Imagine Communications, empowering the media and entertainment industry through transformative innovation, received NewBays Best of Show Award at IBC2017, presented at the annual conference and exhibition, for its Selenio¢ Network Processor. The SNP is an all-IP-capable processing solution optimised for handling uncompressed UHD signals based on the SMPTE ST 2110 specification for transporting media over IP networks. Designed to usher in a new era in live production, the SNP enables production companies to optimize both studio and mobile facilities to take full advantage of the performance, agility and efficiency benefits of IT-based infrastructures.

Astucemedia, leaders in bridging the gap between broadcast graphics, creative design and data integration, demonstrated its new Interactive and AR Football Module at IBC last week in Amsterdam as part of Vizrts Big AR Show.

In a new report, DPP AT HOME: Automation, the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) brings together the views of senior leaders from across the media supply chain on the need to collaborate on some of the basic automation functions enabled by machine learning. The report comes from the latest event in the DPP AT HOME series, which brought together 20 senior executives at IBC 2017 and was enabled by DPP Member Prime Focus Technologies.