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.

K-Tek’s new Stingray Comtek Pouch is custom designed to provide optimum protection for COMTEK PR-216 series receivers while transporting and working on set or location. With a compact form factor, this black essential cover provides easy access to jacks, switches, controls and the battery compartment, while it safeguards the receiver.

Colorfront (www.colorfront.com), the Academy, Emmy and HPA Award-winning developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, broadcast, OTT and commercials, has further expanded the capabilities of its products to support the latest large format cameras, and launched brand new tools which extend their UHD/HDR color workflow capabilities. Colorfront has also deepened its technology collaborations with key industry partners – including AJA Video Systems, Netflix and HDR10+ Technologies – broadening the impact of its products from set through post production and to the home viewing experience.

Ross Video is delighted to announce the launch of Carbonite Ultra– the next generation of Carbonite that will redefine the capabilities of a midsize switcher.

Ross Video is pleased to announce the launch of Ultritouch, a customizable system-wide hardware control and monitoring panel designed to help operators easily control and move between products and applications while maintaining the speed and fidelity of the equipment they are controlling.

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.

Paywizard, the pay-TV subscription, billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and insight specialist, today announced that it is building the next-generation version of its subscriber intelligence platform, Paywizard Singula™ on the cutting-edgeMicrosoft Azure AI platform. Harnessing Azure’s analytics environment ‘Databricks’, the move enables Paywizard to more quickly, easily and comprehensively extend its machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capability. The result being that Paywizard’s clients are better positioned to action data insight to strengthen customer loyalty, grow revenues and win new subscribers.

Dejero, an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that provide video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, is collaborating with partners Microsoft Azure, Avid, Haivision, Hiscale, Make.TV and Signiant at IBC2018 to showcase how live production workflows in the cloud can deliver greater flexibility, scalability and budget efficiencies to broadcasters.

Megahertz Ltd, the trusted partner for systems integration with years of experience in delivering cost effective, imaginative designs and solutions for fixed and mobile applications, is showing the world’s first all-electric newsgathering vehicle at IBC2018 (Amsterdam, 14 – 18 September, stand 12.F20).

Imagine Communications has extended its playout installations for France Télévisions Outre-Mer (France Ô), the service of France Télévisions which broadcasts to overseas territories. France Ô already uses Imagine Communications Versio™ playout for 12 channels broadcast from Paris; the new contract adds installations in Tahiti, serving the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific, as well as Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.

Imagine Communications has supplied a virtualized playout and asset management system to Janata Television, based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Janata (which translates from Hindi as “the people’s”) TV is part of the Nepalese Janata media company, which is also active in radio and publishing.

Imagine Communications has worked with Italian systems integrator Chromaline S.r.l. to build a state-of-the-art truck for leading Italian outside broadcast company Global Production. The new truck is a first in terms of the number of true 4K Ultra HD cameras it supports and its comprehensive production capability.