IBC today announces that in a world first, Glasgow-based outside broadcast specialist QTV deployed innovative ‘private 5G’ network technology to capture content used in the live international broadcast coverage of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s final departure from Scotland.

With virtual assets, nxtedition has solved a significant headache for the media industry by simplifying how different product APIs from different vendors can be deeply integrated into nxtedition. Successfully deploying other products to their full potential can be challenging for a traditional broadcaster. Typically, these integrations are highly technical API calls held together by infrastructure solutions – referred to as glue – which can be fragile and difficult to maintain.

PlayBox Technology UK celebrated the return of an in-person IBC with new products and a strong order book. IBC2022 saw more than 37,000 people from 170 countries get together in Amsterdam for the most important global broadcast and media event. The company took the opportunity to introduce new products and services, which reflect the rapidly changing media environment today.

PlayBox Neo confirmed its ongoing leadership in media channel branding and playout at IBC 2022 exhibition with new introductions centered on the unified PlayBox Neo Suite. "Operational efficiency and flexibility are more important than ever for broadcasters and playout service providers as they compete for audience attention across terrestrial, cable, satellite and IP networks," says Pavlin Rahnev, CEO of PlayBox Neo. "Designed to interface with PlayBox Neo Suite, Capture Suite gives ingest staff the resources they need to handle multiple incoming content feeds rapidly and without stress. Also forming part of PlayBox Neo Suite, Media Gateway, which we announced and demonstrated at the show, elevates playout routing and distribution to a new level of versatility and affordability. It allows the entire process of playout routing and decoding to be handled in software, eliminating the capital outlay, maintenance charges and power costs needed to operate hardware routers, codecs and related devices."

Zero Density, a world leader in real-time graphics technology, has received an IBC Best of Show Award in the category of “TV Tech” for its AI-powered tracking system, TRAXIS talentS. Built for virtual studios, live events and augmented reality productions, TRAXIS talentS is the industry’s first stereoscopic talent tracking system that makes wearables and markers obsolete. Whether it’s for a broadcast football match or Hollywood’s latest virtual production, on-set talent can always move freely, without anything getting in the way of creativity.

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that DIRECTV GO, a Vrio company, is streaming more than 100 linear channels with Harmonic's VOS®360 cloud SaaS platform. The Harmonic SaaS platform is deployed by leading providers in the media and entertainment industry for efficiently streaming linear channels and live sports events.

Ateliere Creative Technologies, a leading developer of media supply chain solutions, has taken home the Best of Show Award at IBC2022 for Ateliere Connect capabilities that enable content owners, broadcasters, sports organizations and studios to power media supply chain workflows in the cloud with unrivaled efficiency. The awards celebrate innovation and recognize standout technology like the proprietary Ateliere Deep Analysis/FrameDNA capabilities that solve key pain points around content localization and duplication that stresses content libraries and inflates cloud storage costs.

Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC), a Nikon company, announces the acquisition of Slidekamera to bring an even wider choice of motion and robotic solutions to the broadcast market.  The move cements a long established development partnership between the two companies, the first of which will be demonstrated at IBC 2022, stand 11.C30.

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its customer, Imperial War Museums (IWM), has won the 2022 IBC Innovation Award in ‘Content Distribution’ for a prodigious project working with Spectra Logic and technology partners on the design of a digital asset management and storage ecosystem with multi-site implementation across data centres in Cambridge and London. With the aim of excellence in digital preservation, this IWM project enables generations to explore more than one million items amassed since 1917 in IWM’s five branches. The 2022 IBC Innovation Awards celebrate the spirit of collaboration within the content and technology industry, recognising the best new ways to manage content and connect creators and consumers, or creators and their collaborators.

Marquis is introducing new software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery and licensing options for its popular Project Parking and Workspace Tools project management systems, enabling customers to access the software via a subscription. The new monthly model is ideally suited to post-production customers, allowing budgeting of the software per project as required as an operational spend, rather than as capital expenditure. At IBC 2022, Marquis is showcasing some of the software development services projects it has delivered over the past two years, using a mix of workflows and technologies to transform the cost of using cloud in post-production.

New at IBC this year will be the first two introductions in a new product category from FOR-A – the SOAR-A series. The name stands for Software Optimized Appliance Revolutionized by FOR-A and marks the company’s direction toward a software-based strategy for a variety of applications.

Evertz, a global leader in media and entertainment technology solutions, today announced that the company has completed the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Foundational Technical Review (FTR) for its evertz.io Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) solution for video services. As an AWS Partner Network (APN) member in Media & Entertainment, Evertz can accelerate end-customer engagements and further propagate adherence of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

As using COTS equipment to route IP media continues to gain momentum as the standard in the broadcast market, content owners at all levels are eager to adopt such systems to keep up with broadcast demands. As such, TSL launches X-Connect, an easy-to-use and cost-efficient IP routing software and hardware solution, at IBC 2022 (Stand 10.B41). X-Connect includes a control layer, a user interface and also a control processor to make IP routing more accessible to the industry as it transitions to an IP workflow. To showcase the technology, TSL will have the new X-Connect set-up with hardware devices from several leading industry manufacturers at its stand throughout the show.

At IBC (stand 8.B57) Calrec Audio will unveil a brand-new audio mixing system designed to keep pace with the changes broadcasters are experiencing in their production workflows. Designed to adapt to changing production needs, Calrec’s Argo is a new approach to audio mixing, with a flexible control philosophy that breaks the traditional geographic tie lines between processing and control.

Vislink (Nasdaq: VISL), a global technology leader in the capture, delivery and management of high quality, live video and associated data in the media & entertainment, law enforcement and defence markets, introduces its new Cliq OFDM Mobile Transmitter at IBC 2022 (Stand 1.A63).