NAB 2016 :New technology companies join the rapidly-growing TICO Alliance at NAB 2016
The addition of the new members demonstrates the growing acceptance worldwide of TICO compression as suitable technology for lightly compressed IP transmission in Live Production.
Las Vegas Convention Center, 18th April 2016 : Blackmagic Design, B&M Modern Media, Bluefish444, Cobalt Digital, Ikegami, Leader, Net Insight, Panasonic, Pesa, Telestream and Village Island have joined the
alliance in the last few weeks. The growth of supporters and promoters of TICO continues, as a further eleven international companies, opt for the TICO Alliance.
Current members have collaborated to create a full set of open specifications that will be disclosed in the SMPTE RDD35, specifying TICO compression, its mapping on SDI, SMPTE2022-6 and RTP payload. The specification suits the industry roadmap converging on SMPTE 2022-6, VSF TR03 and TR-04 for the transition to IP.
New members say:
Blackmagic Design: “Broadcasters have been asking us for video over IP solutions for quite some time” said Grant Petty, CEO Blackmagic Design. “The TICO codec delivers incredible image quality with extremely low latency and we believe it is the ideal codec for our IP video solutions. We will be able to offer our customers advanced HD and Ultra HD video over IP products that will integrate with other TICO compatible studios and broadcasters around the world.”
Bluefish444: "With TICO lightweight compression our customers will be able to provide products capable of delivering 4K 60fps video over a single 3G SDI cable, infrastructure which is already well established globally," states Tom Lithgow, Bluefish444 Product Manager.
Cobalt Digital: “The TICO Alliance is less than a year old but has already attracted some major industry players, which is a testament to the technology’s viability. Participating in the TICO Alliance will help Cobalt maintain its strong position in the signal-processing and transport markets as a go-to provider of essential, problem-solving products that connect system components such as cameras, production switchers, and multiviewers,” said Jesse Foster, director of products and business development at Cobalt Digital. “We’ve built partnerships and trust with our customers by providing top-notch technology and support, and we expect they will be pleased to find TICO-enabled products across our portfolio.”
Ikegami: “We believe interoperability and scalability will ultimately benefit customers, especially in our specialty, 4K and 8K. As IP based solutions will play a key role, we see TICO as a real answer” says Naoki KASHIMURA, Director of the Board, Global Business Promotion, Ikegami.
Leader: "As well as being a trusted partner to broadcasters, LEADER is future-proofing its test and measurement products," comments LEADER'S European Regional Development Manager, Kevin Salvidge. "We are allowing broadcasters to migrate from the traditional SDI world to the brave new IP world at their own pace, with a test and measurement products that operate in either or both infrastructures."
Panasonic: “We’re excited to be a part of the TICO Alliance. Panasonic is providing several 4K delivery options to the market. In addition to 12G-SDI, TICO over 3G-SDI is one of the best options for the future of 4K on traditional SDI workflows. We’re also happy to show another possibility of TICO: transmission of 4K video over IP networks” comments Kunihiko Miyagi, Director of Panasonic’s Professional Video Business Unit.
Pesa: “TICO is a great solution for PESA to offer in support of our extensive customer base, allowing them to preserve their existing investment in 3Gbps infrastructure, yet move forward with implementation of UHDTV at their own controlled pace dictated by their customer and business demands without major capital equipment re-investment” says Pesa, President and CTO, Chris Thomas.
Village Island: “The Broadcast industry has conflicting needs: increasing the video quality while optimizing the infrastructure with ever more compact systems, lower delays and simpler cabling. In that trend it was natural for us to adopt TICO within our projects either in hardware or software solutions. We are excited to join the TICO Alliance and tackle these new technical challenges, says Michael Van Dorpe, Village Island President.
TICO compression
TICO enables 4K live production by transmitting lightly compressed ultra-high definition 4K 60P video over a single 3G-SDI link, eliminating the common issues which professional broadcasters face either using multiple 3G-SDI ports or updating their infrastructure to 12G-SDI to manage 4K video throughput. Moreover, on the road transitioning to fully IP workflows, it also optimizes the transmission of UHDTV using a single 10GbE interface to carry up to 3 UHDTV 4K streams.
TICO is the optimal answer to the challenging requirements of Broadcasters for Live production environments: the ground breaking technology guarantees a visually lossless quality with only a few pixel lines of latency, is robust to multiple coding generation, has an extremely small footprint in FPGA so that firmware can easily be upgraded to support 4K in existing or new IP or SDI infrastructures.
TICO related technology demonstrations at NAB 2016
NAB 2016 is the opportunity for visitors to see several demos at various booths of how TICO compression is transforming and facilitating the transport of video over SDI and IP networks for Live production. TICO adopters and promoters will be demonstrating real-life solutions and deployments of TICO, across multiple applications including UHD/4K over single 3G-SDI, SMPTE 2022-6 or VSF TR03. TICO enabled products are demonstrated at several booths, including Imagine Communications, Grass Valley, Panasonic, Deltacast, Bluefish444 and others.
NAB show will be the first chance to publicly see also joint demonstrations between equipment manufacturers. The interoperability is enabled by the use of the SMPTE RDD35. Panasonic, a new member of the Alliance, is showing a multi-vendor interop demo over 10GbE IP network - booth C3607. The demo is showing 4K/60p Video over IP with TICO and RDD35 implementation amongst three different equipment manufacturers.
About TICO Alliance
The alliance is an open coalition of companies united to set the bar for next generation UHDTV infrastructure by establishing TICO compression in the new IP-based Live ecosystem. Leveraging the TICO compression with open standards and specifications, the group enables the industry to seamlessly update the existing SDI-based workflows to IP and UHDTV 4K without the cost of a complete renewal. Member companies now number 34. The group is open to all individuals and companies that are interested to grow the IP ecosystems, by supporting the TICO technology.
For more info about the alliance, visit www.tico-alliance.org
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