Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader inpost-productionmedia technologies, has joined forces with ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of network, storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, to optimize the new generation ofATTO 360™ Tuning, Monitoring and Analytics Software, as well as ATTO ThunderLink® N3 3102andNS 3252 Thunderbolt™ adaptersfor use with R&S®SpycerNode. Now, macOS customers – in addition to Linux and Windows users – can more easily connect to the SpycerNode media storage solution, benefitting from a significant performance enhancement, without the need for additional PCI slots.

Tolka announces a major addition to its portfolio of media-related telecommunication products and services. TCAS for Widevine is a conditional access system designed to make secure pay-TV content channels easy to establish, easy to operate and highly affordable. It simplifies the entire licensing process and reduces service-providers' operating costs. 1080i HD and 4K-UHD TV resolutions are supported as well as both SDR and HDR.

The GREAT Britain and Northern Ireland pavilion is thrilled to return to Dubai for CABSAT, the Middle East’s ultimate event for the broadcast, satellite, media and entertainment industry. During the coronavirus pandemic, UK media technology companies have worked hard on digital platforms to promote their products and services. CABSAT 2021 is their first opportunity to be back face to face at an international event and showcase their latest innovations and exclusive products.

SDVI, the leading platform provider for cloud-native media supply chains, today announced a new Rally platform deployment partnership with TMT Insights, a professional services and software development company with strong expertise in digital supply chain implementation for Fortune 500 companies. The partnership leverages the implementation and professional services expertise of TMT Insights to accelerate integration and deployment of the SDVI Rally media supply chain platform and to assist customers in optimizing their implementation and management of the platform.

Triveni Digital today announced that it will host Triveni Digital LIVE Forum, an interactive, virtual event to unite broadcast engineers, station management, cable operators, and anyone interested in NextGen TV on Wednesday, Nov. 3. During the online event, attendees will learn directly from ATSC experts, interact with broadcast industry colleagues, and enhance their knowledge on solutions related to the ATSC 3.0 ecosystem.

PlayBox Neo will exhibit the latest additions to its range of broadcast playout and channel branding solutions at CABSAT 2021, Dubai World Trade Centre, October 26th - 28th. Highlights of the demonstrations on stand B2-20 will be Capture Suite, AirBox Neo-20 and Cloud2TV.

I sit down with Nick Robinson from E2-360 to discuss the state of remote productions, how he addressing it at E2-360, and the vast space of virtual and hybrid live Streaming + tech.

CGI, the leading newsroom system provider in Europe, is pleased to announce the key appointment of Johann Rückel to the role of Director of Business Development, in which he will be responsible for furthering the growth of OpenMedia’s market position within the Newsroom Solutions space. His role will also focus on developing and strengthening new client relationships internationally and expediting the global growth strategy working with the OpenMedia sales team.

Ghost VFX, a leading visual effects house and part of the Streamland Media community of post production businesses, announced Patrick Davenport has been appointed Ghost VFX president. Tom Kendall, previously serving as Ghost VFX president, has taken on the new role of head of Business Development, Sales and Marketing for the company. Rounding out the team, Paul Richards has joined Ghost as EVP of Technology and Crys Forsyth-Smith has been named EVP of Global Production. All four will be based at the company’s Burbank, Calif., location.

The SubtitleNEXT team reports success at APTRAD and Languages and the Media virtual conferences last month. 

Highlights include machine translation, automatic speech to text and text to speech technologies, and how these innovations affect content owners, media studios, language service providers and freelance subtitlers.

Functions and capabilities that media studios require such as workflow management solutions capable of incorporating automatic transcription and translation processing are already available in NEXT -TT and SubtitleNEXT. Both solutions received positve feedback at the shows, credited as extremely useful and affordable.

Live subtitles for events and meetings was a major topic. SubtitleNEXT is  a market leader in live subtitling, offering user-friendly tools, and provides advanced offline subtitle preparation capabilities in a single application.

In response to requests, a series of free tech Friday Workshops will be held, to demonstrate how to create subtitles from scratch. The first session is on 15th October. Join here https://join.skype.com/GJn8QL88GBhT

Mo-Sys Engineering, a world leader in precision camera tracking solutions for virtual studios and augmented reality, today announces that its StarTracker technology was front and centre of the innovative virtual studio production for BBC Sport’s coverage of the Tokyo Games. The entire virtual graphics production was implemented by MOOV, the UK based sports and events graphics company, with the project being shortlist as a finalist at the 2021 Broadcast Sports Awards in November. 

Media Links, manufacturer and pioneer in Media over IP transport technology, announces its debut of the MDP3020 MAX™ platform. Media Links will be showcasing this solution during the 2021 in-person event season including InterBEE on stand: 7516 and IBC 2021 on stand: 1.C33. With insatiable demand for live content, there is an increasing infrastructure need for portable, network protected, remotely configurable and cost-effective IP media gateways. The MDP3020 MAX™ meets this demand as a high-quality, standalone edge device with configuration support for JPEG-XS compression.

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media and content management, has announced it’s partnering with Gravity Media, the leading global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services to content owners, creators and distributors, to provide end-to-end production and connectivity services to customers at next year’s major soccer event. 

Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, has introduced significant updates across its media logistics, AI-driven production and IP ingest and playout product line. Cloud-native platforms Dalet Flex, Dalet Media Cortex and Dalet Brio support the industry’s continued transition with flexible hybrid and cloud workflows offering media organizations the digital dexterity they require to power work-from-home scenarios. Robust APIs and Integration Panels simplify collaboration with creative tools like Adobe® Premiere® Pro and enterprise applications like Salesforce and Slack, enabling transformative media and business workflows for Dalet customers.

Interra Systems, a leading provider of content QC, monitoring, and analysis solutions to the digital media industry, today announced that ZOO Digital, a global provider of cloud software-based subtitling, dubbing, and media localization services to the TV and movie industry, has expanded its deployment of Interra Systems' BATON® automated QC solution. BATON enables ZOO Digital to perform comprehensive quality and compliance checks on VOD content, resulting in faster and more efficient delivery of globalized media content for its customers.