Sony’s 4K systems camera, the HDC-4300, is to be produced in Wales, the only country outside Japan to produce the camera. The camera will be manufactured at Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, South Wales from this month. The Pencoed factory has been producing high-end broadcast technology in South Wales since 1999, manufacturing cameras and camera systems for worldwide distribution and shipping more than 13,000 units every year.

When Sony launched the FS7 II they also launched a new lens to go along with it. The previous zoom lens that was bundled with the FS7 was the SELP28135G, a 28-135mm f4 zoom lens that would work with Super 35mm, APS-C and full frame cameras. While generally well received this lens is not without it’s problems. For a start it’s not really wide enough for use as a general purpose lens on an APS-C or Super 35mm sensor. The other problem is that the zoom is very slow. Even when set to manual zooming in and out takes a long time. You turn the zoom ring and then have to wait for the lens to catch up.

Timecode Systems' SyncBac PRO has been used on the current series of 'The Island With Bear Grylls', delivering cost savings in media management and post-production. The SyncBac PRO was used to timecode-sync all GoPro HERO4 cameras during filming.

Panasonic has announced a free firmware upgrade Ver. 7.0 for the VariCam 35 cinema camera and VariCam HS high-speed 1080P camera that includes additional ProRes codecs and HD-SDI Monitor output improvements.

ATEME announced that Proximus, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Belgium, is upgrading its ATEME-based video headend with TITAN full-software solution. ATEME is a vendor of pure-software encoding/transcoding and multiplexing solutions that masters its codec roadmap. The TITAN software family delivers the highest video quality at minimum bitrates for cable, DTT and DTH.

Cinegy announced the introduction and immediate availability of Cinescore, the first industry relevant benchmark for the meaningful measurement of video encoding performance for commonly used broadcast and professional production video formats.

At the annual ceremony of Academy Awards three winners: David Thomas, Lawrence Fisher and David Bundy received a prestigious Oscar for Technical Achievement, after advancing the state of wireless microphone technology in the design, development and engineering of the Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless System. Presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Technical Achievement Academy Awards recognize contributions of significant value to the process of making motion pictures.

Apantac, provider of cost-effective multiviewers, video walls, extenders, and signal processing solutions is launching a new 4K Multiviewer at ISE 2017. MiniDE-4-UHD is ideal for displaying up to 4 sources at a time among the 6 inputs on a single UHD monitor or projector.

Fox Sports has always emphasized providing a high-quality and immersive listening experience, and Super Bowl LI is no different. Senior Mixer/consultant Fred Aldous and his team are on hand to make sure fans at home have an audio experience that matches as closely as possible the audio experience in the stands.

A year after the announcement, Panasonic have released firmware version 5.0 for Varicam LT camera. Firmware version 5.0 adds 2K ProRes 4444 XQ format, as well as Variable Frame Rate (slow-motion) in ProRes 4444/4444 XQ. In addition you can now also shoot in-camera in the legendary Vittorio Storaro preferred “Univisium” 2.00:1 aspect ratio.