SDVI is a well-connected startup working on "creating the next generation media supply chain." Part of this mission is enabling top broadcast customers to retain trusted brands and critical products in a virtualized form factor, and creating flexible and consistent software control.
Seeing this in action can be a beautiful thing - EEG's CCPlay FilePro post-production caption encoding and fix-up engine recently launched as one of many integrated tools available through SDVI's cloud service.
A recently published article in the UK's Broadcast TECH magazine interviewed SDVI founder and CEO Larry Kaplan as part of a series on startup activity in the broadcast industry. The interview emphasizes the growing momentum behind virtualized and cloud solutions.
Another perspective on this from industry consulting firm Devoncroft:
True to this timeline, vendors have been talking about the transition to software solutions for a while now, but lately there has been a rapid transition from wait-and-see to customers who are listening much more intently and asking specifcs on formats and capablities.
Here is the full SDVI interview in in an e-book form:
Curious to learn more? EEG has some big announcements in integrated and standalone IP captioning solutions coming up with the NAB show approaching, and we're looking forward to taking more and more questions about integration with SDVI as well.