Sony has announced the acquisition of virtualised media production solutions company Nevion. Sony said the acquisition will further enhance its portfolio, providing end-to-end IP and Cloud-based production solutions for broadcasting and other applications. It also intends to deliver more integrated solutions.

AJA Video Systems announced its first partnership with Audinate, developers of Dante IP-based audio networking, to launch the first 12G-SDI embedded audio to Dante audio bridge. Targeted at live event and Pro AV workflows, the new OG-DANTE-12GAM is an openGear, Dante audio embedder and disembedder, with dual 12G-SDI ports, 64 channels of audio and DashBoard control software integration.

Canon introduced a new broadcast zoom lens: the Canon CJ20ex5B. This 5.0- 100mm F/1.8-2.95 glass features a B4 lens mount, a built-in 2x extender, and it supports 4K resolution. The Canon CJ20ex5B is the brand’s latest addition to its remote control lenses lineup, called BCTV lenses. These high-quality 4K zoom lenses are made for broadcast cameras with a B4 lens mount and usually “small” 2/3-inch sensors.

AJA Video Systems unveiled BRIDGE LIVE, a turnkey 1RU solution that makes it easy to move UltraHD or multi-channel HD video between uncompressed baseband SDI to/from a wide range of streaming and contribution codecs (H.265, H.264, MPEG-2 and JPEG 2000). BRIDGE LIVE supports a flexible array of containers and protocols, including SRT, RTMP/S, RTP, UDP and MPEG-TS, and extends to Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) ladder profiles and hand off for OTT packaging.

Panasonic has announced the availability of 'KAIROS', its next-generation IT/IP live video production platform. KAIROS significantly improves the quality and productivity of live video production and video streaming services for broadcasters and event producers of professional sports games, musical concerts and other events.

ChyronHego is rolling out the latest version of its Prime graphics platform, Prime 3.7. The primary focus of this iteration of the platform, according to ChyronHego, is to meet the expectations of operators in live playout environments.

Autoscript, the world’s leading teleprompting company, today announced the WC-IP wireless teleprompting scroll control — a significant new upgrade of the company’s first-generation wireless scroller. With powerful features for reliability and ease of operation, the WC-IP is designed to empower on-air talent in a live news broadcast to scroll a prompting script themselves from anywhere in the studio.

Apantac, an internationally recognized manufacturer of multiviewers, video walls, extension and signal processing solutions has launched two UHD splitters for the popular openGear platform.

AJA has announced that KONA and Io customers can now easily access the new HLG HDR features in the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro, enabling them to edit and deliver HDR content. KONA and Io customers using AJA KONA 5, KONA 4, KONA IP, Io 4K Plus, Io 4K or Io IP with the AJA Control Panel interface and AJA Control Room software, can simply open the AJA Control Panel, click the HDR tab and turn on HLG to ensure a seamless monitoring experience when editing and coloring HDR content.

Dutch football league Eredivisie has expanded its partnership with ChyronHego for the new season, and will employing the company’s TRACAB computer vision cameras, which use advanced AI and machine learning techniques to capture every movement on the field of play.