At the NAB Show 2018 Glensound BEATRICE R8 won two Best of Show Awards by ProSoundNews and TVTechnology. BEATRICE R8 is a 1RU rackmount 8-channel intercom system with Dante/AES67 network interface.

NEP UK has announced its two newest OB vehicles have been built to be compliant with SMPTE 2110 standard. Both of the vehicles, named Venus and Ceres, have been built with Grass Valley (formerly SAM) IQ UCP 25GbE Gateway cards, which provide two-way links between the the IP-based equipment and the existing baseband technology that is still needed to accommodate clients using SDI feeds. The trucks can also offer dual level UHD and HDI-SDI simultaneously.

Bluebell Opticom Ltd has been awarded an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for its SDI-over-fibre technology, at the 69th annual ceremony. The 69th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony took place in Las Vegas during the 2018 NAB Show in April, where Bluebell managing director Paul Felix McCann accepted the award.

For broadcasters, video content creators, and production companies alike, there's a big change coming. High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) represent the next step of being “real” in the mind of the viewer with lighting that looks more natural, colors that are more saturated with vivid depth and realism.

ChyronHego announced a partnership with leading game developer Epic Games to integrate the Unreal Engine with ChyronHego’s family of augmented reality (AR) graphics and virtual set solutions. With the integration, news broadcasters and other customers of ChyronHego’s Neon and Plutonium software will be able to leverage Unreal’s industry-leading rendering and real-time special effects capabilities to add powerful new photorealistic and hyper-realistic elements to their on-air virtual sets.

Digital Studio speaks to TVU Networks CEO Paul Shen about their NAB 2018 experience.

France Televisions is continuing to further its two-year upgrade of its digital studios and OB Vans with the new installation of Panasonic UHD cameras. The French broadcaster will have more than 100 Panasonic AK-UC3000 studio cameras when the project is complete.

SMPTE has presented its new SMPTE ST 2110-40 document that extends the SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks standards suite. The new document maps ancillary data packets (as defined in SMPTE ST 291-1) into Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets that are transported via User Data Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP), and enables those packets to be moved synchronously with associated video and audio essence streams.

AJA Video Systems announced v2.1 firmware for its standalone HELO H.264 streaming, recording and encoding device. The free update enables further customization of live streaming and recording workflows with HELO, and includes new features driven by customer feedback.

Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you can’t help but have heard about HDR (High Dynamic Range) TV. There’s been no end of announcements from manufacturers about how they are (or will be) supporting this phenomenal new technology.