Thousands of new products appeared at IBC this year, with a wide spectrum of applications. Some offered simple solutions to long-standing problems, others raised the bar of quality higher, others were revolutionary. We are happy to present our Best Of IBC, the full list of winning companies, along with their winning products.
The cloud, the increasing predominance of IT-based systems and 4K were the key trends at IBC2013. The show was packed with more than 1400 exhibitors, most of whom had new products on display.
The TVBEurope and IBC Daily teams have selected the best of these products, across the categories of Acquisition, Recording and Acquisition Workflow, Camera Support, Lighting, Audio, Production and Infrastructure, and finally Links, Transmission and Delivery. A total of 81 products made the list this year, a testament to the increasingly high quality of innovation at IBC.
Acquisition
Abakus – 35mm Stadium Lens
Arri – UWZ 9.5-18 Ultra Wide Zoom
Arri – Amira
Blackmagic Design – Blackmagic Production Camera 4K
Canon – EOS-1D C
Canon – EOS C500/C300/C100 high ISO upgrade
Carl Zeiss – CZ.2 15-30/T2.9 lens
Cooke Optics/Thales Angénieux – Anamorphic lenses
Fujinon – XA55x9.5BESM HD
Ikegami – HDK-97Arri
Ikegami – HDL-4500
Indiecam – indieUIP
LMC – Antelope Pico
Multidyne – The Bulldog
Sony – PXW-Z100
Thales Angénieux – Optimo 25-250mm zoom
Tokina – Hydrophilic Coating Filter
Vision Research – Phantom Flex4K
Recording and Acquisition Workflow
AJA – KiPro Quad
AJA/EVS – TruZoom
Atomos – Blade + Spyder
For-A – 4K Extraction System
I-Movix – d-flicker and ColorMatch
Panasonic – Cloud Workflow
SanDisk – CFast 2.0
Sony – Ci
Camera Support
Bradley Engineering – Robotic Internet Protocol
Easyrig – Shoulder Mount
Freefly Systems – Movi 10
Mark Roberts Motion Control – Bolt
Syrup – Genie
VariZoom – Stealthy
Lighting
Brother, Brother & Son – Force V
Fill-Lite – Slimline LED soft lights
Ianiro – 7000 Varibeam
Photon Beard – Square One
Rotolight – Spectrascope
Zylight – F8
Audio
Avid – S6 Control Surface
Delec Audio + Videotechnik – Oratis Compact
DTS – Headphone X
Sennheiser – Esfera
TC Electronic – UpCon
TSL – The Egg
Production and Infrastructure
AJA – Io 4K
Aspera – Drive
Axon – Neuron
Blackmagic Design – Atem 1 M/E Production Studio 4K
Blackmagic Design – Ultra HD Mini Converters
Canare Electric – Active BNC
Cinegy – DANIEL (Digital ANImation Encoder Library) codec
Cooke Optics/Pixel Farm/Codex – /i2 Technology
Ensemble Designs – BrightEye NXT 410 Clean HDMI Router
Fischer – FiberOptic Series connector
Grass Valley – Edius 7
Grass Valley – GV Director
Harris Broadcast – Platinum IP3 router
Joseph Fiber Solutions – 4K Replay Caddie
Leader Instruments – LV5490
Matrox Video – Mojito 4K
Matrox Video – Monarch HD
NewTek – TriCaster 860, TriCaster 460, and TriCaster 410
Nexidia – Dialogue Search
Nexidia – QC
The Pixel Farm – PFTrack Wide Baseline Feature Matching
Quantel – QTube InterSite
Scalable Video Systems – IT-based live production system
SintecMedia – Cloud OnAir
Sony – AWS-750 Anycast Touch
Toshiba – On-Air Max Flash
VidiGo – Toolbox Skype integration
Links, Transmission and Delivery
Beamr – Beamr Video
Cobham – Solo7 HD Nano TX
Dejero – Live+ VSET
Enensys – OneBeam
Ericsson – AVP 4000 encoder
Inmarsat – BGAN High Data Rate (HDR)
LGZ Broadcasting Technology – USB Recorder
LiveWire Digital – NetCaster
Nucomm/Dejero – Connect Live
Viaccess-Orca – DEEP (Data Enrichment and Engagement Platform)
