As the International Broadcast Conference (IBC) kicks off in Amsterdam, a spotlight shines on NetOn.Live, a Brussels-based startup that is set to revolutionize the world of live broadcasting. The 57th edition of this prestigious event, gathering over 1,250 companies, will showcase the latest advancements in broadcast technology. With participants from 170 countries, including about thirty Belgian companies, the conference is a key opportunity for networking and deal-making. Among the attendees is the Belgian start-up NetOn.Live that stands out for its potential to transform live production workflows.
Discover how VRT leads the way in broadcast innovation with NetOn.Live in this article.
The original article (in Dutch) by Belgian newspaper “De Tijd” can be read here.
At IBC 2024, on booth 10.C12, NetOn.Live will introduce the latest features to its LiveOS video-over-IP production platform. The new capabilities include an enhanced sports workflow and a universal multiviewer, further enabling local, remote, and decentralized live media production on COTS IT servers in a SMPTE 2110 network. Read the full press release here.
VRT Belgium, the official broadcaster of the largest multisport event this summer in Paris, built three pop-up streaming channels using LiveOS to deliver more sports broadcasts than ever to their viewers.
As Martijn Reymen, team lead of VRT’s engineering team that built the setup, puts it: “We do this on LiveOS because it enables us to adapt flexibly to the needs of new productions.”
You can read a translation to English of the VRT blog post over here.
You can read VRT’s blog post in Dutch about this project over here.
No fewer than 7 productions were running simultaneously on the VRT LiveOS platform:
LiveOS enables our customers to build new tailor-made productions quickly and efficiently, making them more agile, cost-efficient, and ultimately increasing their viewership. Congratulations to everybody involved for your outstanding effort and dedication!
We are proud to announce the integration with online HTML5 graphics template builder Loopic.io
Loopic is a visual Javascript animation creator whose primary goal is to make the process of building broadcast graphic templates as easy as possible.
As a brand new feature of the Loopic 2.0 release, graphics templates created in Loopic can now be imported into LiveOS, through a dedicated LiveOS export function. The templates can be played out, modified and provided with custom data within LiveOS, such as the title info for the lower thirds animations, or the score and time of your sports game.
It is easier than ever to create your own graphics templates and play them directly in LiveOS!
Experience the latest innovations on the LiveOS platform, and find out how LiveOS can support your news, sports, entertainment and event productions.
The following new applications and features will be introduced:
You can find the full article on NetOn.Live’s NAB 2024 presence here.
VRT’s 2023 charity event “De Warmste Week” (DWW) is a week long live event the week before Christmas, taking place in Bruges (Belgium) and broadcast live 24/7 on a pop-up TV channel and on the VRT live streaming platform. Every evening a talk show reviewing the highlights of the day is being produced on VRT’s LiveOS platform, as it proved very reliable and easy to use last year.
VRT technology and operations teams designed a unique remote production workflow, using a combination of terrestrial transmission and JPEG-XS ultra low latency compression to interconnect the DWW studiofloor and control room in Bruges with the LiveOS platform in the VRT broadcast center in Brussels. Read this case study here.
At the recent Paris Games Week (PGW) video games trade show, held at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, BOB (Boîte à Outils Broadcast) and Puzzle Média collaborated to establish an exceptionally innovative workflow. They employed the LiveOS solution from NetOn.Live to efficiently produce and live stream the event. They used a remote production workflow where camera operators and the director (!) were roaming around on the showfloor, amongst presenters, guests and gaming consoles. Read this case study here.
Dive into the journey of Belgium’s Dutch-language public broadcaster, VRT, as they embrace the revolutionary, all-software LiveOS video production platform. Witness how VRT’s engineering team, led by Arnoud Delporte, meticulously selected the perfect solution to simplify tasks and enhance operator experience. Please click here to read more about VRT’s quest for innovation and efficiency.
At IBC 2023, on booth 10.C10, NetOn.Live is showcasing the latest version of its innovative LiveOS Production Platform. We will demonstrate a lot of new specialized applications, features and partner integrations, a full list can be found in our IBC 2023 Press Release. Read the full press release here.
As part of NEP Finland’s recent move to its new headquarters, the company built three new studios and five control rooms in Helsinki’s western Pasila district. One of the central goals in building these state-of-the-art, IP-based facilities, was to automate and streamline production for popular weekly shows such as the Finnish Lotto and Eurojackpot. In this Customer Testimonial article, Jyrki Lepistö, the COO of NEP Finland, explains why they chose LiveOS and how it has innovated NEP’s production process. Read the article here. (picture courtesy of Veikkaus)
LiveOS goes on-air every day at Belgian public broadcaster VRT. VRT produces the news for the hearing impaired (Vlaamse Gebarentaal Journaal) in a self-operated LiveOS studio. Cameras and incoming news feeds are sent to the LiveOS platform in VRT’s datacenter over their ST 2110 network; the PGM out signals are going in ST 2110 from LiveOS to the VRT MCR.
If you like to watch the VGT News, you can log in to the VRT Max platform by clicking here.
NEP Finland has implemented a new production system and automated graphics workflow for the Lotto and Eurojackpot live productions. The highly flexible and versatile platform is powered by LiveOS, SPX graphics and our partner Pipeline Media. The collaboration has enhanced the quality, efficiency, and speed of the broadcasts, delivering a more engaging and immersive experience to viewers. Read the full press release here. (picture courtesy of Veikkaus)
At NAB 2023, on booth C1812, NetOn.Live, an innovative provider of live and remote IP production solutions, is showcasing the latest version of its revolutionary LiveOS Production Platform for live IP-based media production. The LiveOS platform allows organizations to design, configure, and quickly spin up multiple concurrent productions, such as drama, sports, news, and entertainment. Read the full Press Release here.
A LiveOS mobile platform was used to produce a daily, live and on-location talk show in December during VRT’s “De Warmste Week” charity event. The talk show was aired during prime time on VRT’s main TV channel “één” and on the VRT Max OTT platform. The feedback after a week of daily operations was unanimously positive. We look forward to repeating this event and many more this year!
The Cloud Media Production project has been selected for the Digital Transformation program by the Flemish Government. The Cloud Media Production project is an innovative collaboration between NetOn.Live, Bruzz and De Buren. The project investigates remote live media production strategies and how cloud architectures can enable innovative workflows. You can read the press release here (dutch).
LiveOS has been chosen by Belgian public broadcaster VRT as the video service for their Software Based Studio Project. NetOn.Live was awarded the contract after going through a public tender process. With this strategic and forward-looking project VRT wants to make its production environment more adaptable and scalable so that they can focus more on users, creativity, and work processes.
Read the full press release here.
Together with THEO Technologies we’ve developed an end-to-end live production workflow with a worldwide delivery in under 2 seconds, glass to glass. In layman’s terms: less than two seconds after the goal has been scored, you can watch it on your phone, tv or laptop wherever you are. A workflow very suitable for live sports, news, auctions, education or sports betting. In this LinkedIn Article you can find more detail on how this workflow is built and what you can do with it.
In this LinkedIn article, NetOn.Live zooms in on how moving to software for live production will result in lower energy, maintenance & engineering costs, more flexibility, shareability and many other benefits.
In this video we explain how LiveOS and the Matrox Monarch EDGE SRT encoders & decoders, are succesfully being used to offer a remote live sports production workflow over the public internet. This is a recording of a presentation that was given during the SVG SI summit in March 2022.
In this video Karel (Brussels – BE), Pelle (Stockholm – SE) and David (Singapore – SG) are collaborating on the same live production at the same time. They each log on to the same LiveOS production via the web browser on their laptop. The production is a 3 camera show (SMPTE 2110 signals), running on a LiveOS system in the NetOn.Live headquarters (BE).
In this video Karel explains what the LiveConnect Video over IP Network Switches and SDN solution can bring to the table for professional video infrastructures.