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March 25, 2010 |
Latest news on 3D
Television
Last night was an experimental trial of
shooting an NHL hockey game in 3D (Rangers vs Islanders) and comparing it with an HD
feed. Read New York Times article which gives some of the
impressions from different viewing areas.
New York Times Article
We also included a Special Report (21MB) from TVB Europe March issue "3DTV:
Industry game-changer, How to shoot Stereo 3D, Making the 3D
grade, Sports Broadcasting, 3D Camera and key Techniques
and more" so you can read what the Europeans are up
to in their thinking on 3D for Television.
TVB Europe.
Good reading before heading for NAB.
Going to NAB, you may want to lets us know if your want
to see solutions in producing in 3D (post related and
Transport). But besides the heads up, if you happen to
be in the MGM Grand during your stay, SONY and CBS have
installed a test center for 3D Television viewership.
Though you'll see 3D on the floor at NAB, sometimes it's
nice to hear want the general public has to so say.
Technically we are supposed to follow the bucks, best we
listen. Full article on the test site.
Taken from TV Technology
 Not
really related to 3D TV but leading the way for the
adoption at home and in theatres, an article "Modern
VideoFilm Relies on Quantel for Avatar 3D Post",
using 3 of Pablo Systems from Quantel. Images and
details of the 3D post job related to James Cameron's
Avatar, reported by
Quantel France Blog
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March 18, 2010 |
Broadcast
Industry’s Largest Market
Study Reveals Most Important Technology Trends
Confirming Mr. Louis Sebastiani's
Industry Trends and Emerging Technology presentation given
during last's weeks "Content to its Distribution 2010
Tour'', here's a survey report
ranking technology trends in terms of importance to their
business.
Published by Devoncroft Partners, the annual Big
Broadcast Survey (BBS) is the largest and most
comprehensive studies of broadcast industry trends and
technology vendor brands.
READ full article from Devoncroft
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March 12, 2010 |
Incospec
Communications' Content to Its Distribution Tour a hit in
Montréal and Toronto Judging from both the
attendance and collected comments, this timely technical
seminar event, was well received and confirmed Incospec's
continued presence in the communications industry. Images
from both cities.
Many thanks to all who participated, presented and
coordinated the event. |
Louis Sebastiani opening with the industry
trends speech |
Mike Nudi Harmonic goes over application
guide for compression solutions. |
Ben Vandenberghe came in from Belgium to
provide a fascinating overview of their Network Management
System "DataMiner" |
A compelling presentation on OpenGear from
Pierre Louis Landry |
Rich Chernock from Triveni made it to the
Montréal to talk about ip transport inside ATSC |
Demonstration of live mobile TV offered by
Axcera |
3reedom Digital David J. Woods' teamed up
with Quantel to show off Pablo Post in 3D (Montréal) |
3reedom Digital's 3D camera set-up
(Montréal) |
Great location at the Renaissance in
Toronto |
Rich Schwartz
Axcera talking about ATSC M/H (Toronto) |
Our engineer Mario Roy was on hand for
Triveni Digital StreamScope demos |
Richard Baker goes in depth with Reference
Monitors 101 in Toronto |
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| Feb. 15th, 2010 |
Incospec Communications launches new Web site
Old site currently
being converted to
an information and solutions packed version.
Strategic planning, brainstorming and drafting sessions, Incospec goes on-line with their new revamped web site. You will find many new
manufacturers, as well as emerging technologies and answers to industry trends and needs, including file based workflow solutions, multi-platform delivery solutions, real-time video transport solution and more. The team of David Gouin and Guy Myre from Iris Communications was given the mandate to create one of the most complete dealer related web sites in the industry. Due to the upcoming "From Content to Distribution 2010 Tour", the site has been launched while we are still in the sections updating stage. The missing pages will be updated shortly and once the new site is fully completed, the French version will be converted to the new look shortly afterwards. Nous ne vous avons pas oublié, ça s'en vient.
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| Feb. 12th, 2010 |
Incospec "Content to its Distribution 2010" Tour
Set for Montreal Tuesday March 9th and Toronto March 11th.
Be our guests in Montreal
Tuesday March 9th and Toronto Thursday March 11th for a full day of information packed
technical seminars covering numerous aspects of the television industry and its distribution either via terrestrial, fiber, satellite, telco or IP links.
Our goal is to provide educational seminars which cover some of the hot subjects and concerns of our changing industry. We have gathered top presentations on the latest emerging technologies and solutions which answer the current business and operational challenges facing broadcasters and broadband telecommunications providers. Due to the quantity of the seminars and the different market segments they address, seminars will be running in two separate rooms. The costs of the event will be covered by Incospec in cooperation with several manufacturers, but these free seminars will require your pre-registration. For more details and for the list and description of each presentation, consult the Events Section of our website. When ready, go to our on-line registration page. Hope to see you there… |
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Jan. 28th & 29th,
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Incospec plays a major role at Tour Tech’s "All Access 2010 Show"
in Halifax
Part of the first stop of the “Content to its Distribution Tour” , Halifax got a taste of both broadcast related subjects and an overview of technologies which have trickled down to the general communications industries.
Besides coordinating the seminar section of the show, with a total of 28 seminars, Incospec was instrumental in the staging of half the seminars with product specialist covering subjects from IPTV, Stereoscopic TV, Reference monitors, Live streaming, Multiformat files workflows, Audio over IP, Digital signage, working with mobile HD trucks for live events, Advanced compression solutions, DTV transmission and much more. Besides the complications of snow storm on the Friday, it was a record attendance for this year’s event. Many thanks go out to our partners: Digital Rapids, Musicam USA, Axcera, Nevion, Quantel, Caissie Images, Tamuz, GVG and everyone at Tour Tech East.
Pictures and presentation downloads to be available shortly. |
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| Dec. 13th, 2009 |
Incospec's Jean-François Richard
participates in the 9th running of Eastern North America's biggest fundraising ski event:
the 24h Tremblant!
Not only did the 189 teams raise over $ 1.5 million to help sick and underprivileged kids, Jean-François’s team members came in 19th in the over all race. Downhill skiing on Tremblant’s hills (about an hour and a half north of Montreal) in the middle of the night at -24 celcius (besides the wind chill factor) is a feat in itself, but as a team, pulling it off for 24 hours straight is a great personal victory. All to raise funds for a good cause.
Bravo JF. |
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| Dec 8th, 2009 |
Incospec Communications organises the Stereoscopic TV evening of presentations @ SMPTE Montreal held at SRC/CBC
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Incospec’s Pierre Louis Landry (SMPTE Montreal past chairman) opens the evening with his updated Industry Trends report related to the developments of 3D in television. |
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His roster of guests for the evening included Mr. Mark Northeast from Quantel doing an overview on Stereoscopic TV. Mr. David J. Woods, 3reedom Digital covered “Shooting live 3D events, what we have learned along the way”. |
We witnessed a World premiere presentation of Single lens 3D technology from ISee3D and finally an overview of SensioTV’s technology in the “3D in the living room” from stereoscopic TV, DVD players and interactive game consoles. Over 140 guests participated in this special presentation which targeted the use of 3D in the homes.
Copies of the presentations are available from the Montreal chapter SMPTE web site at http://www.smpte.org/sections/montreal/historique/ |
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| Dec 8-10th, 2009 |
Incospec’s transmission specialist, Mr. Denis Dion gives “Conversion to DTV and Single Frequency Networks (SFN)” presentation at WABE in Calgary.
 
In conjunction with Axcera, a separate room was required away from our booth in the exhibit hall, to go into depth in the realities of DTV transmission as well as a discussion on Mobility. A full 2 hour session is planned for Montreal and Toronto March 9th and 11th. Stay tuned.
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| Sept. 28-29th, 2009 |
Incospec and Axcera hosts hospitality suite at CCBE,
Horseshoe resort, ON
Some event
highlights at this year’s CCBE.
-Incospec Communications and Axcera has a hospitality suite at CCBE annual get together for Central Canadian Broadcast Engineers, it was also the introduction of our new team member,
Mr. Richard Baker which will be taking care of sales in
the Central and Western Canada.
Pictured in order; Mr. Denis Dion, TV and FM Transmission sales, Louis Sebastiani,
General Manager, and Richard Baker, Ontario and Western Sales.
Dale Dalesio from Axcera was also on hand to talk about transmitter requirements and give a glimpse of DTVision™ digital signal analysis and test system as well as their exciter/modulator.
A major crowd pleaser,
Incospec hosts a "Guess country of origin wine tasting contest".
During a blind tasting event held over two days, several guests were able to sniff out the wines originating from Portugal, Australia and Canada. Besides the challenge and the teasing, our winner of the 23inch LCD monitor went to Frank Malanga from MCI.
Check us out in Suite 315 next year, since we will be back with more surprises.
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| Aug 27th, 2009 |
Mario Sebastiani-Incospec & Tony Holmes-Trilithic, presents seminar
at CCTA on “Egress and Ingress Testing & Troubleshooting”
How the Egress and Ingress of unwanted signals in the forward and reverse plant affect
Picture,
Data and Voice quality.
What to look for and how to fix it.
Download Presentation |
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| Jul 16th, 2009 |
Mr. Mario Sebastiani defends the communications needs
of rural Canada with response to the CRTC concerning:
“Consultation on Transition to Broadband Radio Service (BRS) in the Band 2500-2690 MHz.”
Click on
document to download his response.
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| 2009 |
Four Technical colleges rely on
Incospec expertise for academic content:
Incospec was awarded turnkey contracts by four different technical schools in Quebec, Canada (Collège Édouard-Montpetit, Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, Collège Ahuntsic and Cégep de Sherbrooke) to provide at different levels for each school a digital television headend and a hybrid fiber and coax (HFC) distribution network. In addition to providing, installing and commissioning the equipment, these projects included providing theoretical and practical training to the schools professors. A special curriculum was developed for these projects covering MPEG Compression and Transport Streams, Multiplexing, 8VSB, QAM and QPSK modulation, satellite reception principles, DOCSIS introduction, Hybrid Fibre and Coax (HFC) network design principles, balancing and operation. |
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| 2007-2008 |
Incospec was awarded the contract to design, supply, install, commission and train Intercable Reunion SAS personnel ( www.zeop.re / www.intercable.ca) on the digital TV headend portion of their HFC network in the Reunion Island (French Overseas Department), including:
- TV services reception: satellite reception, Off-Air reception and fibre feed;
- Multiplexing equipment, encryption and Electronic Program Guide ;
- Edge QAM modulation and distribution to DVB-C Set Top Boxes
For this same project, Incospec was also awarded the contract to supply the active and passive network equipment and to train Intercable’s personnel on one of the first DOCSIS 3.0 ready (5-85MHz/104-1003MHz) HFC networks using Motorola and Alpha
UPS gear.
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| 2007 |
Design, supply, commissioning and training of a wireless MMDS television transmission system (including the satellite reception and cable television headend) for a third workers’ camp in northern Quebec (Canada) in order to supply television services to the workers on site.
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| 2006 |
During the course of the year, 3 major HFC operators serving Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Trinidad purchased test equipment gear from Incospec to meet their triple task requirements as such; forward and reverse sweeping, return path alignment and balancing plus return path ingress monitoring, certification and troubleshooting. This triple task solution provided in alliance with Trilithic was sustained by the flexibility of 5-65 MHz reverse bandwidth, the DOCSIS 2.0 platform and the joint training provided to the technicians.
Some of the operators are now considering upgrading their
test equipment for DOCSIS 3.0 compliance.
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| 2006 |
The Axcera/Incospec team provides several new exciter/driver retrofits for aging analog VHF and UHF transmitters across Canada. These projects were completed successfully thanks to
their well renowned expertise and experience of hundreds of exciter retrofit systems in television stations and their ability and flexibility to integrate with practically all transmitter models in the market.
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| 2005-2006 |
Incospec supplies, installs, commissions and performs training on cable television and video conference systems for the military hospitals of Oran and Constantine in Algeria.
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| Fall 2005 |
The Axcera/Incospec team sells the first VHF DTV transmitter in Canada to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
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| WABE 2005 |
Incospec introduces its new line of ultracompact FM transmitter products during the Western Association of Broadcast Engineers (WABE) show in Calgary. With only four rack units (4 RU), the OLP-3000FM, a 3,000W power amplifier, drew a lot of attention from the WABE attendees.
Click here to see these new FM products.
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| Summer 2005 |
Incospec completed the design of an automatic redundancy switch (Optic/RF) for the Motorola BTN optical nodes for both the downstream and upstream signals. Incospec was awarded a contract to supply 1,500 of these switches to the Montreal (Quebec) based MSO Videotron.
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| April 2005 |
Design, supply, installation
and commissioning of an HFC cable television network extension for Qatar Cablevision to the network implemented by Incospec in 1999.
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| 2004 |
Incospec celebrates 25 years of successful growth in the Broadband Telecommunications Industry.
The entry of Louis Sebastiani, son of the founder, to the management team will help propel Incospec to even greater heights.
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| 2003 |
La Société d’énergie de la Baie James (SEBJ), a division of Hydro Québec choses Incospec for their broadband requirements in Eastmain 1, Bay James. The turnkey project involve MMDS, CATV, TVRO and FM broadcasting technologies. See it in pictures !
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