Travelxp, one of the world’s leading travel channel brands based in Mumbai, India, has implemented Cinegy Air PRO, a highly optimized playout automation solution, to launch a new English language channel.

Sold and installed by Cinegy’s regional partner, New Delhi-based Setron India, Cinegy Air PRO is a software-based system for HD and UHD 4K playout automation that uses standard IT server hardware and certified SDI video cards.

Cinegy Managing Director Daniella Weigner said, “Travelxp is a leader in technical advances, offering the best to its viewers in its latest venture. The advantage of Cinegy Air PRO is that it can easily run multiple HD and/or UHD 4K channels, which is precisely what they wanted. What’s more, multiple instances of Cinegy Air PRO can run on a single machine. Playout channels can also be configured to stream programs live with no need for additional hardware or software.”

Setron India Director Arjun Dhawan said, “Cinegy software is stable and easy to use, offering a simplified workflow and more modern technology than the existing system Travelxp had been using. What’s more, the use of Cinegy delivered uptime statistics that delighted the operations staff.”

Paris, 27th October 2020 — Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, announced that it’s expanding its relationship with South Korean English-language TV network Arirang TV, aimed at international audiences, to broadcast in HD across Western Europe on satellite Astra 1L at 19.2°E, beginning this month.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Oct. 20, 2020 — SDVI, the industry's leading supplier of cloud-native media supply chain solutions, today announced that Andy Brinck has joined the company as vice president of sales operations and alliances. In this new role at SDVI, Brinck will focus on optimizing the efficiency of the sales organization and on expanding and strengthening relationships with media supply chain and cloud partners for the

SDVI, the industry's leading supplier of cloud-native media supply chain solutions, today announced that Andy Brinck has joined the company as vice president of sales operations and alliances. In this new role at SDVI, Brinck will focus on optimizing the efficiency of the sales organization and on expanding and strengthening relationships with media supply chain and cloud partners for the SDVI Rally cloud-native media supply chain platform.

Actus Digital, a leading provider of broadcast compliance and monitoring solutions, today announced that it has appointed Ken Dillard as vice president of sales and marketing for North America. Adding Dillard, an experienced sales leader, to the Actus Digital U.S. office strengthens the company's ability to meet the needs and challenges of its rapidly growing U.S. customer base. He will play a critical role in securing new strategic partnerships, maintaining customer relationships, and ultimately expanding the company's sales growth in North America.

The Future Group, creators of live photo-realistic virtual production system Pixotope®, today announced it has introduced version 1.4 of the software. This includes full support for Unreal Engine version 4.25, as well as other improvements around connectivity and workflows.

Imagine Communications, which helps broadcasters, content owners, MVPDs and vMVPDs make and monetize TV, today announced that Discovery Sweden and Finland have transitioned to the latest cloud-based release of Landmark™ Sales operated by Imagine’s Managed Service. Discovery will benefit from reduced infrastructure costs, increased performance and improved management of linear airtime sales across a diverse advertising ecosystem. Imagine’s turnkey, cloud-based advertising management solution enables Discovery’s ad operations team to focus on core business priorities and maximize sales without the burden of managing underlying technical complexity.

Apantac is the first openGear partner to introduce HDMI and HDMI 2.0 products in the openGear platform. The OG-HDM2.0-1x4 and OG-HDM2.0-1x8 allows high quality HDMI 2.0 signals to be transmitted or distributed to four or eight displays – all without any signal degradation. It supports up to 4K / UHD 24/25/30/50/60Hz and HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2/HDCP 1.4.

GB Labs, innovators of powerful and intelligent storage solutions for the media and entertainment industries, today announced that Side Street Post and VFX, Vancouver, supported by GDS Communications, has chosen GB Labs’ SPACE SSD NAS shared storage system to drive Side Street’s DaVinci Resolve Studio systems.

Magewell has introduced a trio of new models in its Pro Convert family of low-latency video-over-IP encoders and decoders. The Pro Convert 12G SDI Plus encoder converts 4K/60fps, 12G-SDI input signals into full-bandwidth NDI(r) streams, while the Pro Convert for NDI(r) to SDI and Pro Convert H.26x to SDI decoders transform NDI, H.264 or H.265 streams into high-quality SDI outputs for connection to monitors, projectors and legacy equipment.

Magewell today announced new updates for the company's Pro Convert for NDI(r) to HDMI and Pro Convert for NDI(r) to HDMI 4K standalone IP decoders that further expand the devices' support for Newtek's evolving NDI(r) media-over-IP technology. The free upgrades add compatibility with the high-efficiency, lower-bitrate NDI(r)|HX mode in NDI(r) 4, complementing the decoders' existing support for full-bandwidth NDI streams.