Mo-Sys Engineering, a world leader in precision camera tracking solutions for virtual studios and augmented reality, took a central role in the Covid-safe production of a live online entertainment awards show. Normally held in a stadium venue, this year production company and media technologists Bild Studios used virtual reality with the intent of keeping the same scope and excitement as any physical show in the past.

Producer and mix engineer Ben Baptie has put a Neve® Genesys console at the heart of Studio 5, his new project studio in North London which officially opened in September after months of intense designing and planning.

Budapest-based telecommunications service-provider Antenna Hungária has successfully launched the world’s most advanced digital terrestrial television service. Completed in partnership with UK industry pioneer Dr Arjang Zadeh and the Azdio mediaClass product division, the new service has been introduced across Hungary.

Multimedia systems integrator, equipment specialist and service provider CJP Broadcast announces a new addition to its engineering staff with the appointment of Joseph Franklin. A BSc (1st class Hons) graduate in television production technology, he will be active with CJP colleagues across a variety of projects.

PlayBox Neo (www.playboxneo.com) announces the completion of an AirBox Neo-20 Channel-in-a-Box TV playout system for PSI Broadcasting, one of Thailand's leading suppliers of broadcast playout facilities. It will be assigned to tvN Thai which PSI transmits on behalf of Korean partner CJ ENM.

YoloLiv, the creators behind YoloBox Live Stream Studio today announced a new partnership with DigiBox in the UK and Ireland.

YoloBox is an all in one encoder, switcher, monitor and recorder, allowing users to live stream full HD multi camera content from anywhere, to anywhere. YoloBox revolutionises the way users acquire, produce and share live streaming content, offering simultaneous cross platform delivery to major social channels including Facebook Live, YouTube and Twitch in addition to RTMP over conventional internet links or 4G.

Nagasoft (Nanjing Nagasoft Corporation) the leading live broadcasting hardware and software company based in mainland China, announced today, the appointment of industry veteran Polar Graphics as their exclusive distributor for the NSCaster X1 and X1A range of products.

Today, 10 founding companies and 50 forming companies have announced their collaboration to create the entertainment industry’s first association focused specifically on entertainment globalization. Globalization is defined as Dubbing, Subtitling, and Audio Description services which allow content to be consumed in languages other than the original version. The founding companies of the association are Audiomaster Candiani, Deluxe, Hiventy, Iyuno Media Group, Keywords Studios, Plint, SDI Media, Visual Data Media Services, VSI, ZOO Digital. The additional 50 companies represent high caliber service providers from all around the world. The Entertainment Globalization Association (EGA) has been formed to create a closer connection to the creative community to better facilitate the “retelling” of their stories for global audiences. The association is primarily focused on creating educational resources, localization standards and generating consumer impact research of localization. Chris Fetner has been named as the managing director of the association. Before this role, Fetner led Netflix’s content localization vendor strategy for nearly a decade and is widely regarded as an industry transformer among entertainment localization companies.

E-Studio, one of Finland’s leading recording facilities, has embraced the world renowned sound of Neve® by replacing the old desk in its main control room with a large Genesys Black G80 console.

Located in the beautiful rural surroundings of Sipoo, just 30 minutes’ drive from the centre of Helsinki, E-Studio often attracts large recording sessions and therefore needed a console with plenty of inputs and a high channel count. According to Jyri Riikonen, senior sound engineer and studio manager at E-Studio, the Genesys Black G80 is the ideal choice because it offers a huge 80 inputs at mixdown and 40 input channels, each with 1073® preamps for recording very large sessions.

Black Box, a global information technology solutions provider, today introduced the KVD200-2H 4K HDMI dual-head desktop KVM switch, a competitively priced KVM switch designed for professional users who need to control two computers, such as a desktop and a laptop computer, with a single keyboard and mouse.