Technology has always been about choice: Fire allowed us to choose to live in colder climates. Electric lighting offered us the choice to read at night. Drugs give us the freedom to choose stressful, self-destructive lifestyles. And digital technology gives us the ability to do more than one thing at the same time — or…
The test and monitoring sector is as reliant on standards as most other parts of the media industry, but support for an industry standard does not necessarily guarantee that a monitoring system gets the best job done, or even that the actual performance of the system implements the standard effectively. Simen K. Frostad, Chairman of…
"Just like it's rare to come across someone very special although we meet many hundreds of people in our everyday life, Fiorenza is special. Whatever we do, we need to be a very good human being first. Otherwise, even when we do a perfect job, something should be missing. In other words, let's say when…
"For the modern day variation on the broadcast theme… I mean, take your pick (or invent your own), just insert ‘industry’ after each: broadcast media; media and entertainment; media content; content media; media and broadcast technology; electronic media; electric content media; entertaining contextual electricity; the industry formerly known as the broadcast industry… and on we…
Playing through recorded monitoring data to understand fundamental causes of error by Simen Frostad, Chairman of Bridge Technologies When there’s an urgent need to fix a problem, all efforts are directed at an immediate solution. You get the casualty to hospital first, and then start investigating how the accident happened afterwards. The diagnostic information…
BERGEN, Norway ― 12 October 2015 Vimond Media Solutions has announced that Christina Moe Hansen has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Hansen joins the company from Ernst & Young AS and will be based at Vimond’s Bergen headquarters. “The appointment of a dynamic CFO at this point in the company’s development is…
OSLO, Norway — 5 October 2015 Slovenian national broadcaster RTV Slovenia has installed a monitoring system from Bridge Technologies for its DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, and IP delivery chain. The system provided to RTV Slovenia includes a combination of VB120, VB252 and VB272 probes with ETR290 monitoring capability for analysis functionality and graphic presentation of complex…
Vienna, Austria— 28 September 2015 — Pan-European digital services leader Atos has chosen NOA technology for a 10-year archiving project for Austrian national broadcaster ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk). ORF’s archiving program is the third large-scale European archiving project in recent months to be powered by NOA solutions, following the choice of Slovenia and Slovakia’s national broadcasters.…
OSLO, Norway — 21 September 2015 Bridge Technologies won a Best of Show award from Broadcast Beat magazine at IBC 2015 for its Gold TS Protection monitoring technology. The radical monitoring technology has picked up multiple awards since its launch earlier in 2015, including Best of Show awards at both NAB and IBC. Developed…
OSLO, Norway — 21 September 2015 Bridge Technologies scooped Newbay Media’s Best of Show award at IBC 2015 for its Gold TS Protection monitoring technology. Developed during several years of R&D, Gold TS Protection is a radical innovation addressing serious operational issues in digital media monitoring; the complexity of the industry standard (ETR290); the…