Black Box, an industry-leading provider of IT connectivity solutions, today announced that its award-winning Emerald Unified KVM platform now supports Lawo's Virtual Studio Manager (VSM) IP broadcast control and monitoring system. The many high-profile broadcast and cable companies in the U.S. that already use Lawo's VSM control environment to manage their editing suites, master control suites and mobile production studios can now also use Lawo VSM to configure and control their Emerald KVM workflows.

Black Box, a global solutions integrator, today unveiled the Digital Workplace, a service focused on unified communications and collaboration (UCC) in today's increasingly digital and virtual workplace environments. By adding a new strategy — managed UCC as a service in the cloud — to its existing on-premises UCC offering, Black Box addresses companies' evolving requirements for business continuity and the expanding need to support an increasingly remote, multigenerational and geographically dispersed workforce.

The first major awards show in the US to be broadcast since the pandemic was held Sunday, August 30, when the socially distant MTV Video Music Awards were telecast from New York City. XR Studios selected the disguise xR workflow, powered by the latest disguise gx 2c media server, as the show’s central technology hub.

On its IBC Showcase exhibitor page, Black Box will highlight a robust array of KVM switching, extension, control and visualization solutions that interoperate smoothly to enable greater workflow optimization and management, provide support for more advanced formats, and ensure exceptional security for on-premises and remote work scenarios. Demos will address the industry's need for convenient and intuitive real-time access to multiple computers from multiple locations, whether across rooms, floors, buildings, sites or cities.

UK Loudspeaker manufacturer PMC has made it possible for the forthcoming Record Store Day release of the self-titled album “Elton John” (AKA The Black Album), to include a never before heard demo version of the track ‘Border Song’, providing a rare opportunity for fans to hear this original piano only demo.

Black Box, a global information technology solutions provider, will be hosting a 45-minute live webinar, "How to Build a Modern Control Room," at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Aug. 6. During the free event, experts from Black Box will describe how to create a modern control room that can meet current and future requirements for monitoring vital information, controlling critical functions and reacting quickly to events. The presentation also will review real-world deployments across various applications. Click here to register now.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide Emmy® award winning video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, has provided San Diego TV station KFMB-TV, also known as CBS 8, with over 60 Dejero LivePlus mobile apps to support the broadcaster’s emergency news coverage strategy. The LivePlus app, which is downloadable to smartphones and tablets, has allowed KFMB-TV to deliver incredible live footage from the recent Black Lives Matter rallies, inside of San Diego’s recent wildfires, and to respond with agility to the broadcasting challenges of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

After a wait of more than 20 years, Italian musician and producer Gabriele Ferrini has finally achieved his dream of having a 64 channel Neve console as the centrepiece of his own studio.

Ferrini, who owns LG Studio in Modena, Italy, upgraded his Neve Genesys Black G32 console to a G64 by adding a 16 channel extension, supplied by AMS Neve’s exclusive local dealer Funky Junk Italy. The studio’s transformation took place just before the Covid-19 lockdown and since then Ferrini has also added a GenesysControl plugin, which is providing total integration between his Neve analogue hardware and his DAWs.

AVer Europe, a leading manufacturer of video conferencing solutions, is enabling small businesses to survive and thrive during lockdown. Surrey-based personal training company Marek’s Fitness is utilising the premium quality and wide angle capability of AVer Europe’s CAM340+ camera to provide training and group classes, which has enabled the company to maintain and grow its client base internationally.

Marek’s Fitness made all personal and group training classes virtual a few days before lockdown to ensure the health and wellbeing of clients. It quickly became apparent that a laptop camera or a typical USB web camera was inadequate, both for sound and vision.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide Emmy® award winning video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, has joined a consortium of technology providers delivering a range of broadcast technology to media partners and Dejero customers, to facilitate the coverage of NASA and SpaceX’s historic May 27th launch of the first US astronauts from the United States since 2011.

Dejero’s technology will enable the worldwide distribution of feeds from multiple pool cameras positioned to cover the launch to the International Space Station. The request to support the broadcast came from a group of news organizations looking for a solution to provide dynamic launch coverage while following social distance guidelines at the NASA press site.