Nigel Spratling, vice-president of production switchers and video servers at Ross Video, reflects on empowering customers to do things their own way
here’s no doubt that the broadcast industry has become more complicated over the past ten years. It’s much more fragmented.
got customers who want to do SDI, those preferring a move to 12G SDI, and some who want to do IP – not forgetting those looking to use NDI, who desire compressed IP. But our mission remains the same: to serve them all by providing technology that they can configure to meet their own business goals. When the industry transitioned into the digital world, Ross Video started to use more easily configurable field- programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), to gift the user with more flexibility to reprogram or add different features and functionality. In a market full of specific products geared towards different tasks, our production switcher, Carbonite, HELPING CUSTOMERS TRANSITION
Some of our customers (about a third of the world) are still working in standard definition, while others are in HD and 4K UHD. We’ve also
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