Forbidden showcases Blackbird’s cloud experience on Microsoft’s Azure IBC 2018 stand

Posted: 11/09/2018

September 11, 2018, London – Forbidden Technologies plc, the developer and seller of Blackbird®, will be working with Microsoft at IBC 2018 to showcase Blackbird’s workstation experience in the cloud. Blackbird is fully integrated with Microsoft Azure Media Services.

Production teams use Blackbird running on Azure Media Services to turn live video into edited and enriched stories. These are published through Blackbird and hosted on Azure. The service is accessed using any browser on any device from anywhere in the world.

Blackbird is the only solution on the market that provides such responsive frame-accurate navigation in the cloud. It plays edited media directly without any need for pre-render, and its integrated Blackbird Waveform supports jog and shuttle, as well as any playback speed and direction.

Deltatre, a leading supplier of digital and broadcast services in the sports sector, is an extensive user of Blackbird through Azure Media Services. Deltatre uses Blackbird to extend its OTT offering of editing services for live and on-demand content for a wide range of sports including American football, athletics, golf, rugby and cycling.

In one example Blackbird Forte is used to edit live highlights for 256 games per season of a major US sport all using Azure.

To meet the Blackbird team please visit the Blackbird exhibit on the Microsoft booth in Hall 1, #C27. For more information about IBC 2018 please visit https://show.ibc.org/.

Forbidden CEO, Ian McDonough said: “‘We are very happy to work with Microsoft Azure on their stand this year. It’s a great opportunity for us to showcase our Blackbird Edge software operating in Azure and a ground-breaking workflow that has come as a result of our cooperation.’

Tony Emerson, Managing Director, Worldwide Media & Entertainment Microsoft Corp. said, “In today’s demanding news, media and digital industry, our mutual customers depend on solutions such as Blackbird to increase speed to market. We are pleased Forbidden Technologies plc will make the Blackbird cloud platform available to Microsoft Azure customers, further enhancing their ability to create and manage digital content, while reducing production costs and fostering workforce flexibility.”

About Forbidden Technologies plc

Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk) floated in February 2000. Forbidden develops, markets and licenses a powerful cloud video platform using its patented Blackbird technology. The technology underpins multiple applications which are used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, post-production houses, other mass market digital video channels, and corporations.

The Blackbird technology allows full visibility on multi-location digital content, improves time to market for live content such as video clips and highlights for social media distribution which results in improved monetisation of video content.

To find out more about Blackbird Forte and Blackbird Ascent contact commercial@blackbird.video or visit www.blackbird.video

Blackbird® is a registered trademark of Forbidden Technologies plc.