Colombia. The Colombian company La Curacao, one of the companies with the longest history in the broadcast industry in the country, is optimistic about the behavior of the market for this year.
This was indicated to TVyVideo+Radio by Carlos Cuadros, director of projects and broadcast of the company. "We remain very optimistic about government investment opportunities, especially and some projects in the private broadcast sector," he said.
Referring to the use of new brands and technologies by the industry in his country, he commented that "Our market is quite traditional and that trend shows no signs of significant changes to take controlled risks with new brands."
He recalled that they recently participated in the renovation of the automated master control of one of their important TV clients, which is in its implementation phase.
The project consists of a duly redundant 1+1 integrated system, which includes traffic, cataloguing, content validation, character generation and graphic insertion, creation of programming grids, legal copy and automatic broadcast of 8 simultaneous channels in 7x24 operation and with the capacity to switch 4 HD SDI 1920 x 1080i signals including a storage of minimum 64 Tb with two channels of HD SDI 1920 X 1080 59.94i ingest. as well as the software for the management of the respective channels.
Finally, Carlos Cuadros indicated that for NAB Show 2024 he expects to find "trends of new codecs, evolution and adoption of solutions for contribution and routing of IP ecosystems, the eventual adoption in the industry of satellite internet alternatives that could at some point replace traditional fly-to-way solutions, as well as the value proposition of 5G to the challenging world of broadcast".
