DHD.audio will demonstrate new additions to its range of digital audio studio equipment and systems at Hamburg Open 2022. The show is scheduled to take place from Wednesday January 19th (10:00 – 18:00) through Thursday 20th (10:00 - 16:00).

Highlights of the DHD exhibit on Booth 107 in Hall H of Congress Center Hamburg will be a highly space efficient new desktop mixing console, new core processors optimised for IP device control and audio-over-IP, and latest-generation firmware: version 10.

Houston-based Intuitive Machines (IM)is a premiere provider and supplier of space products and services enabling sustainable exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond. In 2021, IM completed construction of its Nova Control, a state-of-the-art mission control center in Houston that will track and support a series of three upcoming missions to the moon (IM-1, IM-2 and IM-3), beginning in early 2022. Since completing Nova Control, IM has been conducting successful lunar landing simulations and mission control testing, making its Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network (LTN) the first ever validated commercial lunar distance communications network. Intuitive Machine’s LTN usesClear-Com®’sEclipse®HX Digital Matrix, V-Series Panels,Agent-IC®Mobile App and most recently,Station-IC™Virtual Desktop Client, to enable communications between ground teams responsible for tracking, telemetry and support for cis-lunar* space travel, landing and exploration.

Cobalt® Digital, designer and manufacturer of award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGear® initiative, has announced that the Company was one of the technology partners in NBCUniversal's “Groundbreaking Ultra HD at the Tokyo Olympic Games”, recipient of IBC’s Special Award.

SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, today announced that Florian Schleich has been elected to serve as SMPTE standards vice president, effective Jan. 1, 2022. In this role, he will be directing and supervising the standards projects of the Society.

Flowics, creator of the most comprehensive platform for powering remote and in-studio production of live graphics and interactive content, announced today that Jeff Fenley has joined the company as its commercial director for the Americas. In this newly established position, Fenley is charged with accelerating Flowics' expansion in North America while consolidating its presence across the Latin American market.

German prime TV news channel, WELT, is now broadcasting from the new Axel Springer Building in downtown Berlin. Built from the ground up, the broadcast studio was constructed with innovative workflows, flexibility, and IP production at the forefront, making a communications system based aroundClear-Com®’s Eclipse®HX Digital Matrix, FreeSpeak II®Digital Wireless Intercom, andV-Series Iris™ Panelsthe clear choice for this state-of -the-art facility. Clear-Com’s Germany-based partner, MCI, designed and supplied the communications solutionas part of the elaborate new studio design.

Actus Digital, the premiere quality monitoring/alerting, compliance logging, content repurposing, and AI-based workflow solution company, today announced that Keith DesRosiers has joined the company as vice president of solutions engineering. DesRosiers' expertise with Actus Digital's core competencies, integrated AI, cloud/hybrid architectures, and linear broadcast MAM workflows will help customers appreciate the affordable options Actus offers for solving complex media-related technical challenges and improving efficiency with greater consistency and quality.

Cobalt® Digital has announced plans to fill the IBC void with live-streamed demos of solutions that were to be highlighted at IBC before the in-person show was cancelled. The award-winning designer and manufacturer of edge devices for live video production and master control, and a founding partner in the openGear® initiative, is live-streaming demos of its new Indigo 2110-DC-01, an integrated ST 2110 option, and of RIST Multi-Link in seamless switching mode using RIST and SMPTE ST 2022. Virtual visitors can view both demos now.

DHD.audio has issued advance information on impending additions to its range of studio equipment, including next-generation processing cores, expanded firmware features and a new space-efficient compact control console. DHD's new DX2 is a fully featured desktop audio mixing system designed for use wherever space is at a premium. Its user interface will be familiar to all DHD operators interface and is simplified to focus on the facilities needed in a professional podcast studio, newsroom desk or video-edit booth. The DX2 offers the same assistive mixing functions as other DHD consoles, such as automix and auto level gain. A 3.5 mm jack on the back doubles as an input and output, allowing a smartphone to be connected quickly and easily for live telephone interviews. The DX2 works with all current second-generation DHD cores running version 10 firmware. It also connects easily with the new XC3 and XD3 cores.

For several years, Clear-Com's FreeSpeak™ digital wireless product family has been one of the most widely used wireless intercom systems in Germany, a trend that is continuing with the newest addition to the family, the FreeSpeak Edge® Base Station. Clear-Com’s German Partner, Audio-Technica, has provided FreeSpeak Edge Base Stations to numerous customers since its release earlier this year—rental companies, live events companies and video production companies—and it has been extremely well-received by the marketplace.