Hot on the heels of its award-winning NAB Show exhibit, Magewell is coming to InfoComm 2018 with its broadest and deepest product range yet. The centerpiece of the company's InfoComm demonstrations will be the AV-industry debut of the new Ultra Stream HDMI standalone streaming encoder, which makes live streaming remarkably simple even for non-professional users. Magewell will highlight the versatile encoder alongside powerful new and established video interface devices in booth C3468 at the show.

Osprey Video today announced a technology partnership with Zixi, maker of the popular Zixi Platform video workflow orchestrator used by content creators around the world for contribution, management, and distribution of live and live-linear, broadcast-quality video over IP. The partnership integrates the Zixi Platform with Osprey’s Talon encoder and decoders. The result is a joint solution that allows even the smallest content creators to launch broadcast-quality content and channels over IP with little infrastructure and no overhead costs.

At NAB 2018, the hot topic was NDI. NDI, or Network Device Interface, is a royalty free standard developed by NewTek™ to enable video-compatible products to communicate, deliver, and receive broadcast quality video in a high quality, low latency manner that is frame-accurate and suitable for switching in a live production environment. The protocol is designed to be highly robust and is used in many network-connected video devices. It has been widely adopted and the installed base for NDI exceeds 1 million users.

Magewell's debut of its flexible Ultra Stream HDMI standalone streaming encoder at the 2018 NAB Show garnered immediate acclaim, as the company received three significant industry accolades for the intuitive new device. Magewell was honored with a Video Innovation Award (VIA) from the British Columbia Professional Videographers Association (BCPVA) for the second consecutive year, earned a Best of Show Award from NewBay Media's Video Edge, and was named one of the "Top 5 Products for Churches from NAB 2018" by Church Production Magazine.

At the NAB Show, Ericsson introduces its AVP 2000 Contribution Encoder and companion MediaFirst Content Processing (MFCP) Decoder as the industry’s first contribution-path encode/decode solution with support of the MPEG-H TV Audio System, substantially developed by Fraunhofer IIS. MPEG-H is the only next-generation broadcast audio system in regular operation in the world, having been launched by South Korean terrestrial UHD broadcasters in May 2017.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Media Solutions’ market-leading AVP 2000 Contribution Encoder was selected by AT&T to help reliably deliver high-quality UHD encoding to enhance its coverage of a premier golf tournament, after success leveraging the solution for a major winter sports event in February. The deployment also includes Ericsson Media Solutions’ innovative HEVC Encoder Module, which provides high performance compression technology to enable the delivery of AT&T’s widely viewed content across multiple devices.

Expanding beyond its highly-acclaimed strengths in video capture and playout, Magewell will take the wraps off the company's first standalone, hardware-based streaming encoder in booth SU6324 at the 2018 NAB Show. Making live streaming production remarkably simple even for non-professional users, the new Ultra Stream HDMI enables customers to record or stream high-quality video from a variety of sources with one click using on-device buttons or an intuitive, accompanying smartphone app.

Starfish Technologies, a pioneer in broadcast ad insertion and transport stream processing, will introduce new web streaming capabilities to its encoder technology at NAB 2018.

In its new location in the South Lower Hall at the 2018 NAB Show, Cobalt Digital will make a splash with multiple new entries across its product range. Now available is the 9904-UDX-4K up/down/cross-converter for 4K production and broadcast applications, and for flypacks and compact system designs, there's the OG-PC x86 computer on an openGear card. Cobalt's compression products division will introduce the new 9992-ENC-4K-HEVC H.265 Streaming Encoder with quad 3G-SDI and 12G-SDI inputs.

New Raptor 3G and 12G PCIe Capture Cards

Techies cant get enough of NTT Electronics 4K UHD HEVC encoders. Drawing on their long history of leadership in this area, the HC11000/HC10000 solutions offer such benefits as: 100ms low latency, HDR and support for Dolby, IP and ASI transmission; 16 x channel audio, HD support on the same platform as 4K UHD and H264 legacy support when needed. Available in both full-rack and half-rack options, you gain great performance, high-quality moving video, secure stability, and reliability for world class live events, such as the Olympics, World Cup football and motor sports. And for those of you readying yourselves for 8K, check out the first 8K scalable H.265/HEVC encoder from NTT, which archives real-time encoding of SHD 8K contents with better image quality.

Discover our newest partner at this years BVE. Broadcast Wireless Systems (BWS) offer exceptional compression ratios on video resolutions up to 4K UHD the Sapphire encoder/decoder. This supports low latency, high image quality and flexibe audio support making it ideal for live applications such as broadcast contribution, ENG/SNG and wireless cameras. Youll not only save money on contribution bandwidth but save by choosing the most cost effective 4K UHD platforms on the market.