IBC has announced its strategic plan for 2021, focusing on the return of a live event in Amsterdam this year. The show revealed plans to deliver a hybrid (physical and digital) event from 10th – 13th September 2021 and unveiled a fall-back option in early December 2021.

LYNX Technik, provider of modular signal processing interfaces, announces that its greenMachine HDR Evie+ is a 2020 Product Innovation Award Winner. The Product Innovation Awards from TV Technology recognize excellence in manufacturing of products serving the TV/pro video industry. Each year the Product Innovation Award winners are chosen by a panel of working professional engineers and managers in TV, pro video and radio.

Norwegian broadcaster TV 2 has selected PHABRIX’s QxL rasteriser to provide 25G UHD IP ST 2110 video and audio generation, analysis and monitoring at its headquarters in Bergen.

Actus Digital is getting into the weather business, announcing that it has provided The Weather Channel with its broadcast monitoring platform to ensure the TV networks video and audio quality comply with industry requirements for both linear and OTT channels.

Panasonic Corporation announces the release of a software version upgrade (V1.1) of its “KAIROS” IT/IP platform for live video production scheduled in March this year. The previous version of KAIROS can be upgraded to the new V1.1 version for free.

Leader Electronics announces an enhancement to the audio measurement toolset provided in its ZEN series LV5600 waveform monitoring and LV7600 rasterizer when fitted with the LV5600-SER03/LV7600-SER03 hardware option. The additional features form part of the new ZEN Version 5.3 software which is available as a free download for all ZEN series products.

Bluebell Opticom strengthens portfolio with a trio of new products. The launch of the BC780, BC785T and BC785R optical conversion products were directly attributed to requirements from customers who are moving to remote production in these challenging COVID times where they needed to have Ethernet Control, RS232/422/485, Tally and genlock between cameras and the OB truck.

ChyronHego announced three new corporate brands—Chyron, Hego and Tracab—which the company says it expects to cultivate greater product development, tech support and customer success in each respective market. The new brands will continue to operate under the current ChyronHego senior leadership team.

NewTek, the leader in IP-based video technology and part of the Vizrt Group, announced the introduction of ProTek, an all-new tiered support program that allows customers to choose between 4 distinct levels of coverage, to include; Basic, Standard, High, and Ultra. Each tier incorporates support elements under Warranty, Software Maintenance, Technical Support, and Extended Services.

Panasonic’s Kairos next-generation IT/IP live production platform was recently installed at LiveX, a production and broadcast company, as an effort to automate its 4K broadcast streaming studio and expand the company’s remote production capabilities.