With the growing use of the Unreal Engine to create AR and graphics for live broadcast, AJA announced its KONA 4 and Corvid 44 are the first video cards with built-in support for the engine. There are first video cards to enable HD/SDI input into Unreal Engine, delivering a low cost, low-latency solution for augmented reality applications for live broadcast.

Sony has announced a number of firmware updates on the PXW-X200, PXW-Z90 and HXR-NX80. These camcorders are very popular and the free updates bring a variety of benefits to operational functions and network improvements.

UK-based Glensound designed the Dante/ AES67 two-channel bi-directional audio interface AoIP22. This unit can be used to connect existing analog equipment to a Dante / AES67 network audio system. The AoIP22 is a PoE (Power over Ethernet) unit, thus requiring a single cable for integration into a variety of environments.

German manufacturer RTW has been producing audio signal monitoring tools for over 50 years. In 2010 RTW’s expertise in the area of monitoring tools culminated in the launch of the TouchMonitor range - a new generation of touch enabled monitors. To give you an idea of the success of the range, virtually all of the major mixing console vendors include OEM versions of their flagship TM7 or TM9 models.

TVN MOBILE PRODUCTION has selected Leader LV5490 test instruments as its master reference during coverage of the UEFA Champions League final. A capacity crowd at the NSC Olimpiyskiy stadium in Kiev saw Real Madrid secure its third consecutive and 13th overall UEFA Champions League title. The game was transmitted live in UHD and HD to television viewers around the world.

The SD Association just announced a new standard of SD cards which paves the way into the (very data-hungry) future: SD Express combines gigantic capacities of up to 128TB with SSD-like transfer speeds in order to keep pace with the developments of the tech industry.

Axon's Cerebrum platform has been deployed to deliver Host Broadcast Services for the Wimbledon Championships. NEP UK will use the platform to control and monitor its complex IP workflow at the global tennis event.

Wireless microphone transmitters have increasingly gotten smaller and smaller, but this reduction in size has come at a cost – more heat. K-Tek has a new way to protect talent from heat produced by wireless microphone transmitters worn on set. This comes in the form of the K-Tek Stingray HeatBlock transmitter pouches and HeatBlock Pieces — handy swatches of the same fabric, to try and counteract this problem.

Cinegy introduced Cinegy Air PRO 12 broadcast automation and real-time, multi-channel video playout software for SD, HD and/or Ultra HD (4K) playout in a single, integrated suite – further fortifying Cinegy’s claim of truly delivering “Software Defined Television”. Major customer-led improvements for Cinegy Air PRO 12 include a new cloud and VM-ready software licensing and deployment system; full support for the ultra-fast DANIEL2 GPU codec; the support of additional IP video standards adding SMPTE 2022-6 and NewTek’s NDI; and most importantly adding HDR functionality.

ChyronHego has released the latest version of its universal graphics platform. PRIME Graphics 3.0 stacks an array of diverse applications into a single design and playout solution. The advanced 3D graphics authoring and playout solution from ChyronHego has been enhanced with support for the newly adopted SMPTE ST 2110 standard and with HDR-enabled 16-bit colour, which allows the platform to deliver 10-bit HDR output in the customer's choice of HLG or S-Log3 formats.