Sony has announced the acquisition of virtualised media production solutions company Nevion. Sony said the acquisition will further enhance its portfolio, providing end-to-end IP and Cloud-based production solutions for broadcasting and other applications. It also intends to deliver more integrated solutions.

AJA Video Systems announced its first partnership with Audinate, developers of Dante IP-based audio networking, to launch the first 12G-SDI embedded audio to Dante audio bridge. Targeted at live event and Pro AV workflows, the new OG-DANTE-12GAM is an openGear, Dante audio embedder and disembedder, with dual 12G-SDI ports, 64 channels of audio and DashBoard control software integration.

Canon introduced a new broadcast zoom lens: the Canon CJ20ex5B. This 5.0- 100mm F/1.8-2.95 glass features a B4 lens mount, a built-in 2x extender, and it supports 4K resolution. The Canon CJ20ex5B is the brand’s latest addition to its remote control lenses lineup, called BCTV lenses. These high-quality 4K zoom lenses are made for broadcast cameras with a B4 lens mount and usually “small” 2/3-inch sensors.

AJA Video Systems unveiled BRIDGE LIVE, a turnkey 1RU solution that makes it easy to move UltraHD or multi-channel HD video between uncompressed baseband SDI to/from a wide range of streaming and contribution codecs (H.265, H.264, MPEG-2 and JPEG 2000). BRIDGE LIVE supports a flexible array of containers and protocols, including SRT, RTMP/S, RTP, UDP and MPEG-TS, and extends to Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) ladder profiles and hand off for OTT packaging.

Panasonic has announced the availability of 'KAIROS', its next-generation IT/IP live video production platform. KAIROS significantly improves the quality and productivity of live video production and video streaming services for broadcasters and event producers of professional sports games, musical concerts and other events.