Sony has announced the newest addition to its PXW series of shoulder-mount camcorders. The PXW-X400 promises stronger network and wireless capabilities, improved weight balance, and XAVC 50p recording and pool feed functions. The PXW-X400 camcorder will be available in February 2016.

Lectrosonics is pleased to introduce the Venue 2 Digital Hybrid Wireless® modular receiver, a next-generation solution designed to address the challenges of increasingly congested RF environments. Venue 2 tunes across a wide 220 MHz range, houses up to six receiver modules, each covering 75 MHz, and employs new IQ™ dynamic tracking filters that offer exceptional rejection of out-of-band RF energy and enable very tight channel spacing.

Triofilm TV will be the first German customer to implement EVS’ XT3 live production server with its latest features, including 12 HD/SD live rec/play channels and 10GigE network capabilities. Triofilm TV will incorporate the industry-leading live production servers alongside EVS’ MultiReview tool into its fleet of outside broadcast trucks.

Telson, part of the Tres60 Grupo specialising in media capture, management and distribution services, has deployed Ateme’s TITAN stream processing solution to power its OTT multi-screen service for service providers in Spain. Their playout customers include: Turner, Disney Channel, NBC Universal and Viacom.

TVU Networks, the global technology leader in live IP video solutions, today announced that the NFL’s Carolina Panthers have partnered with TVU to deploy TVUPack wireless uplink backpack to provide HD video solutions for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based team. The Panthers deployed TVUPack to capture and transmit professional-quality video from post-game press conferences and interviews, as part their weekly Game Day wrap-up show. After careful evaluation of live mobile video solutions, the Panthers selected TVUPack because of the solution’s ease-of-use, low latency and picture quality.

Sony today confirmed that filmmaker Woody Allen has chosen Sony CineAlta for his first ever digital shoot. For this special project, Allen will be shooting with Sony’s CineAlta F65 camera and the film will be mastered in 4K. The F65 has long been the choice among filmmakers around the world, including critically acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who will be working with Allen on the currently untitled film.

Video delivery infrastructure provider Harmonic has announced that Encompass Digital Media is now utilizing its MediaGrid shared storage system for central storage with Encompass’ media capture, management and distribution services. The MediaGrid system will support an IP-based digital media workflow with its media-optimized file system driver and read/write performance.

One of the announcements that you might have missed from this year’s IBC trade show in Amsterdam is related to the professional RAID line of portable hard drives that Sony recently launched along with the flagship Sony PXW-FS5 and Sony A7S II cameras. Positioned as part of the company’s 4K production workflow, Sony unveiled the PSZ-RA4T and PSZ-RA6T units providing 4TB and 6TB of data storage capacity respectively.

Zylight will demonstrate a prototype of its new “silent” F8-300 LED Fresnel at Live Design International (LDI) 2015, which runs Oct. 23-24 in Las Vegas, Nev. Engineered specifically for quiet studios and venues, the F8-300 delivers the equivalent brightness of a 600-watt HMI Fresnel while using passive cooling instead of an internal fan.

Pixel Power, the innovative supplier of broadcast graphics and automation solutions, is focusing on the transition to IP at SMPTE 2015 (Hollywood, 26 – 29 October). StreamMaster is a radical new software playout platform, designed for the IP future while still supporting today’s SDI infrastructures.