Padcaster’s elegant Parrot teleprompter turns a standard smartphone into a fully functional, compact and affordable prompting system for nearly any DSLR, video camera, smartphone or iPad. Parrot allows the talent to speak naturally while looking into the lens and interacting directly with the audience.

The Photon Beard Highlight is staple product in many studios around the world, so it is always exciting to see a new development in the Highlight LED family. Let us introduce the Highlight 180XT and the 360XT. Acting as an extension of the classic highlight the XT allows you to light a subject perfectly from their first appearance on camera, not just when they reach their marker. The modular design also allows you unique control via DMX so you can light side by side subjects with different levels if required. As with all Highlight units you can add diffusion, barndoors and intensifiers or honeycomb if you need to.

SmallHD introduces a second version of its FOCUS OLED 5” 1080p Touchscreen Monitor, the FOCUS OLED SDI, featuring SDI input. Both the SDI and HDMI models of the camera-top monitor combine the color and contrast performance of OLED technology with the convenience of a touchscreen user interface, at a cost-effective price.

Virgin Media Television in Ireland has deployed Pixel Power StreamMaster BRAND, a powerful new branding and graphics playout platform following a requirement for a new graphics system that would deliver efficiencies across the design and transmission departments, automatically handle schedule changes with the right graphics and branding, and offer the ability to easily override the system with a simple user interface in a ‘breaking news’ situation.

FilmLight is to demonstrate remarkably powerful new functionality for its colour grading and management platform Baselight at IBC2018 (Amsterdam, 14–18 September, stand 7.B26). The latest software will be shown on Baselight grading stations, and also implemented across FilmLight’s product range, which includes Prelight for on-set visualisation, the Daylight dailies system and the expanding Baselight Editions range for editing and VFX.

Lighting accessary-maker DoPchoice celebrates its 10thanniversary this autumn, just in time for the IBC and CINEC European conventions. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, DoPchoice offers light shaping gear for the world’s top LED light fixtures, featuring compact and lighter weight designs that are easier to use and fast to set-up, serving gaffers, cinematographers and rental houses, worldwide. DoPchoice innovations includes their take on softboxes--the Snapbag®, which instantly snaps up without a complicated speedring and breaks down into a small flat pouch just as fast. The elegantly stitched Snapgrid®, that maintains tight corners and affixes directly onto the front of a Snapbag, can be added on quickly. They also simplified soft box mounting with their family of Rabbit-Ears® lightweight folding frames.

We are proud and excited to launch our brand new web shop! The new site boasts a full stock of our entire product catalogue from the latest LEDs and lighting kits right through to control desks and stands. Our company ethos is always to make great lighting easy and accessible and hopefully this is another step toward that. With the ability to create your own account and see your order history, get product delivered worldwide or arrange collection from our UK factory it’s never been easier to get Photon Beard lights into your hands.

K-Tek introduces the first Stingray hat especially designed for sound recordists working outdoors. The new Stingray Sunhat not only provides heat and sun protection but is a perfect fit with over-the-ear headphones.