Panasonic wants it to be known that bigger isn’t always better with its three latest cameras—the HC-X1500, HCX2000 and AG-CX10—that were announced at CES 2020. Billed as the smallest and lightest 4K 60p professional camcorders by Panasonic, the new models are meant to provide a high standard of on-site mobility as well as high-quality recording capability.

ITV News has invested in 180 Sony PXW-Z280 4K professional handheld camcorders and 180 URX-P03D UWP-D wireless audio kits and Sony has announced it has completed its full product roll out across UK regional news teams. The new product line-up provides news gathering teams with greater operational flexibility and 4K production capability.

ChyronHego announced it has begun shipping version 3.5 of its Prime Graphics platform with features to make it easier to add creative graphics into news and sports broadcasts, in-stadium productions and government and corporate events.

XenData, the global provider of data storage solutions, has launched the compact X1 Archive Appliance. This connects to a network and allows file-based applications to seamlessly archive to LTO external drives, Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) drives or cloud object storage. The appliance runs Windows 10 Pro and is powered by XenData Archive Series and FS Mirror software.

Catalonia's public broadcaster Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (Corporacio Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals or CCMA) has selected Leader's LV7300 rasterizer as the master reference instrument as part of an upgrade to HD-HDR at its Audiovisual Production Centre in Barcelona. The CCMA's primary channel is TV3 Catalonia which is transmitted to viewers in Catalonia, Andorra and the Balearic Islands.

Sony has announced that its Simple Live Streaming service, a new proposition for users to streamline the process of acquiring live content, will be available from today, 12 December. The additional workflow flexibility for its palm-sized 4K HDR professional camcorders, the HXR-NX80 and PXW-Z90, can be accessed via a free firmware upgrade to enable content creators to shoot wherever and however they want.

The Deutsche Football League has tested what it describes as a “world first” live football match broadcast in a mobile-first 9:16 aspect ratio, allowing fans to watch on a vertical mobile phone screen. The Bundesliga match between VfL Wolfsburg and SV Werder Bremen was produced in a 9:16 format in addition to the usual broadcast format. The DFL said it is responding to changing media usage behaviour and the increasing consumption of videos on mobile devices.

Production sound mixer Phillip Palmer used Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless to record almost all of the dialogue and many incidental and ambient sounds for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which recently premiered globally on Netflix.

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE chose TVU Networks’ equipment to get up close on the action at this year’s Rally of Morocco, which took place from 3-9 October.

Sky News Australia has fitted out its six remote studios throughout the country with new solutions from Vinten and Autoscript. The 24/7 multi-channel network installed state-of-the-art robotic camera support systems from Vinten and Intelligent Prompting solutions from Autoscript to reduce operational costs through centralised, IP-based control of remote broadcasts.