Dalet announced the latest release of Brio, its high-density I/O platform, with newly added support for SMPTE ST 2110 to help broadcasters and other media organizations transition from existing SDI workflows to their full IP-based equivalent.

AJA has announced that it is joining Panasonic’s Kairos Alliance Partners program as a verified hardware partner with the Kairos IP live production platform in an effort to establish Kairos as a new standard for live production

Sachtler has announced the launch of the aktiv fluid head, which it says allows camera operators to mount, level and lock the head in seconds and to switch quickly from tripod, slider or hand-held shots in an instant.

The Fxlion PL-SP40 is not a new product, but something I purchased recently that saved me hours, and that might be useful for you, too. It is a 4-channel battery charger compatible with Sony NP-F style batteries and older Panasonic D54/VBD cells. If you’re looking for a reliable and fast tool to speed up your workflow, let’s take a closer look at it!

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published V-Nova’s VC-6 video codec as the SMPTE ST-2117 standard. The codec leverages AI to offer contribution, production and workflow solutions for 4K and 8K

AJA’s KONA 5 I/O card has been available for two years, and is the most recent in a long line of PCI expansion cards offering professional video interfaces for a variety of applications. While the card isn’t new, capabilities continue to be added to it through various software developments and firmware releases. The most recent of which is Adobe’s support of the KONA 5 as one of the few ways to monitor HDR content in Premiere Pro, over either SDI or HDMI. With this update, many Premiere editors are going to have the opportunity to edit and view HDR content directly from their timelines on HDR displays for the first time. This will require an understanding on various new technologies and settings to get the best results for HDR workflows, which I intend to cover as thoroughly as possible here, as I work my way through covering the KONA card’s options and settings.

Cartoni is using its experience designing camera support systems to develop products specifically for use with PTZ cameras, which the company says are increasingly being used because of the remote and social distance production needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lectrosonics is pleased to announce the introduction of the DCR822 digital, dual-channel portable receiver. The new receiver is compatible with all the current Lectrosonics mono and stereo digital transmitters and is backward compatible with any of the Digital Hybrid Wireless® transmitters made in the past 18 years. The DCR822 provides two independent receiver channels at the highest level of RF and audio performance available with a versatile feature set in a compact design for field and location production.

Apantac has launched the second generation of its UE series of multiviewers enhanced cascading functions, which includes more compact (at almost half the depth) models that consume less power than before.

Lectrosonics is pleased to announce the introduction of the DCHR miniature stereo digital receiver. The DCHR is a miniature, portable digital receiver capable of stereo or mono operation from a single RF carrier with Lectrosonics digital transmitters including the DCHT, M2T, DBu, DHu, and DPR. The unit tunes from 470-614 MHz in the UHF band, covering 6 Lectrosonics blocks and matches the tuning ranges of the digital transmitters in the D Squared, DCH and M2 Duet lines.