EVS Broadcast Equipment SA

Type	Public: Euronext: EVS
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Liège, Belgium
Industry	Broadcast Technology
Revenue	111,000,000 € (2008)
Employees	233 (2008)
Website	EVS website

Contents 1 EVS Broadcast 2 Products 3 External links 4 Références

[edit] EVS Broadcast

EVS manufactures live outside broadcast digital video production systems. Its recorders have become the dominant standard for broadcasters worldwide. Their XT[2] production video servers enable the creation, editing, exchange and playout of audio and video feeds.

The company states that over 5,000 operators of all nationalities now use their applications on a daily basis.

EVS has achieved substantial success in compressed video and audio data processing, and is endeavouring to maintain their market position in the migration from analogue to digital in television networks.

Tapeless television production

The programming of the television networks consists primarily of broadcasting prerecorded images which, until very recently, were stored on tapes. But linear editing (or editing on tape) is being replaced by digital media or non-linear editing. Today, digital technology on hard disk (non-linear, by definition) is the common alternative. There has been clear confirmation of a migration towards this technology for some years, even though it will still take another 5 to 6 years or so for the hard disk penetration rate to increase from 30% to 70%. Television stations began migrating to tapeless interoperable computer platforms beginning in the late 1990s. Video recorders are rarely used nowadays for live productions. EVS type digital media servers are the norm in Broadcasting.

Company history

EVS Broadcast Equipment S.A. was founded in February 1994 by Laurent Minguet, Pierre L’Hoest and Michel Counson. The founders of EVS aimed to develop equipment for the digital recording of pictures on hard disks (disk recorders) for professionals within the television industry : the broadcasters.

[edit] Products

EVS is almost worldly known for the following products

• XT[2]: this video server allows broadcasters to record, control and play clips, ingesting synchronously multiple feeds.
• Multicam[LSM]: this is the controller software for the previous XT[2] server. Combined with its remote controller, it allows instant replays and slow-motion effects, widely used in sport broadcast.
• IPDirector : this is a software used to control the XT[2] server offering several features as metadata management, rough cut editing, playlist management…

[edit] External links

• EVS global website
• EVS website
• XDC website

[edit] Références

• Reuters article about the EVS XT server
• TVB Europe
• Sportsvideo
• Broadcast Engineering
• Broadcast Buyer
• Broadcastingcable
• HDTV magazine