Tech Roundup

Interactive Live Streaming (ILS) can be cost prohibitive to all but the largest streaming providers, so how can a broadcast media operation eager to monetize its streams do so without denting the bank account? A report released in conjunction with IBC 2024, held earlier this month in Amsterdam, offers some insights.

France-based "Audio game changer" Digigram has brought to market an optional MPEG-TS service for use in the company's IQOYA X/LINK and SERV/LINK audio gateway ranges. As Digigram sees it, the addition of MPEG-TS option offers a wide array of new decoding possibilities for audio pros. 

In what it calls "response to subscriber feedback," Integr8 USA is now offered for four formats, with CHR and Hot AC served with their own services.

Thomason Broadcast-owned GatesAir last week formally introduced a new high-efficiency, low-power offering for two product lines that "offer insights into the changing requirements for RF infrastructure." In particular, low-power radio and TV broadcasters are the focus of these new "solutions."

With the exponential growth of content volume and the proliferation of distribution platforms, media companies are under immense pressure to ensure that all content meets the highest quality standards. In response to these media quality challenges, Telestream is announcing the immediate availability of Qualify, a cloud-native quality control product on AWS Marketplace.

"The release of Viz Libero Free puts cutting-edge sports analysis technology, including AI capabilities, into the hands of any sports content creator that wants to learn and upskill; ensuring more operators can enhance their storytelling capabilities with detailed and engaging sports content," Vizrt says.

French audio specialist and equipment manufacturer Digigram has announced the release of a new Dante sound card as part of its ALP-X range. Available from Digigram’s network of distributors early October 2024, ALP-DANTE-LE is the eighth addition to the fast growing range of sound cards launched in 2022.

RTW, the Cologne, Germany-based AV company, has announced that its TouchControl 5 product will now include support for dialog-gated measurements, enabling compliance with dialog-based specifications, which are aligned with Netflix delivery standards.

Xperi Inc.-owned DTS has brought to market a new on-device tool that taps into the latest advancements in AI-based audio processing to improve dialogue intelligibility for television audio.

The IBC conference's 2024 event begins Friday and concludes Monday, and at the event ENCO will showcase how its automated video playout and live virtual production solutions offer an immediate return to air when master control and studio productions unexpectedly go dark.

REMI production allows broadcasters and other content creators to seamlessly capture live hi-res video at remote event locations for backhaul to centralized production and distribution facilities at very low latency, TNDV explains.

Formally introduced at the 2024 NAB Show, the MDoG series helps broadcasters and content creators efficiently manage uncompressed and compressed signals as they move between legacy systems and IP networks, with full redundancy to optimize performance.

Formally introduced at the 2024 NAB Show in April, IBC marks the EMEA debut of the 100Gb hardware device, which drives ST 2110 media processing, stream protection and bandwidth utilization in a powerful, compact form factor. 

Introducing the newest addition to Telestream's Vantage Lightspeed server portfolio. The VLS-300 is purpose-built to deliver unmatched performance for critical operations, offering the fastest end-to-end media processing and high-volume transcoding.

Ford is expected to increase the number of vehicles equipped with SiriusXM beginning with model year 2025 vehicles. This will make SiriusXM available for customers to access in nearly all Ford vehicles.