexible handling of media.

NETIA to Demonstrate New Audio Signal Switcher for Radio-AssistTM
At IBC2008 NETIA will also demonstrate a new audio switcher designed to manage all switching from national to regional broadcasting. The audio switcher includes both an audio input for national program content and an internal sound card that allows regional commercials to be cut into the national program.

Feed-in IP Mode
NETIA's Feed-in IP mode is used for day-to-day scheduling of all automatic recordings of external programs. At IBC2008 NETIA will highlight its new IP version of the software solution, which allows Radio-AssistTM users to record continuous RTP inputs or scheduled programs without the need for a sound card. The Feed-in IP mode offers eight inputs that can be recorded simultaneously by each computer used.

Media LoggingTM

The company will also showcase its Media LoggingTM range in Amsterdam. This range of solutions meets the increased worldwide demand for radio and TV monitoring systems by carrying out the capture, indexing, transcoding, and distribution of audio and video content. Broadcasters, telecom and mobile phone operators, and Internet companies use Media Logging for continuous capture of video and audio files, 24 hours a day. Each file is examined individually, segmented, and completed with the necessary associated metadata — in an automatic or semiautomatic mode — through the use of sophisticated new speech-to-text and image-recognition techniques.

OpenNETTM

U-Share
NETIA will demonstrate how its U-Share network management system, as part of the company's OpenNetTM range, has been integrated into Radio-AssistTM 7.5 to simplify the distribution of audio content from one site to multiple destination sites. U-Share can also be used by television stations and telcos.

U-Share automates the exchange of content over the latest transmission platforms — IP transport or DVB video transport — for easy management of content distribution to the right place, at the right time.

Other content exchanges can be organized according to priority with flexible options for setting and modifying transmission schedules. U-Share optimizes the exchange of video and audio content through autonomous and automatic management of its transport network. For each transfer request in a given time slot, U-Share offers the best solution for the current network congestion, thus considerably reducing transfer costs.

NodalMaster
Also part of the OpenNetTM range, NETIA's full-featured NodalMaster software solution controls all of the routing and processing equipment in a nodal suite, from audio and video program schedules to audio- and video-tuning equipment, monitoring devices, etc. NodalMaster provides users with a single interface for controlling all this equipment while enabling them to make links or switch from any source to any target.

Stand 8.C62

Stéphanie Boisset Vice President, Communications & Operational Marketing Tel: +33 (0) 4675 90807