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  • Harmonic releases documentary on making of NASA’s UHD TV

    Harmonic releases documentary on making of NASA’s UHD TV

    MUMBAI: Harmonic, the video delivery infrastructure for emerging television and video services, has shot a documentary examining the making of NASA’s UHD TV channel.

    NASA TV UHD is the first noncommercial consumer UHD channel in North America. Showcasing the breathtaking beauty and grandeur of space using high-resolution images and video generated on the International space station and other current NASA missions, the channel also airs re-mastered footage from historical missions.

    The Harmonic documentary discusses the technical challenges NASA and Harmonic overcame within a matter of months to put NASA TV UHD up on one satellite link along with NASA’s existing SD and HD channels.

    Harmonic CMO Peter Alexander said, “Our signal is up on the bird, and so that’s exciting – to be blazing a new trail and leveraging the very latest state-of-the-art technology in television and video.”

    The video is also available on the Harmonic channel: www.harmonicinc.com/resources/videos/nasa-uhd

  • Harmonic releases documentary on making of NASA’s UHD TV

    Harmonic releases documentary on making of NASA’s UHD TV

    MUMBAI: Harmonic, the video delivery infrastructure for emerging television and video services, has shot a documentary examining the making of NASA’s UHD TV channel.

    NASA TV UHD is the first noncommercial consumer UHD channel in North America. Showcasing the breathtaking beauty and grandeur of space using high-resolution images and video generated on the International space station and other current NASA missions, the channel also airs re-mastered footage from historical missions.

    The Harmonic documentary discusses the technical challenges NASA and Harmonic overcame within a matter of months to put NASA TV UHD up on one satellite link along with NASA’s existing SD and HD channels.

    Harmonic CMO Peter Alexander said, “Our signal is up on the bird, and so that’s exciting – to be blazing a new trail and leveraging the very latest state-of-the-art technology in television and video.”

    The video is also available on the Harmonic channel: www.harmonicinc.com/resources/videos/nasa-uhd

  • Discovery Science’s Space Month: to air shows on 50 years of space exploration

    Discovery Science’s Space Month: to air shows on 50 years of space exploration

    MUMBAI: Discovery Science has dedicated a whole month to tell viewers everything they would like know about the universe, space exploration and the search for intelligent life on other planets.  Airing Monday to Friday at 10 PM on Discovery Science, the show starts on November 20 onwards. Space Month promises an in-depth analysis chronicling 50 years of unique achievements in space and exciting developments for the future.

     

    Space Month will kick start with the episode In Space: 50 years of Space Exploration. The episode will feature the Rosetta Mission, the 2014 ISS Crew and the upcoming Mercury and planned Mars missions. This episode will define how space travel has enhanced human knowledge of the universe and the ground-breaking future ahead where the secrets of its origins will be revealed says Discovery Science.

     

    To air on 24th & 25th November, Unravelling the Cosmos will take an immersive tour of the vast scale and extreme distances in the universe.

     

    To air on November 27, One Giant Leap will highlight the story of the United States journey to the moon, the landmark mission that inspired Americans during a time when violence and turmoil dominated headlines. Interviews with the surviving astronauts, families, and other key players, along with high-definition NASA films and never-before-seen home movie collections will be aired during the episode.

  • Amazon’s cloud service, the preferred choice by media industry, says Amit Sharma

    Amazon’s cloud service, the preferred choice by media industry, says Amit Sharma

    MUMBAI: Striving to be Earth’s most consumer-centric company, Amazon.com is a place where customers can virtually discover anything they want to buy online. To prove their consumer-centeredness, the online retail giant in 2006 launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, more commonly known as cloud computing.

    Even as a web service, Amazon is as well received and popular as its e-tailer form with clients ranging from MNCs to online agencies and news broadcasters.

    Talking about the base strategy of the company at Broadcast India conference, Amazon Internet Services’ solution architect Amit Sharma said “Focus on content development, leave the infrastructure management to us.”

    The company’s global clientele includes; Netflix, IMDB, Discovery Communications, Samsung, NASA while Hungama, NDTV, DigiCable, India Today Group, Sony among others joined them from India.

    According to Sharma, the company has around 8000 customers in India. “AWS Cloud is a preferred choice by the media industry,” he adds.

    With the rise of the online medium, everything from music to movies and TV shows have shifted online. The old hardware storage has been replaced almost completely by internet, tapes have been replaced by servers and the companies have gone digital. With these paradigm changes happening in the online world, AWS provides a platform for better web services to the company, Sharma opines.

    The company mainly handles issues getting all the content online to provide easy access.

    “Netflix runs almost 100 per cent of its online videos on AWS. In order to transfer the entire library of Netflix to AWS, we used around 1200 servers,” Sharma reveals.

    Similarly AWS provides solutions to problems including; reducing IT cost for new applications, for user profiling, websites and website hosting, business applications, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data archive, high performance computing, mobile services, digital marketing, game development and digital media.

    Book My Show, uses AWS to analyse users that visit the site while Hungama was looking to reduced 33 per cent monthly costs using AWS.

    The company provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that has helped a number of enterprises, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world. AWS offers over 30 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

    Available to customers from data center locations in the US, Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore and Australia, the company is planning to expand further and open a data centre in India.

    Recently, software giant Microsoft had said it will set up three data centres in India, offering commercial cloud services, to tap what it estimates is a $2 trillion opportunity. These data centres are expected to be set up by the end of 2015.

     

  • Beyonce slammed for sampling NASA shuttle audio clip

    Beyonce slammed for sampling NASA shuttle audio clip

    Dentsu wins at DMA Asia awards, Snapdeal appoints Amitava Ghosh, Askme launches TVC, SonySinger and actor Beyonce has been criticised for using an audio clip related to the space shuttle Challenger disaster in the love song “XO” from her fifth studio album “Beyonce,” which released earlier this month.

     

    The song “XO,” which was written and produced by Ryan Tedder and Terius Nash, also known as “The Dream”, includes an audio segment involving NASA’s then public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt on Jan 28, 1986.

     

    “Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction,” Nesbitt said at the time, when the Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds into its flight, over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.

     

    Former NASA employees and NASA families have slammed Beyonce for sampling audio from the space shuttle Challenger explosion on her new song “XO”.

     

    Beyonce responded in a statement to ABC:

     

    My heart goes out to the families of those lost in the Challenger disaster. The song ‘XO’ was recorded with the sincerest intention to help heal those who have lost loved ones and to remind us that unexpected things happen, so love and appreciate every minute that you have with those who mean the most to you. The songwriters included the audio in tribute to the unselfish work of the Challenger crew with hope that they will never be forgotten.financial  – Indiantelevision.com AD Linx dated 10 August

  • Discovery Channel sifts the ultimate man-made marvel in Worlds top 5

    Discovery Channel sifts the ultimate man-made marvel in Worlds top 5

    Discovery Channel, India’s favourite factual entertainment network, goes on a global hunt for the ultimate engineering geniuses. Bringing the greatest man-made machines, from super plane and trains to mega factories built to an unimaginable scale. WORLD’S TOP 5 will pit these super machines against each other, measuring them in five major categories, to reveal the very best of the best.

     

    Starting 21st October, 2013, the ten-part series, WORLD’S TOP 5, premieres every Monday to Friday at 8PM, only on Discovery Channel.

     

    With the help of scientific experts from across the world, audiences are treated to spectacular visuals and unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to these life-changing technological titans. Find out how a train without wheels reaches world-beating speeds, or what powers the world’s fastest cars. A panel of expert judges tests, analyses and rates each machine in five categories; all the while, revealing the secrets of their innovative success.

     

    WORLD’S TOP 5 will shine the spotlight on the top 5 super cars – pitting the fastest against the most powerful, and the Al Anabi Dragster with an explosive accelerator against the ultimate racing gems. While each is a marvel of engineering, which one will lead in the five key automotive categories? Which will be crowned the world’s Ultimate Super Car? In mega factories, NASA, the hub of USA’s Space Program,will go head-to-head with the world’s largest oil refinery, India’s Reliance Factory, among other engineering giants. The expert panel will enter the premises; rate each mega factory on five industrial categories, and countdown to the ultimate winner.

     

    Find out who takes the lead on WORLD’S TOP 5 starting Monday, 21st October, 2013, at 8PM only on Discovery Channel.

     

    Highlights from the series: Super Planes: World’s Top 5 shines the spotlight on the world’s greatest mechanical marvels and pits them against each other to reveal the very best of the best. Some of the Super Planes featured in the episode : Ukraine’s monster mover – the Antonov 225; French giant double-decker – the Airbus A380; America’s high altitude spy plane – the Global Hawk; The Eurofighter Typhoon– the world’s most manoeuvrable jet fighter – and the backbone of the US military – the Lockheed C5 Galaxy.

     

    Super Trains: French super high-speed double decker – the TGV Duplex; Japan’s tilting record-breaker – the aerodynamic N700 Bullet; North America’s mega-load bearer – the QNSL; China’s floating vision of the future – the Maglev – and the death-defying mountain climber that spans two countries – the Qingzang train.

     

    Earthmovers: The TakrafBaggar – a goliath of an excavator; Enormous earthworm – the Crossrail Tunnel Borer; The supercomputer mega-digger – the Komatsu WA 1200; The CAT 8750 – a walking mega-mover – and its smaller, but just as impressive, cousin the CAT 797F – the world’s biggest dumper truck. Each is a monster machine in its own right.

     

    Mega Ships: The Mighty Servant 1 – a heavy-lifting transporter like no other; The Allure of the Seas – the world’s biggest Cruise Liner; TI Europe – a vast double-hulled oil tanker; The Ebba Maersk – the world’s biggest container ship and the world’s deadliest warship – the USS GHW Bush. Each is a titan of the seas. But how will they fare in head-to-head battles in five key nautical categories?

     

    Super Cars: Thrust SSC – the world’s fastest car; The most powerful road car every built – the Bugatti Veyron; Explosive accelerator – the Al Anabi Dragster; The ultimate in racing cars – the F1 McLaren Mercedes and the Tesla Roadster – the electric car that’s re-writing the rulebook. Each is a giant of engineering. But how will they fare in head-to-head battles in five key automotive categories?

  • NASA to host Google+ Hangout

    NASA to host Google+ Hangout

    MUMBAI: NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from several NASA centers at 2 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) on 23 July as the agency prepares to fly two unmanned aircraft over Atlantic Ocean hurricanes this summer.

    NASA‘s Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel or HS3‘s mission is a five-year project that first took to the field in 2012 from NASA‘s Wallops flight facility at Wallops Island. HS3 is investigating the roles of the large-scale environment and storm-scale internal processes in hurricane formation and intensity change in the Atlantic basin. HS3 scientists will use two NASA Global Hawk aircraft during the campaign, one with instruments measuring the environment around a tropical cyclone and the other with instruments looking into the storms.

    Participants in the Hangout will hear about the 2012 mission and preparations underway at Wallops for the upcoming flights. The HS3 lead scientist will explain how NASA will peer into hurricanes and a Global Hawk pilot will discuss remote flying over tropical cyclones.

    Panelists for the Google+ Hangout are NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center HS3 principal investigator Scott Braun, NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research Center Global Hawk pilot Tom Miller, NASA‘s Ames Research Center HS3 project manager Marilyn Vasques and rosenstiel school of marine and atmospheric science senior research associate Brian McNoldy .

    Google+ Hangouts allow as many as 10 people or group chat, while thousands more can watch the conversation live on Google+ or YouTube. The Hangout will also be carried live on NASA Television and the agency‘s website.

    NASA‘s social media followers can submit questions on Google+ or Twitter in advance and during the event using #askNASAHS3. Before the Hangout begins, NASA will open a thread on its Facebook page where questions may be posted.

  • Marvel arranges to show The Avengers at Space station

    MUMBAI: Marvel Studios has arranged to transfer their record-breaking blockbuster film The Avengers with NASA.

    Taking things forward, NASA‘s Mission Control in Houston will uplink the film to the International Space Station (ISS), currently orbiting 220 miles above Earth. The film will then be screened for the space station crew‘s exclusive enjoyment.

    Said Marvel Studios‘ co-president and executive producer of the film Louis D‘Esposito, “The studio is privileged to share The Avengers with those up in space exploring the universe. A special thanks goes to NASA for utilizing their incredible technology to make this special screening miles above us in space happen. It is a screening that would make Tony Stark envious.”

    This screening continues Marvel‘s collaboration with NASA, which began during principal photography of the film when it was shot at the Space Power Facility at NASA‘s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

    The current space station mission is Expedition 31 and has a six-member crew consisting of two NASA astronauts, 1 European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and 3 Russian (RU) cosmonauts.

  • Nasa chooses Optibase IPTV system

    Nasa chooses Optibase IPTV system

    MUMBAI: Optibase, which works in the field of advanced digital video solutions, has announced that it is providing its advanced IPTV solution to US space oprganisation Nasa.

    Optibase MGW 1100 carrier-grade IPTV streaming platforms have been successfully deployed at the Nasa Dryden Flight Research Center, Nasa’s premier flight research and test organisation for the validation of high-risk, pioneering aerospace technology, space exploration concepts, and the conduct of science mission observations.

    The MGW 1100 provides H.264 video and audio, in combination with an Optibase PC soft player application and display manager for streaming of content over the internal IP NASA base network. The content includes TV channels such as news and weather channels as well as NASA-generated channels such as live flight test footage and other events.

    The system is controlled by Optibase’s Cluster Manager, which enables intuitive and simple management of multiple Media Gateway platforms and hundreds of channels from one centralized application. For enhanced control and viewing options, the solution includes the Optibase Display Manager, which enables the display of multiple video streams on a single PC screen. In addition to PC streaming, the content will be streamed to Set-top-boxes for display on TV monitors and plasma screens across the base.

    Optibase president Adam Schadle says, “We are delighted with the success of our IPTV system at NASA. This system is a prime example of carrier-grade IPTV systems for the military and government markets. Optibase prides itself on providing a complete end-to-end IPTV solution, which is tailored to the customer’s specific requirements. As a veteran supplier of video technology solutions to military and government, Optibase is well equipped to provide reliable streaming solutions for mission-critical and high-grade video applications.”

  • Mark Burnett plays ‘Devil’s Advocate’ for Sci Fi Channel

    Mark Burnett plays ‘Devil’s Advocate’ for Sci Fi Channel

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster Sci Fi Channel has unveiled a slate of original series and miniseries. Reality TV guru Mark Burnett The Apprentice and Dreamworks Television will make Devil’s Advocate.

    This is a one-hour conspiracy thriller about a theology professor who is thrust into the world of secret societies, religious espionage and genetic research.

    Hired by a global corporation, but motivated by his own personal search for the truth, the professor forms an eclectic team of ‘devil’s advocates’ who are charged with deciding whether bizarre cases can be explained naturally, or whether there are larger, more supernatural forces at work.

    The channel will also unveil a miniseries Outpost. It centers on a group of private explorers in the near future, that takes over an abandoned Nasa research base after the government has abandoned space exploration as too expensive. The intrepid explorers travel to a distant planet in our solar system to establish a potentially lucrative off-world colony. But, the real adventure begins when they discover an ancient artifact buried deep beneath the planet’s surface.