Asia-Pacific News

After a brand launch at the annual NAB show in Las Vegas, European media technology solutions provider MediaPower will push on to Asia to showcase its media solutions. MediaPower will exhibit at the leading annual Korean International Broadcast, Audio, and Lighting Show, KOBA 2013 (Booth D504) through a newly forged partnership with the Korean HANTERNETWORK. [...]

HTV (Ho Chi Minh City Television) joined the ETERE community in 2009, upgrading its old system with ETERE, consisting of a new setup composed by two different video servers: one disk archive and a LTO library system. HTV found exactly the right solution for the management of their broadcasting activities, selecting tapeless solutions provided by [...]

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has acquired a motion picture film scanner for the digitisation of its extensive holdings of 16mm film in the national audiovisual collection.The new equipment will add to the NFSA’s existing capability for scanning small-gauge film, and complement its commitment to traditional photomechanical film preservation.16 mm film [...]

Australian broadcast duplication and multimedia specialist, FATS Digital has bolstered its video format conversion services with the upgrade of its Snell Alchemist PH.C HD standards converter to Version 7.As part of the Version 7 software upgrade, FATS has opted to add processing of Dolby surround sound audio, which includes both encoding and decoding of Dolby [...]

Signiant, the market leader in intelligent file movement software for media and entertainment, announced that Venture 3D, a stereoscopic 3D conversion production company based in Los Angeles, is using its Media Shuttle hybrid SaaS file transfer solution to facilitate collaboration with partners in Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul and Korea on an upcoming feature film. Built [...]

Media Nusantara Citra (MNC) is the largest Indonesian media company, founded in 1997 and currently owned 70% by PT Global Mediacom TBK Group. MNC’s significant content library is the largest in Indonesia, comprising entertainment and news content collected – with an increasing rate of more than 10,000 hours per year- from in-house produced content (movies, [...]

Front Porch Digital, a global leader in content storage management (CSM) solutions, has announced that FATS Digital, a mastering, storage, broadcast video duplication, and technical services company, has expanded its digital archiving facilities with Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive CSM and the complementary DIVAdirector 5 media asset management (MAM) system. Both platforms are widely recognised and [...]

As part of their ongoing strategy of having the best possible technical capabilities, SBS TV recently significantly expanded and upgraded their tape library with the help of Magna Systems and Engineering. In order to give more throughput which would in turn more efficiently move content in and out of the SBS TV archive, the broadcaster [...]

Future Reality has helped the Adventist Media Network (AMN) step up to enterprise class, scalable storage with the installation of EMC Isilon NL400 hardware. As the media arm for the Seventh Day Adventist Organisation in the APAC region, AMN produces two 30 minute shows for local pay and free-to-air channels as well as numerous corporate [...]

Masstech has expanded its reach into Asia with the signing of its first deal in Vietnam with the Vietnam Television Film Center (VFC) to digitally archive all its film productions. The installation of Masstech’s Emerald LE solution with integration to Avid’s Interplay ISIS is currently underway at VFC’s Hanoi facility. Vietnam Television Film Center, a [...]