PlayBox Technology UK, the leading channel in a box provider for media companies worldwide, has published the results of its original research into viewing habits. It found that streaming platforms are now the preferred platform for entertainment content, and that viewers are as comfortable with viewing on a television, a computer or a smart device like a phone or games console.

Neva SGR, Intesa Sanpaolo Group’s venture capital firm focused on the tech industry, is placing its bets on the growth of V-Nova, a high-growth company based in London but with Italian roots, operating in the compression of video and image data. Thanks to Neva First, the alternative investment fund managed by Neva SGR, V-Nova has completed its series C round, having raised a total of €33 million.

Mo-Sys™ Engineering, (www.mo-sys.com) recently launched its new Onset VP Services office based in Los Angeles to provide an out-sourced solution for production companies new to virtual production. This has enabled US creative and production specialists Papertown to quickly and accurately create an ambitious virtual production project featuring a passenger plane in a hangar.

PlayBox Technology, the leading channel in a box provider for media companies worldwide, has installed a Channel in a Box system for N4, a free-to-air channel in Iceland. The channel produces its own content, including some live magazine programmes, as part of its 24-hour service.

SEQUOIA, an R&D project partnership between iSIZE, the BBC R&D and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has been awarded £700k from Innovate UK following a competitive grant submission, and a rigorous review and award process (<5% acceptance rate). Innovate UK is part of UKRI, the national funding agency investing in science and industrial research in the UK.

An immense feat of strength and perseverance by Spanish sports figure, Miguel Ángel Roldán, “Mikel”, was recently live streamed from Spain’s most notorious summit, the Naranjo de Bulnes, using a Dejero EnGo mobile transmitter and Dejero Cloud Server.

Pebble, the leading automation, content management, and integrated channel specialist, is delighted to announce the key appointments of new staff members to join its growing worldwide team. Vinicius Val de Casas and Clément Rouot join as Solutions Architects in Brazil and France respectively, while in the UK David Young joins as Product Owner, Tariq Al-Radhi joins as Customer Fulfilment Engineer on a student placement, and Anisa Khan joins as Junior Technical Author.

Red Bee Media, a leading global media services company, has selected the PRISMON multiviewer system from Rohde & Schwarz. It will replace life-expired SDI systems in its playout facilities in the UK, with a highly flexible, distributed, IP-connected multiviewer network.

Red Bee is the trusted delivery partner to some of the world’s strongest broadcasters and media brands, providing a complete delivery outsourcing service for broadcast playout and online streaming. From its broadcast facilities in London and Salford, Red Bee provides playout and disaster recovery facilities for more than one hundred channels in a variety of management and monitoring configurations.

Channel One, Russia’s premier television broadcaster, has made the leap from HD-SDI technology to full IP after installing an Evertz Mediator playout and content distribution system at its Ostankino Technical Centre in Moscow.

The system, which incorporates the latest state of the art broadcast technology, is a powerful and highly integrated ecosystem that spans a large number of workflows. It is now being used to broadcast 12 channels of news, sports and entertainment to more than 250 million viewers worldwide.

ELEMENTS, provider of innovative, high-performance media storage and server systems for post-production and broadcast, has welcomed Heiko Schlüter to the team. He brings to the company extensive experience in delivering media systems, including specialist storage networks.

PlayBox TechnologyUK, the leading channel in a box provider for media companies worldwide, has implemented a system for ingest and delivery at UK agencyImagine Media Network, based in Manchester. Among its broad range of services, Imagine Media Network includes a multi-camera, Ultra HD-ready studio for its in-house productions and for use by clients, including live broadcasts.

Medialease who provide specialist asset finance for the media, broadcast, live events and AV industries are pleased to welcome to the team Paul Donkin and Lisa Loutfi.

Paul joins the team as Business Development Director. He has worked in asset finance, specifically funding technology assets for the last twenty years both in the UK and internationally. Paul has had great experience with ECS, Econocom and Lombard delivering funding solutions to a huge range of companies both locally and internationally.

Mo-Sys™ Engineering, (www.mo-sys.com), world leader in virtual production and image robotics, has supplied the brand-new Mo-Sys VP Pro XR extended reality server as well as StarTracker camera tracking to ARRI for its new studio in Uxbridge, west of London, making them the first user of this innovative technology.

PlayBox Technology UK, the leading channel in a box provider for media companies worldwide, is celebrating eight years of providing services to sports broadcasting and streaming. PlayBox has helped leading sports streaming services and top teams serve their fans with television services.

ACT Lighting (RapcoHorizon/ProCo Sound/RHC Holdings) is pleased to announce the launch of ACT Entertainment, a new entity formed by bringing together the brands of the ACT Lighting and RHC Holdings family of companies.