Digital Nirvana will showcase its full suite of media management products and services at the upcoming NAB Show New York. Booth highlights will include closed captioning solutions, automated sports clipping service, and the newest version of the MonitorIQ media management platform. NAB Show New York takes place October 18-19 at the Javits Convention Center, and Digital Nirvana will exhibit in booth N662.
“We enjoy NAB New York because it gives us a chance to connect with many regional current and potential customers that may not have attended recent international shows, such as IBC,” said Hiren Hindocha, president and CEO, Digital Nirvana. “We create smart media management solutions that streamline workflows, and our newest solutions and services were developed in response to consumer demand in the ever-changing broadcast and content creation landscape.”
One booth highlight will be the company’s all-in-one automated sports clipping service. Introduced earlier this year, the service enables broadcasters to easily capture and share every fast-paced moment in a game. Offering a state-of-the-art workflow and customization options, the service automatically analyzes sports broadcasts in real-time and generates ready-to-publish clips of those highlights. Digital Nirvana’s sports clipping service is coupled with automated caption synchronization, enabling sports broadcasters to publish sports media content online and via social media without any considerable time delay while complying with all FCC regulations. Watch this video to learn more about the sports clipping service.
Another NAB Show New York highlight will be the company’s cloud-based closed captioning, subtitling, and video logging services. Offering postproduction, pop-on, and roll-up captioning services, the company offers high-quality caption generation for all pre-recorded and online video content through an automated process over the cloud. Digital Nirvana’s cloud-based caption synchronization technologies use audio fingerprinting to automate near-live synchronization of live broadcast captions. Automated speech-to-text conversion, coupled with state-of-the-art workflow and experienced captioners, reduces the time and cost to publish, provides better search engine discoverability – while complying with FCC guidelines.
On the product side, Digital Nirvana will showcase its MonitorIQ media management platform, which delivers a full range of multi-channel signal monitoring, repurposing, logging, compliance and archiving functions. The latest version of MonitorIQ, V5.0, features cloud-based recording, OTT stream monitoring functions, and HTML5 and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) support, and incorporates the ability to record from Matrox’s Monarch HDX streaming appliance. Digital Nirvana will also showcase its standalone media management products, including the CAR/TS (Capture, Analyze, Replay – Transport Stream) transport stream recorder, which records and monitors the transport stream, provides alerts of non-compliance, offers time-shifted playout, and allows users to cut segments and export section of the transport stream for more detailed analysis. Other standalone product highlights include AnyStreamIQ for cloud-based OTT monitoring and MediaPro for content repurposing.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More