EVS

The Instant Tapeless Innovator

Over 5.000 operators use the group's applications on a daily basis

Television Systems

Leader in live sport production

EVS is the leader in live outside broadcast digital video production systems. Its products are intelligent recorders combined with highly reactive applications that have now become a standard worldwide. The XT[2]® production platform enables the creation, editing and exchange of video files, leading to a marked evolution in the TV production process. More than 5,000 operators of all nationalities now use our group’s applications on a daily basis. EVS has developed substantial expertise in compressed video and audio data processing, and intends to remain an innovator in the migration from analogue to digital in television networks. In outside broadcast, worldwide, 35 to 50% of cameras record onto hard disks. In the new high definition production outside broadcast vans (“OB vans”), the penetration level is up to 60-100%. The replacement cycle of the trucks and their equipment has been accelerating since the introduction of HDTV format.

Challenger in multicamera near-live studio production

The evolution is similar for television stations, with the gradual replacement of tapes by new digital solutions. Today, 60 to 70% of production workflows are still tape-based. EVS focuses, in particular, on applications where the production speed is a key factor for success. Key products are the XT[2]® platform, the software suite [IP]Director® that manages flows of digital video and the speed editing solution CleanEdit that is mainly used by news departments. This is the “Speed to Air” strategy, which is particularly well suited to near-live studio production. The EVS market share in this segment is still low, but this new market does already represent 30% of group sales compared to 10% in 2003. EVS is also facing other major exciting challenges !

Digital Cinema Solutions

For some years now, XDC, a 47.2% subsidiary of EVS, has been active in the digitization of the cinema industry. This involves providing a digital solution to replace the 35 mm reels used to project films in cinemas. The integrated XDC solution meets the needs of the cinema operators as well as the film distributors and producers. Hundreds of thousands “digital” screenings have been carried out so far involving more than 400 different films. The potential is at the level of the calculated risk taken by XDC. The digital conversion has started and XDC is set to play a major role.