As the European festival scene kicked back into action following the upheaval and restrictions of the pandemic, Ayrton teamed up with some established Swiss rental companies to support festivals across the country and showcase some of Ayrton’s latest groundbreaking fixtures. Stagelight AG Showtechnik supplied kit to the largest hip-hop festival in Europe at Frauenfeld, the Gurten Open Air festival in Bern and Schaffhausen’s Stars in Town across July and August.
 

Founded in 2019, Singapore-based VStream Media has provided remote live production services since before they became an industry standard in their market. The company offers technical AV planning and workflow design, along with on-site training and systems integration, to ensure live event streams align with each customer’s unique vision. As demand for remote productions increased, VStream Media added the AJA Ki Pro GO multi-channel H.264 recorder to its workflow. The device has enabled its team to achieve redundant, multi-channel recording and simplify its content delivery path.

grandMA3 control systems were the lighting control of choice for leading Qatar technical production company Qvision to run lighting and SFX for the infotainment elements in all eight stadiums utilised throughout the 2022 FIFA World Cup QatarTM.
 

The term ‘bon vivant’ describes someone who has cultivated, refined and luxurious tastes; a name truly befitting a 164ft superyacht. The Codecasa-crafted Bon Vivant embodies excellence; comfortably accommodating up to twelve guests across its six cabins, with a tasteful Nordic-inspired interior. To round off the on-board experience, Finnish integrator 4Business Oy was brought in to install a comprehensive AV system, containing best-in-class technology - hence 4Business’s decision to deploy Genelec loudspeakers, an audio brand that is synonymous with prestige and reliability.
 

Grass Valley, leading innovator of solutions for live productions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Banks as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), of Marek Kielczewski as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and of Jim Kirkland as Senior Vice President Global Delivery and Support. These appointments reinforce Grass Valley’s accelerated transformation of the business and its long-term vision to accompany media and entertainment organizations in their digital transformation.
 

DirectOut introduces HCONTROL.8, an eight-channel remote controller for their PRODIGY Series. Combined with PRODIGY.MP and globcon, the device turns DirectOut's multifunction processor into a (mobile) mixing console. This solution enables a free and flexible mapping of audio channels and functions, such as FlexChannels, Matrix Mixers, and Snapshots distributed over 12 layers.
 

DirectOut adds a new module to the PRODIGY Series: the MADI2.SFP.IO. The new module comes with the housing and form factor of the PRODIGY Audio Network modules and hosts two SFP cages that can be equipped with Optical or Coaxial MADI SFP transceivers.

Comprimato, the specialist in high performance software encoding and transcoding, will show the latest version of its Live Transcoder software at NAB 2023 (meeting room W2378, Las Vegas Convention Center, 16 – 19 April). Already widely used for JPEG2000 contribution circuits, Live Transcoder also supports NDI, and now Comprimato has added JPEG-XS TR-07, making it the most powerful and flexible solution for high performance connectivity.
 

Ateme, a global leader in video compression, delivery, and streaming solutions with innovation at its core, today announced that its 5G media streaming solution is now integrated into Amazon Web Services’ AWS Wavelength* 5G Mobile-Access Edge Computing (MEC)** infrastructure. The integration was successfully tested in a Wavelength zone within a tier-one operator’s network.

5G Connectivity Enables Live Remote Production with Up to 90 Percent Cost Reduction, Due to Less Staffing and Travel Requirements
 

Ayrton is very happy to announce the appointment of BT.innotec as its new, exclusive distributor for Germany with effect from 1st March 2023.
 

Tampa’s first streaming network capable of reaching more than 1 million viewers offers a socially responsible approach to media and community engagement – and will serve as a blueprint for RHStv network launches in other US cities
 

Claro, the biggest mobile operator in Brazil and Latin America, Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader in broadcast transmitter and media technologies, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., the driving force behind the development, launch and expansion of 5G, joined forces at Open Rio 2023 to showcase the potential of 5G Broadcast/Multicast to drive new business models and transform the way content is delivered.

G&D is presenting their diverse portfolio of KVM solutions for the Broadcast Industry at NAB show in Las Vegas, April 16 – 19, 2023 at booth N1967 and will be offering their KVM expertise to consult customer and partner on individual projects.