2010 EMEA PR Review



The year started out with a bang when Chyron supplied 3D stereoscopic graphics for the first-ever live broadcast of the Six Nations Rugby match of England vs. Wales. The broadcast from Twickenham Stadium on February 6^th was viewed in more than 40, 3D-equipped cinemas around the UK and excited fans were able to share the best seat in the house.  Following the success of the first game, Chyron worked with Wurmers, SIS Live and Inition on the 27^th of February match.

Later in the year, Chyron made history providing graphics for the first live stereoscopic 3D concert by German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier, also known as FANTA4. The concert managed by Mitteldeutsches Multimediazentrum Halle was held at Steintor-Varieté in Halle an der Saale on September 28^th. Chyron’s revolutionary on-air graphics were the backbone of the stereoscopic experience and were displayed in over 90 cinemas in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. FANTA4 fans had the opportunity to see every graphic pop through the screen while being treated to a front row experience.

UK broadcast graphics company “MOOV,” was one of the first to realize the potential of Lyric PRO 8 in EMEA. In October 2010,  “MOOV” used Chyron’s HyperX graphics infrastructure for the Wimbledon tennis championship and prior to that during the summer Commonwealth Games for the BBC.  The biggest benefit of version 8 for “MOOV” during Wimbledon was to easily create “Seeds Boards” with corresponding animations before they actually knew the winners using Intelligent Conditional Transitions.  For the Commonwealth Games, “MOOV” created an original new “Coming Up” sequence for the multi-sport event that opened up with the New Delhi Skyline and numerous kites flying in the sky. Using the powerful, Inherit State feature, the sequence was able to display any country’s flags in any order, at any time with “turn-on-a-dime” flexibility.

 

In September, Chyron announced that they powered the newly launched Sky Sports News in HD, Europe’s first HD sports news channel. This latest push into the world of HD was yet another example of Sky’s dedication to broadcast excellence. This also marks the third time that Sky Sports has employed the use of Lyric PRO 8.  Chyron is a long time partner of Sky Sports News and has been an integral partner in the launch of the HD channel. Chyron’s involvement in this latest venture went beyond providing the graphic systems; Chyron’s dedicated Creative Services team worked closely with the Sports team to integrate the new captivating graphical look of the channel.

 

Wrapping up a successful year of EMEA PR, Chyron announced in December that sit-up shopping, one of the largest and fastest-growing TV retailers in the U.K., upgraded to a HyperX³ on-air graphics system, giving its broadcast presence a new look, thanks to the Chyron Creative Services team. Together, the HyperX³ system and graphics upgrade improve the quality and continuity of on-screen content while making it easier for sit-up shopping staff to enhance programming with motion graphics and 3D text elements. sit-up shopping launched the new look on its bid tv channel as part of a tenth birthday celebration.

Leading TV Retailer sit-up shopping Builds New Look on Chyron HyperX³ Graphics System

 

Chyron announced that sit-up shopping, one of the largest and fastest-growing TV retailers in the U.K., has upgraded to a HyperX³ on-air graphics system, giving its broadcast presence a new look, thanks to the Chyron Creative Services team. Together, the HyperX³ system and graphics upgrade improve the quality and continuity of on-screen content while making it easier for sit-up shopping staff to enhance programming with motion graphics and 3D text elements. sit-up shopping launched the new look on its bid tv channel as part of a tenth birthday celebration, and the retailer will launch new looks for its price-drop tv and speed auction tv channels in early 2011.

 

“With their tremendous experience in broadcast graphics, the Chyron team has a deep understanding of how graphics impact and engage television viewers,” said Mark Hall, senior business development manager at sit-up shopping. “We approached Chyron just months before our planned graphics relaunch, and the Creative Services team responded quickly, enabling us to go live and on schedule with a polished, dynamic, and user-friendly new look. The Chyron HyperX³ upgrade and graphics update have given our team a lot of momentum, as well as the tools and motivation to keep improving our broadcasts.”

 

sit-up shopping boasts three of the most popular digital home shopping channels: bid tv, price-drop tv, and speed auction tv. Broadcast seven days a week, these channels are available to millions of digital homes via Virgin TV, Freeview, Sky, and the Web. Since its launch in 2000, sit-up shopping has appeared on The Sunday Times “Fast Track 100” list and on the Financial Times “Top 50 Creative Businesses” list.

 

Seeking to maintain its competitive and creative edge, sit-up shopping has taken advantage of the Chyron HyperX³ system’s powerful performance and 3D graphics capabilities to make bid tv text and images pop off the screen. Part of a wholesale overhaul of the bid tv set and on-air look, the new graphical approach also offers a much more visually cohesive product.

 

“sit-up shopping is one of the world’s most popular TV retailers largely because of its commitment to quality and its success in encouraging viewers to ‘sit up’ and engage,” said Bonnie Barclay, vice president and chief marketing officer at Chyron. “With its new HyperX³ system and graphics scheme, sit-up shopping is equipped to provide crisp, clear 3D text and to control graphics playout and transitions with a new degree of precision.”

 

Chyron’s flagship on-air graphics system, HyperX³ features seamless creation-to-playout capability, real-time 2D/3D animation, and a host of hardware and software features. The system is scalable to two independent channels and incorporates optional DVEs, clips, and the Lyric PRO 8 advanced creation and playout package, which includes a completely new 3D text rendering engine.

Pictures from the Texas Association of Broadcasters

Enjoy pictures from the Texas Association of Broadcasters Show earlier this month!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Congratulations to the Lucky Winners Who Flipped Over Quintette

TAB Flip Camera Winner - Abel Villareal with Chyron's Gene Sudduth

Abel Villareal, one of our lucky winners

Chyron Booth at TAB

Congratulations also to Leonard Welch our other winner from the Texas Association of Broadcasters Show!

Have YOU flipped over Quintette yet?
Call your regional sales manager for a demo today!

Flip Over Chyron’s Quintette at TAB 2010

At the 57th Annual Texas Association of
Broadcasters Convention & Trade Show
Quintette is the Star of the Show

Five things you need to know about Quintette

1. 4 independent playout channels.
2. Control all from a single user interface.
3. Completely configured to easily install into your newsroom system.
4. Graphics asset management — totally covered.
5. You can see it LIVE at TAB

4 Playout Channels with Clips

A simple user interface controls 4 independent channels with integrated hardware clips per channel.  A Graphics Asset Management and distribution server completely interfaces to iNews, Annova, Dalet, ENPS and Si Media newsroom systems.

Place Orders from a Browser

1-year subscription for 10 AXIS track & order seats supporting fully integrated enterprise-wide hosted order management. Order graphics and video assets and have them seamlessly travel to the playout device without any manual intervention. Share video and graphic content throughout a station or group of stations with Chyron’s hosted web service.

Rundown Creation

For shows such as Sports, Elections or Entertainment, rundowns can also be created outside the newsroom system with the same efficient workflow. Drag and drop graphic images and movie files into offline or live rundowns using similar tools familiar to the producer.

Quintette comes with full system software and hardware support for one year and is pre-packaged with remote system installation, setup and testing providing a very low cost of ownership.

Drop by TAB Booth #7 to see it for yourself.

Chyron’s New Products to Make European Debut at IBC

For over forty years, Chyron has been the best-in-breed supplier of graphics hardware, software and services for the broadcast industry. In September, Chyron will take the stage at the world’s premier global electronic media industry event in Amsterdam to launch the following products to the European market:

• Lyric^® PRO Version 8 – creation and playback software is the global choice of broadcasters for live sports, entertainment, elections and news programming. It has true international language support. Stereoscopic 3D is a reality today and Version 8 provides the tools for creating true stereoscopic 3D graphics.
• Quintette – is a “Total Solution” from Chyron.  Based on Chyron’s Lyric PRO technology and graphics production workflow, Quintette is a complete newsroom graphics suite, with 4 playout channels and a simple user interface available today.

• Channel Box² – takes branding to a whole new level in efficiencies and return on investment.  The platform delivers more HD capabilities including 3 HD DVEs.  Customers can benefit from the new universal 4.0 software release which includes VB Scripting, API, Automatic file monitoring, XKeys Pro support, Dynamic image and Movie replacement, User Interface enhancements and much more.

Also on display will be what is quickly becoming a flagship product for Chyron – AXIS.  Chyron AXIS is the proven leader in on-demand graphics production.  AXIS is the only source for creating, compositing and distributing graphics content creation in the cloud.  Media professionals producing content in AXIS can repurpose it for broadcast, newspapers, mobile and digital media content.  At its core, AXIS is easy to use, enabling the production and management of high-quality graphics, maps and charts, simply through the use of an Internet connection and a Web browser. Seamlessly integrated into your production workflow, AXIS enables you to create in the cloud, reduce costs and collaborate with ease, anytime or anywhere.

When/Where: September 10-14, 2010

The Amsterdam RAI

The Netherlands

STAND: 7.D11

Australia’s Global Television Talks About #Chyron

MOOV SERVES UP GRAPHICS FOR WIMBLEDON

Chyron today has announced that UK’s broadcast graphics company “MOOV” is using Chyron HyperX graphics infrastructure for this year’s Wimbledon tennis championship on the BBC.

“MOOV” is the first graphics operation in the UK to realize the potential of Chyron’s newest software version, Lyric PRO 8. The biggest benefit of version 8 for “MOOV” was to easily create “Seeds Boards” with corresponding animations before they actually knew the winners. MOOV also wrote a new results control interface to the HyperX’s that uses XML updates from IBM.

MOOV Managing Director Duncan Foot said, “We have used Chyron graphic systems in the past for various sporting events with tremendous success. With the added features of Lyric PRO 8 and the power, flexibility and speed of the HyperX, we knew that it was the best choice for such a high profile event like Wimbledon.

Chyron Vice President of Sales, EAME, Paul Glasgow said, “MOOV is one of Europe’s most innovative graphics services providers.  We are delighted to contribute to MOOVs success at such a prestigious event.”

Enter to win an iPad at Promax

iSQ – Lyric Playout Panel

The iSQ has a nifty feature cal Lyric Playout Panel that lets the iSQ user control the Lyric devices that are connected to it. It is possible to do random access playout of graphics in the playlist as well as from the current working directory of Lyric.