bTV Media Group, Bulgaria’s TV audience leader, has installed state-of-the-art teleprompter and camera support equipment from Autoscript and Vinten in its all-new, innovative studio. Located in the Bulgarian capitol of Sofia, the futuristic broadcast newsroom incorporates seven Vinten Quartz pedestals with Vector 750 pan-and-tilt heads, together with Autoscript EPIC-IP17 teleprompters. Support Solutions Empower Flexibility Within Interactive 360-Degree Set.

China-based Shanxi Television has chosen a Calrec Brio36 audio console for its news programming and multi-purpose talk shows. This is the broadcaster’s second Brio installation with the first installed a year ago.

Sony’s new UWP-D series wireless microphones have begun shipping. The UWP-D21 wireless microphones are now available, with the UWP-D22 and UWP-D26 expected to ship in December.

Leader Electronics has added a function in the ZEN series waveform monitors and rasterizers LV5600/LV7600/LV5350/LV5300/LV7300 to decode and display the "SR Live Metadata" packet advocated by Sony Imaging Products & Solutions Inc.

To meet its intercom needs, AZAF has become the first Polish OB rental company to offer ODIN, initially acquiring a 16-port matrix. Having made this first purchase, the company “was impressed” with the demand for ODIN from its customers. Thanks to the flexibility of the platform, it was subsequently able to expand its offering to 32-ports, ensuring it could meet customer demand.

Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and media monitoring solutions, today announced that its media monitoring system has been enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that dramatically speed up workflows. Using Actus Digital’s intelligent, data-driven platform, media companies can automatically tag, organise, and categorise video recordings to enable rapid retrieval of relevant content and clips creation for social media outlets and the web.

Audio director John Morgan and his crew at The Coalition, the award-winning development team behind the billion-dollar Gears of War franchise at Xbox Game Studios, used Lectrosonics wireless equipment to capture actors for Gears 5’s cinematics.

Building on its growing family of openGear products, AJA Video Systems unveiled three new openGear cards at IBC 2019, including the OG-FS-Mini, OG-ROI-DVI and OG-ROI-HDMI. OG-FS-Mini fuses the functionality of AJA’s newly announced FS-Mini frame synchronizer Mini-Converter with the openGear architecture, while OG-ROI-DVI and OG-ROI-HDMI support DVI or HDMI to SDI region-of-interest scaling, scan conversion and image rotation in the openGear format. Each card is designed for use in openGear 2RU frames including AJA’s OG-X-FR 2RU frame, and can be remotely configured, monitored and controlled over a PC or local network using Ross DashBoard software.

ATEME, the provider of video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, recently worked with Eurovision Services on a proof-of-concept to trial an watermarking solution in June 2019 during “a major international football event” in Paris, France.

PHABRIX, a provider of test and measurement solutions, has supplied three additional Qx rasterisers to NEP UK’s inventory for its OB trucks and flypacks, for use at high profile events including Wimbledon and the 2019 Rugby World Cup.