Equipped with a 4/3” CMOS sensor and real-time HDR with an impressive ISO limit upto 409600, the NightHawk camera series can capture shadows and highlights in spectacular detail. Because of its digital noise reduction feature, users can obtain remarkable image quality even under low light.

The HS-1300 is a cost effective, all in one 6 channel hand-carry mobile studio with built-in streaming and recording capabilities. It has all the same great features of the HS-1200, with the addition of a built-in H.264 encoder for streaming. Therefore, the workflow is simplified because it is no longer necessary to add an external encoder to do streaming. Simply connect the HS-1300 to a network and begin streaming your program to your preferred CDN. In addition to the streaming capability, the HS-1300 can also record the program output to an SD card.

Gravity Media Group, the global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services, has appointed Masahiko (Masa) Kata as its director of business development for the APAC region. He will be based in Tokyo, Japan. This is a new role that has been created to help bring Gravity Media’s extensive range of services and innovative approach to live and as live production to the Asia-Pacific market. Masa joins from Hitachi Kokusai Electronic, where he has worked since 1981 and was most recently corporate officer and general manager of its Video and Communications Systems Business Unit, where responsibilities included overseeing its global sales strategy.

Stage Tec, the Berlin-based manufacturer of professional audio equipment, presented at NAB and at prolight+sound the latest board for the NEXUS network – the NEXUS Fiber and IP-Interface (XFIP). In terms of IP connections, the XFIP is the equivalent of the RIF67 (Router Interface AES67). The board is used in the NEXUS Base Devices and is result of the collaboration between DirectOut and Stage Tec.

Paul Aladin – yes – that really is his name – and even spelt with one ‘d’ it still resonates nicely in the professional lighting industry - runs rental and production company Tylösand Sound based in Halmstad, Sweden, which has recently invested in some very special magic lanterns …  Robe’s new MegaPointe!
 

SRG SSR has selected Media Backbone Hive to modernise its news and sports production operation across all its broadcasting centers in Switzerland. The Swiss broadcaster has chosen the award-winning network production platform to deliver enhanced capabilities to share content seamlessly between regions, and meet the needs of audiences in today’s fast paced digital landscape.

Pioneer in Media over IP transport technology, Media Links, announces that Tokai Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. has chosen its IP Media Switching Solution for IP infrastructure upgrades to the Tokai TV Network Operations Center (NOC).

In the field of outdoor event and broadcast production, adverse climate and other environmental conditions can impact negatively on the performance of equipment and the ultimate quality of production work.

Sound Devices announces an exciting new collaboration with Sennheiser to offer the full spatial audio experience for virtual reality (VR) video within Sennheiser’s AMBEO for VR partnership program. With the Sound Devices MixPre-6 & MixPre-10T portable recorders and Sennheiser’s AMBEO VR Mic, VR professionals can record and monitor premium 360° spatial audio for VR video.

Prolight + Sound 2018 saw DiGiCo showcasing the working debut of its new Quantum 7 processing, as well as the new 32bit DAC, the 4REA4 digital audio networking system, L-ISA Source Control, and significant new features for DiGiCo SD consoles.
 

The Saturday-evening concert by Dionne Warwick and the New Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt marked the end of a week of music and events. 1,803 companies from 56 countries1 launched their latest products during the five days of Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound.

ChyronHego announced a partnership with leading game developer Epic Games to integrate the Unreal Engine with ChyronHego’s family of augmented reality (AR) graphics and virtual set solutions. With the integration, news broadcasters and other customers of ChyronHego’s Neon and Plutonium software will be able to leverage Unreal’s industry-leading rendering and real-time special effects capabilities to add powerful new photorealistic and hyper-realistic elements to their on-air virtual sets.

With the festival season fast approaching, Optocore chose the recent Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show to launch its new Festival Box, which celebrated its world premiere with a well-attended press launch.

Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation (ATBC) has broadcast live TV and radio programming to the Kansai region since 1964. For production and post, the station uses a wide variety of AJA gear, including Io XT Thunderbolt™-equipped audio/video I/O boxes, KONA 4 desktop capture/playback cards, Io 4K Thunderbolt™ 2-equipped audio/video I/O solutions and several AJA Mini-Converters.

Lawo launched the world’s first infinitely expandable true IP multiviewer vm_dmv64-4 at NAB2018 Show. Complementing Lawo’s existing vm_mv16-4 and vm_mv24-4 multiviewer line-up, the new virtual module (VM) vm_dmv64-4 for Lawo’s V__matrix IP Routing, Processing & Multiviewing Platform breaks the mold of conventional multiviewers, providing unlimited inputs and heads, as well as full support of IP and SDI sources in 4K/UHD, 3G, HD and SD. It supports embedded and discrete audio and works with pixel perfect mosaics with ultra-low latency. Intuitive drag&drop mosaic configuration is easily done with Lawo‘s “theWALL”.