GB News, has chosen Quicklink Studio (ST55) for introducing high-quality remote guests into their news productions for national broadcast.

With a television audience of over three million viewers monthly and a further 415,000 weekly listeners on radio, remote opinions are a large part of the channel’s programming, GB News required a robust solution for introducing remote guests in high-quality with real-time latency into their around-the-clock schedule.

Sonnet Technologies today announced the SF3™ Series – AJA® PAK Media Pro Card Reader, the latest model in its family of professional media readers. The SF3 Series – AJA PAK Media Pro Card Reader features dual card slots and a dual-port 40Gbps Thunderbolt™ interface, and ingests files captured to AJA PAK Media SSD cards, which were developed for use in the latest AJA Ki Pro® Ultra 12G, as well as the Ki Pro Ultra and Ki Pro Ultra Plus 4K/UltraHD/2K/HD file-based recorders and players. The Sonnet card reader is compatible with all Thunderbolt 4 computers; all M1, M2, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra Mac® computers; and all Thunderbolt 3 Mac and Windows® computers.

GBLabs, innovators of powerful and intelligent storage solutions for the media and entertainment industries, has demonstrated comprehensively its technical credentials, and is now recognised as a Ross Video technology partner. The recognition came as part of a project to build a studio for Canvass Credit Union in Denver, Colorado. 

At IBC 2022, GBLabs’ focus is on re-connecting with customers and emphasising how it can help them with the key issues facing their organisations, such as security, and business and change management. Today, broadcasters and media companies are less concerned with the underlying technology and more focused on issues that impact future growth, such as creating more content in a smarter, more efficient way. At this year’s IBC, the company will show customers how they can more effectively manage resources across multiple locations – on-premise, in the cloud and hybrid workflows.

Close collaboration between Austrian solutions provider NativeWaves and DekTec, a supplier of PC add-on cards, has resulted in product improvements that are benefitting both companies.

NativeWaves spent more than a year searching for a replacement SDI capture card when the cards it was using failed to meet its high standards for audio quality. The search eventually led to Netherlands-based DekTec, who were able to adapt their line of existing SDI cards to suit NativeWaves’ requirements.

GBLabs, innovators of powerful and intelligent storage solutions for the media and entertainment industries, is showing its recent product launches for the first time in Europe at the Media Production & Technology Show. Leading the demonstrations will be HyperSpace Generation 3 and the latest version of FastNAS, alongside the rest of its range of content storage and management systems for on-premise, cloud and hybrid workflows.

Sonnet Technologies today announced the Allegro™ Pro USB-C® 8-Port PCIe® Card, the latest offering in the company's popular line of USB PCIe adapter cards. The new Allegro card features eight external USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) Type-C® ports and fits neatly inside a single-width card space. The Sonnet card is compatible with Mac®, Windows®, and Linux® computers with an available x16 PCIe slot, and Mac and Windows computers with Thunderbolt™ ports when installed in a Thunderbolt to PCIe card expansion system with an available x16 PCIe slot.

GB Labs, innovators of powerful and intelligent storage solutions, has provided a powerful new NAS infrastructure, installed at the British Army HQ in Andover by GB Labs distributor AGX Holdings Ltd. (www.agxuk.com). The FastNAS installation supplements an existing GB Labs storage network at the site, extending the capacity, agility and flexibility.

GBLabs will give visitors to NAB Show 2022 a first look at HyperSpace Generation 3, the latest iteration of its rack-based SSD accelerator. Now delivering double the performance and an exponential increase in flexibility compared to the previous version, HyperSpace gives users access to the fastest data rates on the market when combined with GB Labs SPACE and SPACE+. 

GBLabs will launch HyperSpace Generation 3 at NAB Show 2022, bringing significant enhancements to performance, functionality and environmental impact. The latest version of FastNAS (Generation 2), along with the new Unify Hub data management system, will make their NAB debut and visitors to the show will also have access to a range of GB Labs’ other intelligent storage technology such as Cloak DR, Mosaic and the latest CORE.4. GB Labs will highlight its ability to support on-premise, cloud-based and hybrid workflows.