Tech Roundup

A company known for its file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies is unveiling a new software update for its PRISM series of hybrid SDI and IP waveform monitors.

Broadcast and production camera maker Hitachi Kokusai last week at the 2019 NAB Show New York took a big step in making full-HD, 1080p60 video acquisition easier to come by, with the unveiling of the CU-HD550 camera control unit (CCU) and CA-HF550 camera adapter.

The multimedia company superserving African American consumers has reached a deal with Alabama-based Bohn Broadcast Enterprises to deploy its wireless services and hardware to strategic locations with the publicly traded company -- including transmitter sites and remote broadcast deployments.

ENCO is heading to NAB Show New York with a new capability in its enCaption4 automated captioning system. At the conference, which starts tomorrow (10/16), the company will unveil a new video delay feature that enables lip-sync grade caption synchronization even when transcribing live feeds. 

In a strategic and focused effort to support broadcast audio sales in the U.S., NTP Technology is teaming up with an industry veteran who joins the company as Sales Director for North America. He will work in close co-operation with NTP’s current distribution.

End-to-end media solutions provider Alticast and next-gen broadcast TV standard tech company Triveni Digital have teamed up to showcase how their paired solutions are transforming the NextGen TV user experience.

Tuesday morning saw the formal launch of Eurofins’ new CyberSecurity Framework: Media Edition. It provides media companies across the globe a suite of customizable services designed to increase cybersecurity robustness of production and broadcast suppliers.

The Advanced Television Systems Committee will highlight the 61 markets where NEXTGEN TV is going “on the air” in 2019-20, a move expected to reach more than 70% of the viewing public by the end of next year, across next week's NAB Show New York conference.

It's a historic first in the voluntary rollout of next-generation broadcast TV signals: With cooperation from Comark Digital Services (CDS) division, ARK Multicasting Inc. successfully completed the first broadcast of both ATSC 1.0 and NEXTGEN TV from the same equipment stack.

Dielectric has released free Excel-based planning tools—known as Proposal Generators—that give broadcasters and their RF consultants the ability to generate their own technical proposals. The initial rollout will focus on Powerlite low-power antenna systems.

Riedel is known as a designer, manufacturer, and distributor of real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks for broadcast, pro audio, live-event sports, theater and security applications. It will have an expo booth at NAB Show New York, where it is putting a spotlight on four specific products.

Among the many companies exhibiting at NAB Show New York, set for October 16-17, is Telestream. The company known for its file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies will showcase its latest range of products and services touching all aspects of the digital media life cycle.

CP Communications, known for products of use in producing live events, is adding MultiDyne’s 22-foot mobile van — introduced in 2018 for mobile marketing — to its growing fleet of production vehicles.

PILOT, NAB's technology innovation initiative, has revealed winners of the latest round of its program that provides grants to National Association of Broadcasters members to establish paid engineering or media-technology internships at their radio and television stations.

Here's a scoop on some news regarding an upcoming product announcement at NAB Show New York: Xytech will now start shipping the latest updates to its MediaPulse 2019 facilities management software for broadcasters and post-production companies.