Helping customers reliably bridge the gap between legacy analog video signals and today's digital, software-based systems, Magewell has introduced the Pro Capture Hexa CVBS interface card. The new model brings the feature-richness and comprehensive operating system support of the popular Pro Capture family to the analog domain, capturing six channels of CVBS video and six unbalanced stereo audio pairs over a PCI Express 2.0 x1 host interface.

Hot on the heels of its award-winning NAB Show exhibit, Magewell is coming to InfoComm 2018 with its broadest and deepest product range yet. The centerpiece of the company's InfoComm demonstrations will be the AV-industry debut of the new Ultra Stream HDMI standalone streaming encoder, which makes live streaming remarkably simple even for non-professional users. Magewell will highlight the versatile encoder alongside powerful new and established video interface devices in booth C3468 at the show.

SMPTE®, the organization whose standards work has supported a century of advances in entertainment technology and whose membership spans the globe, has extended the SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks standards suite with the publication of SMPTE ST 2110-40. This new document maps ancillary data packets (as defined in SMPTE ST 291-1) into Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets that are transported via User Data Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP) and enables those packets to be moved synchronously with associated video and audio essence streams.

Magewell's debut of its flexible Ultra Stream HDMI standalone streaming encoder at the 2018 NAB Show garnered immediate acclaim, as the company received three significant industry accolades for the intuitive new device. Magewell was honored with a Video Innovation Award (VIA) from the British Columbia Professional Videographers Association (BCPVA) for the second consecutive year, earned a Best of Show Award from NewBay Media's Video Edge, and was named one of the "Top 5 Products for Churches from NAB 2018" by Church Production Magazine.

At NAB 2018, Sony is announcing its continuous enhancement of Optical Disc Archive System with strong support from partner companies. Mitsubishi Chemical Media Co., Ltd. (MCM) has just signed a License Agreement this month with Sony to produce Optical Disc Archive cartridges. In addition, Qualstar Corporation (Qualstar) also entered into a Product Development Agreement for Enterprise Class Optical Disc Library with Sony in November 2017.

Sony is expanding its XDCAM line of professional camcorders with its new flagship handheld, the PXW-Z280. The new model boasts three 1/2-type Exmor R CMOS sensors to deliver a high sensitivity of F12 (59.94p), a long zoom ratio and a deep depth of field, making them ideal for the modern newsroom.

Expanding beyond its highly-acclaimed strengths in video capture and playout, Magewell will take the wraps off the company's first standalone, hardware-based streaming encoder in booth SU6324 at the 2018 NAB Show. Making live streaming production remarkably simple even for non-professional users, the new Ultra Stream HDMI enables customers to record or stream high-quality video from a variety of sources with one click using on-device buttons or an intuitive, accompanying smartphone app.

Continuing to help content producers take advantage of the latest advances in video technologies, Magewell today announced the addition of High Dynamic Range (HDR) support to select HDMI models in its flagship Pro Capture family of PCI Express capture cards. The company will highlight its new HDR capabilities at the 2018 NAB Show, April 9-12 in Las Vegas, where Magewell will exhibit in booth SU6324.

Building on the momentum from the company's highly-successful ISE presence in Europe earlier this month, Magewell will bring its growing range of high-performance video interface solutions to the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas in April. Exhibiting in booth SU6324, the award-winning developer will demonstrate how its feature-rich solutions reliably and cost-effectively help end-users, systems integrators and OEM product designers incorporate professional video and audio signals into today's software-based media workflows.

At ISE 2018, Sony is demonstrating Sonic Surf VR, its unique suite of audio technology combined with newly designed multi-channel speakers and specially developed software that enables creators to simulate popping, moving, and partitioning sounds in one space using the intuitive software application. The result is an interactive space where sounds appear to move around by themselves.

Nanjing, China: Stretch Internet is a full-service streaming platform provider that takes pride in the "freakishly good support" they deliver to their customers. Needing flexible, easy-to-use interface devices to reliably connect their clients' video sources to their streaming systems, Stretch found the USB Capture family from Magewell to deliver these benefits and more at cost-effective pricing.

Sony’s much-anticipated VENICE, its next-generation CineAlta motion picture camera, begins shipping to customers in February.

As previously announced, version 1.0 features in VENICE will include support for Full-Frame 24x36mm recording. Now, continuing its approach of incorporating customer feedback into the camera’s development, Sony is announcing several new capabilities including a “Dual Base ISO” mode. With 15+ stops of exposure latitude, VENICE will support an additional High Base ISO of 2500 utilising the sensor’s unique physical attributes. This takes advantage of Sony's unique sensor for superb low light performance with exceptional dynamic range - from 6 stops over to 9 stops under 18% middle gray.

Vatican Media and Sony Professional Solutions Europe once again come together to continue their joint effort to study and evaluate future technology possibilities for capture and archive. For the first time on December 24th 2017, at 9.30pm in Rome, during the Christmas Eve Mass, presided by Pope Francis from St Peters Basilica, a trial capture in 8K will take place.