FUJIFILM Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima) has announced that it will release the “FUJINON XK6x20” (hereinafter “XK6x20”) as a new addition to the lineup of 4K-compatible digital cinema camera zoom lenses in late June. Equipped with a PL mount, the most common format for cinema cameras, the “XK6x20” is a standard zoom lens that delivers T3.5 brightness for the entire zoom range from 20mm to 120mm.

Harmonic announced the release of its next-generation media-storage platform, the Harmonic MediaGrid 4000 shared storage solution. The high-performance scale-out storage system increases storage density to 24 6-TB drives in a 4-RU chassis, and delivers the performance of a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) with the simplicity and scalability of Ethernet-based network-attached storage (NAS).

LYNX Technik AG, provider of modular interfaces for broadcast signal processing applications, announces the release of its new yellobrik SDI Frame Synchronizer for digital video & audio processing applications that require synchronization of a wide variety of SDI sources. This new yellobrik will demonstrated at NAB 2016.

Zylight, a leading manufacturer of innovative, premium LED lighting solutions, today announced its F8-200 LED Fresnel is now shipping. Brighter than a 400-watt HMI Fresnel and almost as bright as a 2,000-watt tungsten fixture, the new “Brighter Flat Fresnel” can be powered by AC or optional Zylight RAWPower dual battery module, which uses two off-the-shelf 14.4V standard Gold Mount or V-Mount batteries of 8 amps or more.

In addition to being in the forefront of HEVC research and leading industry committees and research groups, ATEME is committed to continuous investment in MPEG2 and H264 video quality enhancements. ATEME has been working with leading ATSC groups, cable operators and STB/decoder vendors to introduce a High-Efficiency MPEG2 (HE-MPEG2) codec.

Cinegy, which develops and produces software technology for digital video processing, asset management, video compression, and automation, has announced “Cinegy as a Service”, a hardware-free way of enabling users to deploy software-defined television on cloud-based virtual machines.

LYNX Technik AG, provider of modular interfaces for broadcast and professional AV signal processing applications, announces the launch of its three new MADI fiber optical to MADI coaxial converters & transceivers at NAB 2016.

Leader Instruments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leader Electronics Corporation, Yokohama, Japan, announces two new options for its LV7390 rasterizer. These comprise full 4K signal measurement capability plus a plug-in digital audio module providing up to 16 channels of de-embedded SDI audio which can be viewed on screen and output as discrete AES3 feeds. Both options will be introduced and demonstrated at the 2016 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 18-21.

Dalet Digital Media Systems, a leading provider of software-based solutions for media organizations, announced today that Win Sports, a leading Colombian sports channel, has selected the Dalet Galaxy Media Asset Management (MAM) platform to manage its entire program preparation, production and archive workflows. The new installation also includes the Dalet AmberFin high-quality media processing platform and Dalet Brio video servers to help migrate the company’s legacy content into the Dalet Galaxy media catalogue, providing an infrastructure that revitalizes control over the channel’s assets.

Sound Devices, LLC, announces firmware version 2.30 for its full line of rack-mount recording solutions, including the Video Devices PIX 270i, PIX 260i, and PIX 250i video recorders, and the Sound Devices 970 audio recorder. This update provides a number of important enhancements, including new copy functionality and grouped playback of non-native files.