TVU Networks has added an audio mixing panel to its cloud-based TVU Producer multicamera, cloud production tool.

Calrec is going the online education route, announcing the launch of the Calrec Sound Institute, which offers online certification training courses for Calrec products.

Dalet has announced the availability of a cloud-enabled version of its broadcast newsroom graphics solution, Dalet CubeNG. Powered by the Brainstorm real-time graphics engine, Dalet CubeNG includes tools to create and manage playout of 2D and 3D dynamic graphics and branding for news distributed via broadcast, digital and social channels.

ChyronHego’s TRACAB team in Sweden has achieved another important milestone in its latest developments towards a semi-automated offside technology, based upon the Emmy Award-winning TRACAB Gen5 optical tracking system. At a June 22 video conference hosted by ChyronHego and attended by FIFA and its Working Group for Innovation Excellence, the TRACAB team presented a demonstration of powerful new capabilities in TRACAB OCT (Offside Calling Technology) (Story on FIFA Website). Exploiting its AI-driven ball tracking for automated ball pass detection, combined with limb tracking and skeletal modeling derived from video feeds, the technology is showing great promise to support referees in the future to make fast and highly accurate offside calling decisions.

Panasonic is basically redesigning how video production is done. Rather than limit keyers, MEs, and outputs, Kairos is just pure processing power. So it can handle however many layers, inputs and outputs as the GPU and CPU can take. The world of video is changing. In many ways things are becoming simpler, as they become more complicated. If you were to take all the knowledge of video: speeds, frame rates, connectors, resolutions and put it in a blender to make a smoothie, you would have the Panasonic Kairos.

Panasonic has supplied the Serbian public TV broadcaster RTS with a professional system of studio cameras which consists of 30 sets of AK-HC5000GSJ cameras, with Camera Control Unit AK-UCU500ESJ, Remote Control Panel AK-HRP1000GJ and two models of viewfinders AK-HVF70GJ and AG-CVF15G.

Tokyo-based leading expert in motion picture and multimedia broadcasting production NTV Technical Resources Inc (NiTRo) is a major technical provider to the Japanese broadcasting industry with a range of media services, including production engineering, postproduction and broadcast operations and management. Following the launch of 8K broadcast channels in Japan in December 2018, NiTRo broke ground on a new state-of-the-art facility for 8K/UltraHD2 post-production in response to a surge in client requests for editing and delivery of 8K content.

Television production service provider HD BROADCAST has invested in six Leader LV5600 waveform monitors for installation in its new UHD OB2 outside broadcast production vehicle. The instruments will be used to ensure precise matching of incoming signal feeds and to maintain the highest possible video and audio signal quality through to the transmitted output. units were supplied by Leader Europe distribution partner LOGIC Media Solutions.

Cinegy GmbH has announced it is releasing a new version of its Cinegy Multiviewer platform, version 15.2. Cinegy Multiviewer 15.2 is designed for use both on-premise and for remote monitoring applications. It can display and analyze signals from satellites, camera feeds, playout devices and other local or remote sources, raising alerts for detected signal problems. The video streams can be received over IP, eg UDP/RTP, NDI, SRT via Ethernet or using standard SDI cards.

We all want more light for less power. So far, most of the industry has concentrated on making more efficient lightbulbs, and that's been great, but sometimes we've overlooked some of the other ways we can get more photons from light to subject.