LONDON – 15 April 2021 – AVer Europe, leading developer and manufacturer of education technology and visual collaboration solutions, has announced that its product content is now available to channel partners via the Icecat platform.

Through its partnership with Icecat, a leading publisher and syndicator of product information worldwide, retailers and partners of AVer Europe are now able to freely access product datasheets, marketing materials and rich media assets. The content is easy to access, standardised and available in a range of languages via the Icecat catalogue.

Influential industry figure joins company to help accelerate global growth. 

OWNZONES™ Entertainment Technologies, the leading cloud-based video supply chain company, is delighted to announce the appointment of Rick Capstraw in the key position of Chief Revenue Officer.

As the CRO, Capstraw will take an important role in leading the global sales organization of the company and accelerating the department’s contribution to OWNZONES’ already-impressive worldwide growth. With a proven track record of leadership and success, Capstraw has built a career in delivering technology solutions in global markets that help to transform the way we use and consume media in our lives and brings an impressive amount of experience to his new position with the company.

Creative Solutions, a Division of The Vitec Group plc (LSE: VTC), is pleased to announce the acquisition of Lightstream, a US-based tech company that builds a cloud-native live video platform, broadcast software, and creator tools with specialization in the video game live streaming industry.

RGBlink, well known for innovative high-performance video processing solutions today announced a new partnership with DigiBox in the UK and Ireland.

RGBlink has more than 10 years’ experience of manufacturing professional video processing, scaling, presentation and seamless switching solutions. Dedicated to developing and building quality video products for professional av applications, delivering advanced video solutions for a broad range of visual markets, RGBlink’s comprehensive range of devices suit applications ranging from entertainment and broadcast to control rooms, conference spaces and digital signage.

Frame.io, the world’s leading video review and approval platform, today released Frame.io Camera to Cloud (C2C), a secure cloud-based workflow that lets customers instantly upload and stream images from on-set cameras to creative post-production teams anywhere in the world.

Camera to Cloud is now shipping and included with all paid Frame.io plans at no additional cost.

TAG Video Systems marks another unique milestone by adding visualization and monitoring support for Sony’s Hawk-Eye, a high-performance camera used in sports applications with atypical output. TAG, the world leader in 100% SW, 100% IP, 100% COTS/Cloud, Probing, Monitoring and Multiviewing solutions, for all four of the major broadcast applications (Live Production, Playout, Delivery and OTT), is the first to offer support for Hawk-Eye on an IP, all software Multiviewer.

SDVI, the leading supplier of cloud-native media supply chain solutions, today announced that its Rally Media Supply Chain Platform integrates and manages Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media Intelligence (MI) solutions. AWS MI solutions allow organizations to analyze their media content, discover new insights and opportunities, and increase the lifetime value of the content. These solutions make it easy to add machine learning (ML) to media content workflows and enable customers to deploy smarter and more efficient supply chains. As part of the AWS MI solutions launch today, SDVI is highlighting the use of AWS ML services to optimize media supply chains with enhanced content search and discovery, captioning and localization, compliance and brand safety, and content monetization, all managed and tracked by the Rally platform.

DP Jonathan Furmanski was lucky. They wrapped season 4 of Search Party just 2 weeks before the big lockdown. For those who haven’t seen the immensely popular HBO Max series, it centers around the disappearance of Chantal which leads four of her college-acquaintance 20-somethings to get entangled in the mystery of how she went missing—all while the riveting dark comedy thriller reveals the true natures, motivations and relationships of the quirky characters.

Shotoku, the well-established leader in manual and robotic camera support and virtual reality tracking, has introduced unique new functionality – Orbit - to SmartPed, its fully robotic XY pedestal. SmartPed, which addresses the creative and commercial demands of on-air environments with a cost-efficient and high-performance solution, can now travel in clockwise and counterclockwise movements around circular sets, a growing design element in today’s broadcast studios.

Marshall Electronics continues to develop new cameras designed to improve IP workflows. Marshall released two levels of 4K PTZ cameras within the last year with 30x optical zoom and professional grade sensors: one with up to 4K30 (CV630) resolution and one with up to 4K60 (CV730) resolution. Marshall also recently offered two levels of fixed position cameras with 30x optical zoom and professional grade sensors: one with up to HD60 (CV355-30X) resolution and one with up to UHD60 (CV420-30X).  In looking forward to 2021, Marshall is scheduled to launch a High-Bandwidth NDI® PTZ camera (CV730 BHN) late Q3 with up to 4K60 resolution and 30x optical zoom packed with High-Bandwidth NDI®, NDI®|HX and simultaneous 12GSDI/HDMI2.0 outputs. Also planned for later this year, Marshall has its CV620-BI with 20x optical zoom 3GSDI, HDMI and IP/HEVC/SRT, and the CV620-BN with 20x optical zoom 3GSDI, HDMI and NDI®|HX on its product roadmap.