ChyronHego today released an all-new version of CAMIO, its industry-leading graphic asset management server, with significant improvements including the HubDrive file distribution tool and LUCI5, an HTML5 update of the company's modular user interface for newsroom producers. With this release, CAMIO 4.2.2 brings powerful new capabilities and even greater product integration to the CAMIO Universe, ChyronHego's comprehensive, software-based newsroom production ecosystem.

Decentrix Inc. today announced the release of Mediabase Content(TM), the media industry's first media analytics toolset to provide a detailed title-level analysis of the organization's largest asset, its content. This new addition to the Decentrix BIAnalytix(TM) portfolio enables media organizations to model content acquisition costs, production investments, and revenue streams to produce a detailed return on investment (ROI) prospectus on both their current libraries and proposed purchases.

Cable operators today are challenged to keep pace with a variety of industry disruptors, such as the rise of multiscreen viewing, and growing consumer demand for higher-resolution channels and faster networks. Harmonic's software-based solutions, highlighted at ANGA COM 2017, address these transformations, enabling operators to migrate to high-speed gigabit networks to accommodate the launch of competitive triple-play offerings, and deliver pristine video quality on every screen, up to UHD-HDR, at the lowest possible bitrates. 

Utah Scientific today introduced its new 400 Series 3 hybrid digital router, a flexible platform designed to accommodate the next-generation SMPTE ST-2110 and SMPTE 2022-7/6/5 IP formats, along with 3G SDI, analog HD and SD, and audio formats including analog, digital AES3, MADI, TDM, and AES67 all in a common frame.

At the 2017 NAB Show, Square Box Systems will highlight several new capabilities for its industry-leading CatDV media asset management (MAM) system -- including Web 2.2 Advanced, an all-new version of the system's web-based user interface. The Web 2.2 Advanced interface extends access to several CatDV features that were previously only available on the desktop client, such as a "source and record" sequence editor, live logging of video assets, and comprehensive catalog-management tools.

The pay-TV industry is undergoing a radical transformation. As service providers look to meet the growing consumer demand for OTT multiscreen services, next-generation technologies such as the cloud, virtual reality (VR), and big data are opening up new monetization opportunities and setting a higher standard for immersive video experiences.

John Bell, a 20-year veteran of the media and entertainment industry, is the new general manager of Riedel Communications Australia. Bell, who has served as a non-executive director of the Australia division since 2015, will leverage his deep management experience in global organizations to expand Riedel Australia's market share and brand awareness. 

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers(R) (SMPTE(R)), the organization whose standards work has supported a century of technological advances in entertainment technology, is seeking proposals for technical papers for the SMPTE 2017 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE 2017), Oct. 23-26, 2017, in Hollywood, California. Proposed papers must be informational and address technical theory, research, innovations, applications, or practices specific to an evolving technology relevant to the media industry. Abstracts must be submitted online no later than May 15.

At the 2017 NAB Show, NUGEN Audio will demonstrate new downmixing technology for creating the best possible stereo mixes from original surround audio sources. The company will also showcase its industry-leading post-production and broadcast audio tools for loudness, upmixing, and batch processing, and a range of products for creative sound design, enhancement, and sound-stage correction.

Artel Video Systems, a world-class provider of innovative, real-time multimedia delivery solutions serving global markets, today announced the company's participation in the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS).