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For many companies in the media technology sector, the first half of September is fully booked every year, as it is time to set up the IBC stand at the RAI exhibition center in Amsterdam. This year everything was different. Exhibitors and visitors couldn't travel and still break new ground. …

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Excerpt from the ZDF, the second German public television on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall: "Two biographies of the East after the fall of the Wall".

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The MediaPreserve ordered 16 quality-controlled QUADRIGA • Video ingest lines. This follow-up investment is step two after 6 months working successfully with 8 ingest lines of QUADRIGA • Video under tough operating conditions. The system setup is used to transfer huge collections …

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The ARD-Sternpunkt in Frankfurt is the central control centre of the German public broadcasting authorities. ARD-Sternpunkt is responsible for the hosting and operation of central technical infrastructures in the field of television, radio, program distribution as well as network & IT …

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In the past, a film digitization project usually focused on a single, precise intention to exploit the digitized material, but in recent years the systematic digitization of analog film materials with the aim of long-term digital preservation has gained considerable momentum. This is …

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To convert programme deliveries from external partners into an unified in-house MXF format, ZDF had used a video ingest server to decode those files to an uncompressed audio/video format and afterwards re-encode them into said internal MXF format. This process ensured the files had the …