Sony’s newest hard disk drives expand its growing line of portable storage choices, delivering faster speeds, greater connectivity, increased reliability and enhanced durability. The new 1TB and 2TB HDDs are designed for any professional use requiring memory card backup and ingest in the field or office, including education, corporate, government, broadcast and production applications.

Back in 2016, Lithuania’s National Opera technical management decided to carry out a complex and ambitious technical renovation of the installations. AEQ CONEXIA intercom system was selected to implement the main internal intercom system of the building and KROMA BY AEQ monitors were chosen to be part of the new central control room design.

Panasonic has previewed the AU-EVA1, at Cine Gear Expo 2017 in Los Angeles, USA, a new 5.7K cinema camera positioned between the Panasonic Lumix GH5 4K mirrorless camera and the VariCam LT 4K cinema camera. Compact and lightweight, the AU-EVA1 is tailor-made for handheld shooting, but also well suited for documentaries, commercials, and music videos.

Phonak’s ultra-discreet in-ear monitors helped the makers of multi-Oscar-winning La La Land weave its stunning soundtrack deep into the film, according to its sound mixer Steve A. Morrow. Morrow, along with colleagues Andy Nelson and Ai-Ling Lee, picked up nominations for the Oscar, Bafta, Cinema Audio Society and Satellite awards for sound mixing in La La Land.

This year, at Cine Gear Expo, Sony announced plans for its next-generation CineAlta digital motion picture camera system. This latest addition to the CineAlta family is being developed through careful research and close collaboration with creative professionals including Directors, Cinematographers and Digital Imaging Technicians. The next-generation CineAlta, from Sony, will be a 36x24mm full frame camera, aspect ratio-agnostic, designed in collaboration with industry professionals.

The XT4K, EVS’ first dedicated UHD-4K live production server, will be added to ES Broadcast Hire’s already-extensive UHD hire fleet and joins the company’s other EVS solutions, which include XHub3 network hubs and XFile3 file transfer and archiving solution alongside multiple EVS XT3 live production servers. Some of ES Broadcast Hire’s servers are configured in ChannelMAX, which lets users easily expand the channel density of their XT3s when needed.

Djundi Karjadi, owner of Interindo Multimedia PT, is the Technical Director for Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival, an annual event featuring dozens of the world’s top jazz artists and a lot of local talent. He recently reported on making use of the 3Play’s ability to simultaneously record all four inputs as received, while producing and broadcasting a live event.

Sony Professional Services has announced that it is delivering a 4K Outside Broadcast (OB) Van for media centre HDResources (HDR). Sony offered the customer a one-stop shop for the strategic project, working together with external System Integrators to provide a full solution and ensure total confidence and peace of mind for HDR.

Leader is adding another tool to the utility belt of its LV5490 4K/HD/SD waveform monitor, announcing the LV5490SER10 software module, a direct-digital 4K noise measurement processor.

Mexican broadcaster Televisa Networks, a dedicated Snell Advanced Media customer for over 20 years, has purchased SAM’s ICE Channel-in-a-Box solution along with Morpheus automation, a Sirius 850 router, SAM’s Rollmap infrastructure management system and IQ Modular infrastructure to add 37 channels of programming to its already robust lineup.