LONDON—Timeline Television has announced Stream Anywhere, a new broadcast app to enable producers to continue shooting and broadcasting remotely in a safe manner.

The app, which complements Timeline’s existing remote production product portfolio, is an app pre-loaded onto an iPhone sent to talent together with a microphone, film lights, talkback and an iPad for return video, Timeline said.

In less than 20 minutes, the kit can be assembled. If further support is needed, they can call upon Timeline’s engineers to help them virtually, it said.

The Stream Anywhere app allows broadcasters, production companies, sports brands, marketing agencies and news publishers to continue delivering broadcast-quality video and audio to audiences using a cellular or Wi-Fi network, the company said.

Timeline engineers remotely can color match, rack, zoom in and out and control audio. Production teams can produce remotely from Timeline’s Ealing Broadcast Centre, their own facility or their homes, Timeline said.

Those producers working from home use remote producer stations with program and multiviewer streams. They also optionally can access hardware and software talkback panels, it said.

More information is available on the company’s website.

MONTREAL—Grass Valley’s fingerprints are on the new OB truck from Timeline Television, UHD3, which is designed to be an all-IP, 4K UHD HDR capable unit. Featuring Grass Valley’s Orbit Dynamic System Orchestration and Kahuna 9600 IP production switcher, the U.K.-based company now has a future-proof vehicle for mobile productions, per GV.

The UHD3 is able to link up with Timeline’s existing IP 4K UHD HDR truck, UHD2, for expanded production capability, managed by the GV Orbit platform. UHD3 features the same GV IP infrastructure and Arista 100G switch as the UHD2, just on a smaller scale (UHD2 is a triple-expanding truck, UHD3 a double-expanding one).

Grass Valley also supplies UHD3 with its IQUCP25 application platforms with SDI to IP essence processing software, which enables 25GBE ST 2110 IP connectivity for HD and 4K SDI equipment. The truck’s IQAMD40MADI to IP interfacing modules connect audio to the network, while MV-821-IP multiviewers handle main production monitoring. Additional IQCUP25-MV units support peripheral multiviewer applications.

UHD3 also uses GV’s Audio Live system, which allows production staff to route any source audio to any destination, per GV. In addition, dual GV Orbit controllers handle all configuration and monitoring of the truck’s IP backbone.

The BBC had commissioned Timeline’s UHD3 for presentation coverage of UEFA Euro 2020, but that event has been postponed to 2021. The truck will initially support Barclay’s FA Women’s Super League soccer and other live entertainment programming.

Timeline says that the addition of the UHD3 will enable it to support a wider range of customer needs, including remote production.

For more information, visit www.grassvalley.com.  

LONDON—Get ready to see double, as the U.K.’s Timeline Television is planning on building a second 4K UHD RF uplink truck. As 4K demands continue to grow, Timeline will use the second truck meet client requirements. It is expected to be ready in the second quarter of 2018.

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The new truck, designated RF2, will be designed and built by Timeline. The truck will provide a dual chain 1.8m Advent Newswift antenna, which can deliver multiple UHD and HD uplinks. It is also expected to have a 1m Cobham Explorer 8100 KA antenna for remote data services and video over IP.

Additional equipment expected to be installed in the truck includes a 196 bidirectional port Vega router, a large monitor stack, Dolby sound monitoring, ASI/spectrum analysis and a 9m Telescopic Mast with 35Kg of headload.

NEWBURY, ENGLAND—Timeline Television’s new UHD2 IP 4K HDR OB truck will be pulling up to Snell Advanced Media’s booth at IBC 2017. The OB truck features a number of SAM’s IP-based products and its 4K/UHD replay system.

Installed in the UHD2 are two Kahuna IP production switchers, IP multiviewers, with SAM’s IP infrastructure technology serving as the backbone. SAM has also supplied the truck with its LiveTouch 4K/UHD replay and highlights system to be used for demonstrations at the show.

The Timeline truck is designed to support 32 Sony 4K cameras. The Kahunas enable SDR and HDR to be run simultaneously along with down converted HD outputs. With this set-up, SAM claims that production teams can work in VSF TR-03 to work video and audio as separate essence flows within an IP workflow.

The SAM booth is located at stand 9.A01 during IBC 2017, which takes place from Sept. 15-19 in Amsterdam.