IBC Innovation Award
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ITN NeMeSys System Powered by Telestream FlipFactory
Transcoding Engine Wins Content Delivery Award
Amsterdam, 9 September 2007 – IBC received more than 70 entries from around the world for this year’s IBC Innovation Awards. These awards are recognized as something special, because they reward creativity through technology. This year’s judges, a panel of international editors chaired by Michael Lumley, had a difficult and challenging set of choices to make to select a shortlist and one winner for each of the three categories: Content Creation, Management & Delivery.
ITN’s NeMeSys (new media system) developed in house using Telestream’s FlipFactory transcoding engine won the Content Delivery Award.
“What makes the IBC Innovation Awards unique is that they honor both the technology and the application, the supplier and the customer,” said Michael Lumley, chair of the panel of judges. “We are celebrating the fact that the best broadcasters and content producers seize on the latest developments and use them to fuel their creativity.”
With an ever-increasing customer base, ITN needed an easily expandable and user-friendly delivery platform, allowing its producers to spend less time worrying about formats and encoding, and more on creating compelling content.
The solution was NeMeSys – a new media system – developed in house using the Telestream FlipFactory transcoding engine to deliver what each customer needs in terms of media format, metadata and delivery method.
“I am very proud to accept this award on behalf of ITN,” said Ian Auger, head of IT and communications. “It is great to get some recognition for the often forgotten technology behind the media products we deliver. It has been quite a challenge to get to where we are with NeMeSys today and the journey has not finished as the system continues to evolve and take on new roles.”