ES Broadcast's hire division has taken delivery of the UK’s first Sony HDC-F5500 rental units – and the camera’s impressive creative capabilities will be the main attraction at a technology and networking event in London next week. Sony HDC-F5500 adds artistic creativity to live productions

Interra Systems announced that the company has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) to build, market, and sell customer offerings.

Cobalt Iron Inc., a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise data protection, today announced that CIOReview has named Cobalt Iron to its list of the 10 Most Promising Backup Solution Providers for 2021. Inclusion in the list is based on the strength of Cobalt Iron's Compass® enterprise software-as-a-service backup platform.

Interra Systems, a leading provider of content QC, monitoring, and analysis solutions to the digital media industry, today announced that BATON Captions, its automated captioning solution, is now available to broadcasters and other media professionals as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on the company's Interra Cloud Services (ICS) platform. SaaS-based Captions brings simplicity and cost savings to the creation, management, and delivery of captions for traditional TV and video streaming.

Nevion, a Sony Group Company and award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that it is adding up/down/cross conversion (UDC) capabilities to its flagshipsoftware-defined media node, Virtuoso. The media function software provides low latency, native-IP, and high-quality video conversion for live broadcast and media production applications, including remote and distributed production.

Nevion, a Sony Group Company and award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, announced today that it is adding essential broadcast control functionality to its flagship VideoIPath media orchestration platform This integration will provide a consistent system for both broadcast control and network orchestration, supporting the complete production lifecycle (engineering, set-up, production, tear-down). It will also make it simpler and more cost-effective to deploy, roll-out and upgrade workflow control.

Pixellot, the world’s leading provider of AI-Automated™ sports video and analytics solutions, has  been shortlisted as a finalist in the AI and Machine Learning category at the prestigious SXSW Innovation Awards.

The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced further details for the much-anticipated 2022 HPA Tech Retreat Supersession, this year focusing on virtual production. The Supersession will take place in person on Tuesday, February 22 during the four-day Tech Retreat. Programmed this year by respected industry experts Kari Grubin and Erik Weaver, the Supersession boasts an impressive lineup of speakers, demonstrations, and case studies from leaders in the adaptation and evolution of virtual production and in camera VFX. The program presents an unusual opportunity to see what happens when the major technology innovators and manufacturers collaborate in real time. Speakers are still being added and further updates will be available at hpaonline.com. 

Digital Transitions, a leading global provider of high-resolution digitization solutions and services, today announced a partnership with The HistoryMakers, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution and the nation's largest African American video oral history archive, to scan the historical personal collections of many interviewed for the archive. Imaging experts from Digital Transitions' service division, Pixel Acuity, will use highly specialized equipment and AI-driven processes such as handwritten-text recognition, object classification, and notable individual recognition to optimize image quality and metadata capture for digital assets within each collection.

This fall, KVM manufacturer Guntermann & Drunck GmbH (G&D) will be presenting the best of the KVM world at InfoComm in Orlando, FL. Under the motto "feels right", the company will not only showcase many new products at booth 2761, but also a completely new look and a new communication concept.