Leader Electronics announces the appointment of Terry Millard as UK-based European Business Development Manager. This new addition to the Leader team forms part of the company's ongoing support-development strategy.

AVC-Systems AG has invested in a Leader LV5600 SDI/IP multi-screen waveform monitor as the reference core of a new IP demonstration unit. Based at the company's headquarters in Einsiedeln canton Schwyz, in the central part of Switzerland, the demonstrator will be used to explain the operational and technical advantages of IP connectivity to Swiss TV and radio channel managers, content producers, broadcast systems integrators and telco service providers.

Leader Electronics announces new additions to its range of training resources with the release of three video primers explaining the SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks suite of standards:

Video primer: An Introduction to ST 2110-20 (6 minutes).

Video primer: An Introduction to SMPTE ST 2110-10 System Timing (22 minutes).

Video primer: SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media Over IP (5 minutes).

Phoebe Fraser Ltd, a specialist provider of production support services for film, television and radio, has invested in a Leader LV5350 waveform monitor. The instrument will be used at the company's London headquarters and on location. Its first project will be the upcoming film Matilda, based on the novel by Roald Dahl.

Video Assist Hungary, one of central Europe's most active media service providers, has invested in a Leader LV5350 waveform monitor as part of its expansion into 4K HDR video mastering, color grading and post production. Supplied by Leader channel partner Thameside.tv, the new instrument will also be offered as part of the company's growing HDR rental fleet which is available both for outside broadcast content capture and in-studio finessing.

Leader Electronics announces an enhancement to the audio measurement toolset provided in its ZEN series LV5600 waveform monitoring and LV7600 rasterizer when fitted with the LV5600-SER03/LV7600-SER03 hardware option. The additional features form part of the new ZEN Version 5.3 software which is available as a free download for all ZEN series products.

Leader Electronics announces a new addition to its range of video and audio test equipment. The LVB440 IP Analyzer allows efficient analysis of SD, HD, HD HDR, 4K and 4K HDR data flow over media networks of any size.

VUALTO, a leading live and on-demand video streaming and DRM provider, today announced that France Télévisions, the French public broadcaster and leading audiovisual group in France, has chosen to implement VUALTO’s digital rights management solution, VUDRM, to protect and deliver its audiovisual content across all its digital platforms.

The M-CLEANIT is Crystal Vision's new profanity delay system which is designed to prevent the broadcast of unwanted or offensive video or audio material. Equally suited to IP and SDI environments, the M-CLEANIT's flexibility allows it to be fully customised for any workflow. With intuitive control from a smart button box and separate reaction controls to event and restore, the M-CLEANIT offers the biggest choice of ways to deal with video and audio profanities to keep broadcast content protected – including clean switching to two different video sources or a web page, blurring the video, showing black or blue or colour bars, muting individual audio channels and switching to another audio source. To give the operator time to react, the M-CLEANIT allows an IP or SDI live content stream to be delayed by up to 600 frames, which is 24 seconds in 1080i50, 20 seconds in 1080i59.94, 12 seconds in 720p50/1080p50 and ten seconds in 1080p59.94. The M-CLEANIT is a software app that runs on the MARBLE-V1 media processor hardware, a card which features a powerful CPU/GPU processor and both SDI and 10GbE IP network interface connections and which is housed in the Vision frame.

Ikegami Electronics (Europe) has chosen Leader's LV5600 broadcast-quality waveform monitor for integration into the technical facilities at its headquarters in Neuss. The new instrument is equipped with a 25G-SDI interface and will used be both for routine test and measurement and to demonstrate Ikegami's latest UHD cameras as well as the company's established range of HD-SDR and HD-HDR models.