TAG Video Systems, a leader in integrated software-based IP Probing, Monitoring and Multiviewer solutions, has announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Select Technology Partner status. Companies who reach AWS Select Technology Partner status have met strict technical and business criteria. The announcement was made by Kevin Joyce, TAG’s Zer0 Friction Officer, who emphasized that the relationship will help customers cut a clear and simplified path toward an IP-based workflow in the cloud. When coupled with TAG's Zer0 Friction flexible, on demand OPEX operating model it removes barriers to deploy broadcast applications in the cloud.

Leading French broadcaster Metropole Television SA (commonly known as the M6 Group) has futureproofed its new Master Control Room near Paris by placing state of the art Evertz IP technology at the heart of its operation. The switch from SDI to IP (ST 2110) will allow M6 to easily incorporate new HD services, new delivery platforms and new video formats such as Ultra HD 4K and 8K.

The M-CLEANIT is Crystal Vision's new profanity delay system which is designed to prevent the broadcast of unwanted or offensive video or audio material. Equally suited to IP and SDI environments, the M-CLEANIT's flexibility allows it to be fully customised for any workflow. With intuitive control from a smart button box and separate reaction controls to event and restore, the M-CLEANIT offers the biggest choice of ways to deal with video and audio profanities to keep broadcast content protected – including clean switching to two different video sources or a web page, blurring the video, showing black or blue or colour bars, muting individual audio channels and switching to another audio source. To give the operator time to react, the M-CLEANIT allows an IP or SDI live content stream to be delayed by up to 600 frames, which is 24 seconds in 1080i50, 20 seconds in 1080i59.94, 12 seconds in 720p50/1080p50 and ten seconds in 1080p59.94. The M-CLEANIT is a software app that runs on the MARBLE-V1 media processor hardware, a card which features a powerful CPU/GPU processor and both SDI and 10GbE IP network interface connections and which is housed in the Vision frame.

Mongolian telecommunication service provider Skytel Group is expanding its operations with additional investment in solutions from Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software. Based in Ulaanbaatar, the group provides a wide range of capabilities including telecom service and mobile and fixed broadband data connectivity.

Ikegami Electronics (Europe) has chosen Leader's LV5600 broadcast-quality waveform monitor for integration into the technical facilities at its headquarters in Neuss. The new instrument is equipped with a 25G-SDI interface and will used be both for routine test and measurement and to demonstrate Ikegami's latest UHD cameras as well as the company's established range of HD-SDR and HD-HDR models.

Magewell is proud to announce that the company's 4K Pro Convert NDI® encoders have been chosen by online video professionals as winners of a 2020 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Award. The low-latency converters, which enable users to easily and reliably bring traditional HDMI or SDI video signals into IP-based media workflows, were honored in the 'Hardware Input Devices for Live Production' category.

Budapest-based telecommunications service-provider Antenna Hungária has successfully launched the world’s most advanced digital terrestrial television service. Completed in partnership with UK industry pioneer Dr Arjang Zadeh and the Azdio mediaClass product division, the new service has been introduced across Hungary.

Leader Electronics will exhibit a wide range of test and measurement equipment and services at Inter BEE 2020. Normally held at the Makuhari Messe convention center near Tokyo, the show will this year be online at www.inter-bee/ja and www.inter-bee.com/en from Wednesday November 18th through Friday February 26th. The first three days will be live.

The forced cancellation of live sports and other events in 2020 has led to a new reality for broadcasters as they attempt to deliver the best programming for viewers and remain competitive in a rapidly changing market. Production engineers now find themselves under additional pressure to adapt their workflows and processes and rethink the way they deliver live events. To better understand these new evolutions, EVS has surveyed customers across North America and Europe and has identified several key trends and challenges that are emerging for 2021.

CTV Outside Broadcast's OB 12 mobile production truck hit the road recently for coverage of the PGA European Tour following an upgrade to fully modular SMPTE 2110 IP-based operation. The new infrastructure is based on an SDNsquare GRID software-defined network which allows IP complexity to be controlled via intuitive graphic tools. Leader LV7600 and LV7300 rasterising test instruments, supplied by Leader channel partner Thameside.tv, are used through the OB 12 production areas to achieve accurate matching of incoming feeds. They also allow operators to ensure that the full available dynamic range is maintained from source right through to output.

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that video presentations from the virtual IP Oktoberfest 2020 event are now available for complimentary on-demand viewing.

WHERE: Video presentations from the virtual IP Oktoberfest 2020 event are now available at www.ipoktoberfest.com.

Kiloview, one of the most influential and fast-growing companies in the video streaming industry today announced a new partnership with DigiBox in the UK and Ireland.

With more than 10 years experience in the streaming media industry, Kiloview offer a comprehensive range of solutions including NDI encoding, decoding and conversion, low bitrate encoding, multi-format conversion and streaming media service management.

Tv2000, the popular Italian television broadcaster that carries Roman Catholic themed programming, is building the foundations for an IP future with key infrastructure platforms from Imagine Communications. Located close to Vatican City in Rome, Tv2000’s studio and transmission center is migrating toward IP connectivity in a project led by Sony and systems integrator Allyn.

Up, Up and Away. Dream Chip’s ATOM Cameras Take Viewers on David Blaine’s Death-Defying Balloon Stunt with Him

Soaring 24,900 feet above the Arizona Desert, AVBB provides cameras that capture every breathtaking, suspense-filled moment for record-breaking live YouTube audience

One of the oldest show business adages is “never work with kids or animals.” Daniel Farmer would certainly disagree with the last part of that saying. As co-owner and DP of KatFarm Productions, Farmer has combined his cinematography skills and love of cats to handle the technical production for the last seven Kitten Bowls, alongside longtime show production company 3 Ball Productions, based in Los Angeles. The annual feline football game/pet adoption broadcast event is a viewer favorite during Super Bowl weekends, so not even COVID could cancel this year’s Bowl.