TV Tech is now accepting nominations for the IBC2026 Best of Show Award.

The awards are open to IBC2026 show exhibitors and offer a valuable platform for companies to raise awareness for the new products and solutions they will be launching or showcasing at the RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 11-14.

Participating brands include TV Tech, TVBEurope, Radio World, AV Technology, Installation, Sound & Video Contractor and ITPro. Each publication announces its own list of winners, which will be announced at the show.

All award entrants will receive a placard at the show for display, with winners receiving an additional placard to display their success.

The nomination page includes answers to frequently asked questions. Deadline for entry is August 28th.

AMSTERDAM—TV Tech has named its Best of Show Awards winners for IBC2025, which wraps up today. Entrants were judged by a panel of industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry.

Winners will be published in the October issue of TV Tech. In addition to TV Tech, other Future brands that participated in the Best of Show Awards included TVBEurope, Radio World, Installation and ITPro. Nominees paid an entry fee to enter.

This list has been updated.

Here are this year’s winners:

• Adobe:Adobe Premiere Pro: Generative Extend
• AJA Video Systems: AJA Video Systems IP25-R
• Akta: Akta - AI First Video Driving Innovation at IBC 2025
• Appear: SIx300
• ASTERA: Astera_QuikPunch
• Avid: Avid Content Core
• Beamr: High-Efficiency, Cost-Effective Live 4K AI Quality Enhancement
• Bridge Technologies: VB440 Container
• Camera Corps:Camera Corps UHD Underwater Camera
• Clear-Com: freespeak icon
• Cobalt Digital:ST 2110 and HDMI/SDI SAPPHIRE BBG-2110 Mini-Converters
• Eluvio:Eluvio Content Fabric and Application Suite - Bangkok Release
• ENCO:ENCO Raptor Cloud-Based Virtual Encoder Service
• Evergent Technologies: Evergent Captivate 2.0: AI-Powered Churn Management
• Evertz:ENX
• Facilis Technology: Facilis Technology HUB Post Production Workflow
• Frequency: Studio Live
• Iconik by Backlight: Iconik Review: Academy Award-Winning Collaboration for Every Company
• Imagine Communications: Imagine Monitoring Solution
• InSync:MCC-UHD + dual channel HD standards converter
• Lawo: Lawo Workspace UIs
• Mark Roberts Motion Control: Cinebot Nano
• Mediagenix: Humanized Semantic Search
• NAGRAVISION Sarl: NAGRAVISION-OpenTV ENTera
• NANLUX/NANLITE: Evoke 600C
• NUGEN Audio: NUGEN Audio DialogCheck
• PROTON CAMERA INNOVATONS GmbH:PROTON PIO-E for IP and Bluetooth control
• Quantum: Quantum Scalar i7 RAPTOR
• Ross Video: NRG
• Saramonic: Saramonic Witalk9 Full-Duplex Wireless Intercom System
• SDVI: SDVI Rally Connect content and metadata exchange service
• Shure: DCA901 Planar Array Microphone
• Storj: Modernizing Media Production Workflows with Storj
• Strada:Strada
• swXtch.io: groundSwXtch On-Prem Multicast Network Overlay from swXtch.io
• Techex:tx edge for Uniquely Capable Live Contribution
• Telos Alliance: Minnetonka Audio AudioTools® Server V7
• Vizrt: Viz Arena 6
• Whale TV: Whale TV
• Yospace Technologies Ltd: Dynamic Prefetch Solution

The awards are open to IBC2025 show exhibitors and offer a valuable platform for companies to raise awareness for the new products and solutions they will be launching or showcasing at the RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 12-15.

Participating brands include TV Tech, TVBEurope, Radio World, AV Technology, Installation, Sound & Video Contractor and ITPro. Each publication announces its own list of winners, which will be announced at the show.

All award entrants will receive a placard at the show for display, with winners receiving a further placard to display their success.

The nomination page includes answers to frequently asked questions. Deadline for entry is August 29th.

TV Tech has announced its Best of Show Awards for the 2024 IBC Show which ends today in Amsterdam. The awards were judged by a panel of industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry.

All nominees will be featured in a Best of Show Program ebook, available soon. Winners will be published in the October issue of TV Tech. In addition to TV Tech, other Future brands that participated in the Best of Show Awards included TVBEurope, Radio World, Installation and ITPro. Nominees paid an entry fee to enter.

Here are this year's winners:

Adder Technology: ADDERLink INFINITY 1100 Series

Adobe: After Effects

AJA Video Systems: OG-ColorBox

AWS: Cloud-based broadcast operations, monitoring, and control

Aputure: STORM 1200x

Bolin Technology: R9-418N

Bridge Technologies: VB440 Canvas Display

Canon: EOS C80 6K Camera

Cobalt Digital: INDIGO OG-2110-BIDI4-GATEWAY

Comprimato: Twenty-One Encoder

CuttingRoom: CuttingRoom

Dina: Dina

ENCO: enCaption Sierra

Evergent, Mux: Video QoE and Advanced Churn Management

Evertz: Dreamcatcher BRAVO Studio

GlobalM: SDVN Orchestration

Grass Valley: Sport Producer X

IMAX: StreamSmart On-Air

IN2CORE: QTAKE Monitor

Matrox Video: Matrox Avio 2 IP KVM

Maxon:ZBrush for iPad

MediaKind: Fleets and Flows

MultiDyne: MDoG Series of IP Gateways

MwareTV: TVMS App Builder

NEP Group: Mediabank

Operative: Adeline AI

Proton Camera Innovations: Proton Flex

QuickLink: QuickLink StudioEdge

Shure: SLXD Portable Digital Wireless Systems

Sound Devices: A20-SuperNexus

Spherex: SpherexAI

Strada: Strada

Telos Alliance: Linear Acoustic AERO-series DTV Audio Processors

Vizrt: TriCaster Mini S

Wheatstone: Strata Mixing Console with Remote Virtual mixing

Witbe: Mobile Automation

Wohler Technologies: MAVRIC

Xperi/TiVo: TiVo Broadband

TV Tech has announced its Best of Show Awards for the 2024 NAB Show, April 14-17 in Las Vegas. The awards are judged by a panel of industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry.

The winners will be featured in TV Tech magazine, read by thousands of broadcast professionals in the United States, around the world and online. In addition, all nominees will be featured in a Best of Show Program ebook.

The Best of Show Awards, from TV Tech and other brands at its parent company Future US, were chosen from companies that exhibited at the 2024 NAB Show and submitted nominations.

Congratulations to this year's winners:

Actus Digital - Actus MV–Interactive Intelligent Multiviewer

Adder Technology - ADDERLink INFINITY 3000 Series

Adobe - Adobe Premiere Pro-Enhance Speech

AMD - AMD Alveo MA35D Advanced Media Accelerator

Apantac - HDR-UDX

Audinate - Dante Connect

Aveco - ASTRA Media Factory

BirdDog- BirdDog X1. X1 Ultra

Bitcentral - ViewNexa Channels

Bitmovin - Bitmovin Analytics AI User Session Interpreter

Black Box - Emerald AV WALL

Blackmagic Design - Blackmagic 2110 IP Converters

Boland Communications - BGM7-4K

Canon - Canon CJ27ex7.3B lens

Clear-Com - Gen-IC

Cobalt Digital - PACIFIC 9992-ENC-INDIGO

CueScript - CueFlip

Dalet - Dalet Pyramid Planner

Dielectric - OptiLoad

DJI - DJI Focus Pro

Eluvio - Eluvio Content Fabric and Application Suite-Casablanca Release

ENCO Systems- ENCO Qimera Virtual Production

Evergent - Evergent Monetization Platform

Evertz - 7880RFIP Platform

Frequency - Frequency Studio

G&D North America - PersonalWorkplace-Controller Professional Max

Grass Valley - Maverik X

Haivision - Haivision Hub 360

Harmonic - VOS360 Ad SaaS with In-Stream Advertising

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark - E-Compact EC600HP-BB3 Series

IMAX - StreamAware

Interra Systems - BATON 9.0

JVC Professional Video - KY-PZ540 Series PTZ Cameras with 40x zoom

Lawo - HOME management platform for IP

LTN - LTN Arc

LucidLink - LucidLink

NETGEAR AV - M4350 Managed Switches

NPAW - CDN Balancer-Active Switching

Panasonic Connect North America - KC200L1 KAIROS Core

Perifery - The Perifery Intelligent Content Engine (ICE)

PTZOptics - Hive Studio

Quantum - ActiveScale All-Flash Z200

QuickLink - StudioPro

Quickplay - Quickplay Curator Assistant

Rohde & Schwarz- TE1 Transmitter

Ross Video - Artimo

Ross Video - TDx Series Panels

SDVI - Rally Access Workstation

Shure Inc. - Shure Axient Digital ADX3 Plug-On Transmitter with ShowLink

swXtch.io - cloudSwXtch Intelligent Media Network

Synamedia - MEG.mini

Techtriq GmbH - qibb–the integration platform for media workflows

Telestream - Stanza

Telos Alliance - Linear Acoustic AERO-series DTV Audio Processors

Teradek  - Prism Mobile 5G

TVU Networks - TVU MediaHub

VoiceInteraction - MMS

Vubiquity - MetaVU

Wheatstone - Strata Virtual Mixer

Witbe - Smart Navigate

TV Tech has announced its Best of Show Awards for the 2023 NAB Show, April 16-19 in Las Vegas. The awards are judged by a panel of industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry.

The winners will be featured in TV Tech magazine, read by thousands of broadcast professionals in the United States, around the world and online. In addition, all nominees will be featured in a Best of Show Program ebook.

The Best of Show Awards, from TV Tech and other brands at its parent company Future US, were chosen from companies that exhibited at the 2023 NAB Show and submitted nominations.  

Here are this year's winners:

Actus Digital - Actus OTT StreamWatch

Alteon.io - Alteon.io

Amazon Web Services (AWS) - AWS Color in the Cloud

Apantac - Mi-16-NDI

Audio Design Desk - Audio Design Desk 2.0

Audio Design Desk - Makr.

BB&S Lighting - Reflect 4-Bank System

BirdDog - BirdDog X120

Bitcentral - Fusion Hybrid Storage

Blackbird plc - Blackbird

Blackmagic Design - Blackmagic Studio Camera 6K Pro

Blackmagic Design - ATEM Television Studio HD8

Bolin Technology - EX–Ultra

Bridge Technologies - VB330 with new SCTE 104/35 & visual recording functionality

Broadpeak - Advanced CDN

Canon - Canon Flex Zoom lenses - CN-E14-35mm T1.7 L S/SP wide-angle zoom lens and the CN-E31.5-95mm T1.7 L S/SP telephoto zoom lens

Clear-Com - Arcadia with HelixNet Integration

Digital Nirvana - MediaServicesIQ Version 2

Edgio - Uplynk

Evertz - DreamCatcher - BRAVO Studio Virtualized Production Suite

Harmonic - VOS360 Ad

IHSE USA - Draco G-Flex KVM Matrix

Interra Systems - ORION Content Monitoring Suite

JVC Professional Video - GY-HC500UN, NDI-enabled Handheld Broadcast Camera

LiveU - LiveU Studio

LiveU - LiveU Ingest

LTN - LTN Wave

LucidLink - FileSpaces

Matrox Video - Matrox ORIGIN

MultiDyne - HoneyBadger

Net Insight - Trust Boundary Appliance

Newsbridge - Newsbridge MXT-1 AI generative indexing technology

Nextologies - Control Panel (CP)

NPAW - Video Analytics

OWC - Jellyfish XT

Panasonic Connect - KAIROS

Planar - Planar Venue Pro VX Series

PlayBox Neo - Media Gateway for live media delivery and distribution

Quantum - Quantum Myriad

Ross Video - Carbonite Ultra 60

Sony - VENICE Extension System 2

Spherex - Spherexgreenlight

SSIMWAVE, An IMAX Company - VOD Monitor

swXtch.io - cloudSwXtch Video Overlay Network

TAG Video Systems - Content Matching Technology

Telemetrics - OmniGlide Robotic Roving Platform

Telestream - PRISM MPP

Telestream - Content Manager

Telos Alliance - WorkflowCreator

Telos Alliance - Telos Infinity Virtual Intercom Platform (VIP) App

Triveni Digital - ATSC 3.0 Translator

TVU Networks - TVU RPS One

Varnish Software - Varnish Enterprise 6

Vela Research LP - AdStrategy

VoiceInteraction - Audimus.Media

VoiceInteraction - MMS

Yuvod - Yuvod’s Platform-as-a-Service Streaming Solution

Zixi - Zixi-as-a-Service (ZaaS)

Future has launched the Best of Show Awards for the NAB Show, now celebrating its 10 anniversary. The prestigious annual awards recognize outstanding products and solutions in the M&E tech sector shown at the NAB Show.

The awards, from industry leading brands of Future plc, provide a great opportunity for companies to stand out at one the most attended shows in the industry. There are a range of benefits, from fully-licensed winner's badges to physical trophies for display, a suite of winner's marketing assets to editorial coverage from our brands, including TV Tech, Radio World, Sound & Video Contractor, Next TV, Mix, TVBEurope and Broadcasting+Cable.

“Now entering its second decade, the Best of Show awards have given TV Tech and our sister brands the opportunity to honor those NAB Show exhibitors who have demonstrated the innovation and technical excellence so deserving of this award,” said TV Tech Editor in Chief Tom Butts. "We can't wait to see what's new on the show floor this year."

The Best of Show awards are chosen from companies that exhibit at the NAB Show in April and that submit nominations (nominees pay a fee to enter). All nominees and winners will be featured in a post-convention Program Guide distributed to our readers. (Here’s a look at last year’s guide)

Click here to begin your entry ahead of the March 31st deadline, or continue to browse through the site to find out more about the awards including how to enter, what Future plc brands are involved in the awards, benefits for entering and a range of FAQs.

IBC is back for its first in-person gathering in three years, and so too is Future’s annual IBC Best of Show awards program which celebrates the innovation and craft of the industry’s R&D teams by recognizing some of the standout products and solutions on display in Amsterdam.

The 2022 IBC Best of Show Awards are open to IBC 2022 show exhibitors and offer a valuable platform for companies to raise awareness for the new products and solutions they will be launching or showcasing at the RAI, Sept. 9-12.

Participating brands include TVBEurope, TV Tech and Radio World. Each publication announces its own list of winners, which will be announced at the show. All nominees and winners will be featured in a post-convention Program Guide distributed to our readers. (Here’s a look at last year’s guide)

The nomination page includes answers to frequently asked questions. Deadline for entering is August 24.

The deadline for submitting nominations for the TV Tech Best in Market and Best of Show Awards for spring 2022 has been extended to April 18.

“We're looking forward to the likelihood of an in-person event in April,” said Editor in Chief Tom Butts. “People want to return to some semblance of normalcy in our industry and we're hoping the 2022 NAB Show will bring some of that back, giving attendees the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and expanding their network of industry connections.

“TV Tech is proud to bring back the Best in Show and Best in Market awards that recognize technology excellence, allowing us to honor advances from companies that exhibit at the show or choose to participate through the Best in Market option.”

The Best of Show awards, from TV Tech and other brands at its parent company Future, are chosen from companies that exhibit at the NAB Show in April and that submit nominations. The Best in Market is open to any company.

Participating brands include TV Tech, TVBEurope, NextTV, B&C, Radio World, Mix and Sound & Video Contractor. Each publication announces its own winners’ list.

All nominees and winners will be featured in a post-convention Program Guide distributed to our readers. (Here’s a look at last year’s guide.)

The nomination page includes answers to frequently asked questions. Deadline for entering is April 18.

The deadline to submit nominations for the Best of 2021 Awards has been extended to 30th November.

Our Best of 2021 Awards recognizes outstanding broadcast products and solutions brought to market between September 2020 (the 2020 IBC Showcase) and December 2021.

The awards program is supported by Future’s media and entertainment technology brands – TV Tech, TVBEurope and Radio World – and each brand will be providing its own dedicated coverage of all the winning entries. The previously announced Best of Show Awards are now be included in the Best of 2021 program following the cancellation of IBC’s in-person show.

The Best of 2021 Awards is open to companies who have launched products between September 2020 and December 2021

The awards program contains three separate categories to enter depending on the most relevant magazine publication for your product: TV Tech, TVBEurope and Radio World

Full details of how to submit an entry are available on the dedicated Awards’ website.

The Best of Show Awards digital supplement is now available to read and download. The ebook showcases all of the entries from this year’s awards program that took place around the virtual IBC Showcase earlier this month.

The awards, which recognize the products and technologies that broadcast providers launched and demonstrated around the show, are supported by four of Future’s leading media technology brands: TV Technology, TVBEurope, Pro Sound News and Radio World, and are judged by an independent panel of industry and Future market specialists.

“We’ve had a terrific turnout considering the virtual nature of the current trade show environment, which is fantastic because it’s important that product development and innovation continues to receive the visibility it deserves despite the lack of physical events,” said Future B2B group content director, James McKeown.

“Every year the level of entries goes up a gear and 2020 is no exception. The quality and agility of the tech and solutions on show this year is testament to the work being done by product and R&D teams throughout this community, and our sincere congratulations go to the winners and all of those nominated for an award.”

Download the full Best of Show Awards digital supplement here.

TV Technology has announced the winners of this year’s Best of Show Awards Virtual Edition. The awards are taking place during this week’s IBC Showcase and recognize the products and technologies that broadcast providers are launching and demonstrating around the show.

The awards are supported by four of Future’s leading media technology brands: TVBEurope, Pro Sound News, Radio World, and TV Technology, and are judged by an independent panel of industry and Future market specialists.

“We’ve had a terrific turnout considering the virtual nature of the current trade show environment, which is fantastic because it’s important that product development and innovation continues to receive the visibility it deserves despite the lack of physical events,” said Future B2B group content director, James McKeown.

“Every year the level of entries goes up a gear and 2020 is no exception. The quality and agility of the tech and solutions on show this year is testament to the work being done by product and R&D teams throughout this community, and our sincere congratulations go to the winners and all of those nominated for an award.”

A special digital supplement featuring all of the nominated products for this year’s awards will be available next week. You can sign up to our daily newsletters to ensure you receive your copy.

TVB Europe's award winners can be found here. 

Here are this year's recipients:

Adobe - Roto Brush 2 in After Effects 

Adobe - Scene Edit Detection in Premiere Pro 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) - AWS Elemental Link 

Bridge Technologies - Bridge PoE (Power over Ethernet) Instrument View Kit 

Creamsource - Vortex8 

Dejero - Dejero CuePoint 50 compact return feed server

disguise - disguise Extended Reality (xR)

Eluvio - Eluvio Content Fabric

Interra Systems - BATON LipSync Automatic Audio-Video Sync Detection 

Net Insight - Nimbra Edge

NewTek - TriCaster 2 Elite

OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies - OWNZONES’ Deep Analysis

Ross Video - Ross Graphite PPC (Portable Production Centre)

Synamedia - Media Edge Gateway

Telestream - Telestream Inspect 2110 - IP Video Monitoring 

TVU Networks - TVU Partyline

Wheatstone - Remote Dimension Three Touch Mixer

NEW YORK—Future US’s AV Technology brand is pleased to announce its annual Best of Show winners at InfoComm 2020 Connected. This select group of products represents the tide of innovation on display at the show, which features thousands of new solutions from hundreds of exhibiting manufacturers. Winners were chosen based on the expert analysis of a panel of industry veterans who reviewed each product in depth over the week leading up to the convention. 

“I’m honored once again to be able to congratulate our winning manufacturers for their outstanding bounty of innovation,” said Matt Pruznick, editor of AV Technology. “The strength of this year’s field is a salient barometer of the health of our industry. Amid all of the uncertainty in today’s world, one only need look at these shining examples of engineering for reassurance. This sustained enthusiasm made for a good challenge; the process of narrowing down the impressive roster of nominations was as difficult as ever. So, it is with the utmost pride that I present these awards to 2020’s best of the best.”

Winning products will be covered in the post-InfoComm print and digital issues of AV Technology and online throughout the coming months.

AV Technology Best of Show Special Edition Winners:

• 1 Beyond Automate VX
• Adder Technology ADDERLink INFINITY 3000
• Albiral Display Solutions/Arthur Holm Dynamic4
• AMX Enova DVX-3266
• Aurora Multimedia Tauri Temperature Check Tablet
• AVCAD AVCAD
• Axis Communications AXIS C1410
• Barix IP Former
• BenQ DuoBoard 
• Blackmagic Design ATEM Mini Pro
• BlueJeans by Verizon BlueJeans Events
• Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 UC
• Christie Griffyn 4K32-RGB
• Clevertouch UX Pro
• Crestron Flex MX
• Crestron Flex R-Series
• Crestron 4K Multiformat 2x1 AV Switch and Receiver with PoE+
• Crestron X Series Amplifier
• Draper Acumen
• ENCO Systems enCaption
• Epson PowerLite 805F UST
• FIBERCOMMAND IROVF
• Kramer VP-440X
• Kramer VP-551X
• LG 55SVH7PF-H
• Liberty AV Solutions Adapter Ring 2.0
• Mersive Solstice Cloud Analytics
• Nureva HDL200
• Pexip Adaptive Composition
• Ross Video Ross Graphite PPC
• ScreenBeam 1100 Plus
• Sennheiser SpeechLine MCR DW
• Sonic Foundry Mediasite Mosaic
• Sony Eye Sensing Light Field Display
• Sony VPL-CWZ10
• SurgeX Squid Power Management System
• Vanguard ChipFlip
• VisibilityOne SaaS UC&C Monitoring and Management
• Yealink VC210 Teams Edition

This story originally appeared on TVT's sister publication AV Technology.

WASHINGTON—TV Technology shared its Best of Show Special Edition Award winners earlier this month, but you can find out more about all of the companies that participated with the Best of Show 2020 Program Guide ebook.

The digital guide features all of the nominees that participated in this year’s special version of the Best of Show Awards program that was held online in absence of the 2020 NAB Show. Companies share in their own words the details of their products. An awards logo at the top of the page indicates a winning product.

Nominees and winners are included from TV Technology, Digital Video, Video Edge, Pro Sound News, Next|TV, Sound & Video Contractor, Radio World, TVBEurope, Government Video and B+C.

Read the online version here. 

WASHINGTON—TV Technology is delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Best of Show Special Edition Awards.

The special edition of the program was created this year in the absence of a physical spring NAB Show. It honors and helps promote outstanding new, recently introduced and pending products and services.

The full list of winners from TV Technology are:

• 7Mountains—DINA - Cloud Newsroom Solution
• Advantech—VEGA-8300E 8K Broadcast Video Encoder 
• AVIWEST—RACK300 HEVC Video Contribution Encoder 
• Black Box—Emerald PE IP-Based KVM Extenders 
• Broadpeak—S4Streaming 
• Canon USA—CJ18ex7.6B KASE S UHDgc 
• Cineo Lighting—Reflex r15 
• ENCO Systems—enCaption Live Automated Captioning 
• Evertz Microsystems—SCORPION Smart Media Processing Platform 
• LG Business Solutions—.44mm Bezel LCD Video Wall (55SVH7PF) 
• Litra LLC—LitraStudio Portable RGBWW LED Light 
• Masstech—Kumulate 
• PHABRIX—QxL - 25G IP Enabled Rasterizer 
• Primestream—Primestream Creative Bridge 
• PRO VIDEO INSTRUMENTS—INFINIUM® 
• Qligent Corp.—Dymos™ Event Based Dynamic Monitoring 
• Quantum—Quantum F1000 
• Rohde & Schwarz—R&S NextGen TV transmitter solution 
• Signiant—Jet 
• Sony—Sony PVM-X2400 4K HDR TRIMASTER Monitor 
• Telestream—Wirecast Gear 
• Thinklogical, a Belden Brand—Low-Latency 12G SDI Extenders 
• TVU Networks—TVU One with integrated 5G modem 
• Vela—Compliance Monitoring Logger/Multiviewer 
• Verimatrix—VCAS 5 for DVB 
• Verizon Media Platform—Verizon Media Control 
• Wheatstone—Blade 4 for WheatNet-IP Audio Network 
• Zixi—Zixi Software-Defined Video Platform 

Winners have been selected by panels of professional users and magazine and site editors.

“Our thanks to the many companies that participated in this year’s program under such unusual circumstances,” said Paul McLane, managing director of content in Future’s B2B media technology group. “It’s clear from the nominations and the outstanding winners that despite the current health crisis, technology innovation remains strong in our industry.”

Winners and nominees will be featured in a Program Guide to be distributed shortly to 95,000 broadcast and media readers across Future’s media brands.

WASHINGTON—A reminder to participating companies that the deadline to nominate in the Special Edition "Best of Show" Awards is this Friday, May 1. 

As announced earlier, the new deadline was set to match up with the date of the new virtual version of the NAB Show.

The Special Edition Best of Show Awards program is an initiative of our parent company Future plc to showcase new, innovative products introduced this spring for specialized technology users. 

Companies can nominate products for awards presented by the following publications and sites: TV Technology, TVBEurope, Digital Video, Government Video, Video Edge, Radio World, Pro Sound News, Sound & Video Contractor, B+C, and Next TV.

Companies seeking guidance about which brand to enter for can find guidance here.

For more information about the Special Edition Best of Show Awards, visit the official website.

AMSTERDAM—TV Technology's sister publication TVBEurope has announced the winners of the Best of Show at IBC 2019 Awards.

This year’s winners include PHABRIX for its QxL 25G rasterizer, designed to address the needs of IP workflows; LiveU and Griiip’s joint solution for live viewing and data insights in motorsports; and Iron Mountain Entertainment Services for the Iron Mountain InSight platform, which uses AI and ML to efficiently scan media inventories.

The full list of winners for media and entertainment is as follows:

• Cinegy GmbH – Cinegy Capture PRO – No one scales better
• Prime Focus Technologies – AI for Cricket – CLEAR Vision Cloud
• x.news information technology Gmbh – x.news – conceptr
• Pixit Media – PixStor
• Vela – Version 6.0 of Vela Luna/Encompass SmartLoggers
• Embrionixem – Virtu All-IP Core Infrastructure and Media Processing Platform
• GatesAir – Intraplex Ascent SRT Video over IP Gateway
• iSize Technologies – BitSave
• PHABRIX – QxL – 25G IP Enabled Rasterizer
• Cobalt Digital – 9992-DEC-4K-HEVC
• TVLogic – IS-mini 4K – Real time digital video colour processor
• Dejero – Dejero IronRoute
• MediaKind – Cygnus 360 Events
• BirdDog – P4K
• Cinegy GmbH – Cinegy Air PRO – No one scales better
• EditShare – EFS 2020
• Mediaproxy Pty Ltd – LogServer
• LYNX Technik AG – HDR Evie – HDR to SDR conversion and image processing
• Glensound Electronics Ltd – DIVINE AoIP PoE Powered Monitor Dante/AES67 Diecast Network Audio Powered Loudspeaker
• Ross Video – Ross Ultrix IP Software Defined Platform
• Vionlabs – Vionlabs Content Discovery Platform
• Singular.live – Singular.live
• InterDigital Research & Innovation – Digital Double
• BT – BT Sport Ultimate
• Bridge Technologies – Widglets API for the VB440 network probe
• ThinkAnalytics – ThinkAdvertising
• STREAM CIRCLE – A.M.O.S. – Autonomous Metadata Oriented Scheduling
• LiveU and Griiip – LiveU and Griiip Unveil Unique Motorsports Live Viewing and Data-Driven Media Solution Platform
• AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services company – AWS Elemental MediaConnect
• Adder Technology – ADDERLink INFINITY 4000 Series (ALIF4000)
• Quantum – Quantum F-Series
• Rohde & Schwarz – R&S PRISMON.cloud
• Cloudian – Cloudian HyperStore Xtreme, Powered by Seagate
• Facilis – HUB Shared Storage system
• Telestream – OptiQ Monitor
• Primestream – Elastic Data Viewer for AI
• Ncam Technologies – Ncam Mk2
• Dalet Digital Media Systems – Dalet Media Cortex
• GatesAir – Maxiva IMTX-70 Intra-Mast Transmitter
• Grass Valley – GV STRATUS One
• intoPIX – TICO-RAW codec
• Cyanview – CY-STEM
• Ross Video – Ross PIERO Sports Graphic Analysis
• Zylight – Go-Panel
• Telemetrics, Inc. – PT-RE-2 (RoboEye2) Robotic Pan/Tilt/Zoom Camera
• Iron Mountain Entertainment Services – Iron Mountain InSight
• Zixi – The Zixi Platform
• Haivision – SRT Hub

Congratulations to all the winners, and be sure to check out the winning products on the show floor.

The deadline to submit entries for this year’s Best of Show Awards at IBC2019 has been extended for a further 24 hours.

Entries can now be submitted up until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10.

In addition to TVBEurope, Best of Show Awards will be given out by Future publications PSNEurope, and Radio World International.

This year’s TVBEurope category is home to all broadcast/media and entertainment technology products and solutions.

You can submit your entry via www.futurebestofshow.com

Coverage areas in this category include, but are not limited to:

• Acquisition products, technology, and accessories
• Adtech
• AI, automation and machine learning
• Archiving and storage
• CDNs
• Cloud
• Cyber security
• Data and analytics
• Displays and screens
• Drone and aerial filming kit
• Field/mobile reporting
• Graphics
• IP-based workflows
• IPTV
• KVM
• Live production
• Live streaming
• Media asset management
• Media transport
• Metadata
• Mobile networks (4G/5G/LTE Broadcast)
• OB/on-location units
• OTT
• Playout
• Post production & VFX
• Satellite
• Studio production
• Smart media technologies
• Test and measurement
• Transcoding
• UHD/HDR/HFR
• VoD services
• VR/AR/MR

Entries are open to any company that exhibits a new product at IBC2019. Products need not be shipping but must be shown publicly at IBC2019. The cost of each entry is £410 (US$507) per product.

“Best of Show Up Close” is a series about nominees and winners in the annual Future Best of Show at NAB award program.

We spoke with Rich Pierceall, vice president if LED operations at Cineo Lighting, which was a Best of Show winner with its LightBlade Edge lighting system.

TV TECHNOLOGY:Tell us about the LightBlade Edge lighting system, what does it offer broadcasters?

RICH PIERCEALL: The LightBlade Edge system is a high-output linear soft light system that offers all of the benefits of Cineo’s larger fixtures, The Edge Blades are available in two lengths, 2-feet and 4-feet, both with 80 watts of output power. Modular mounting systems support multiple Edge Blades to be ganged into larger fixtures.The big advantage to broadcasters is that extremely high-quality, high-output light sources can now be configured to fit in a variety of confined spaces, particularly low-ceiling environments such as newsrooms and office/bureaus. We have also seen the LightBlade Edge used in ring-of-fire applications, and circular configurations used to light swing stages.

TVT:What is it about LightBlade Edge that sets it apart from similar offerings?

RP: The LightBlade Edge products have a higher lumen density than any other linear production lighting fixture: up to 8,000 lumens per Blade. They deliver Cineo's high-CRI variable white light spectrum and include a REC.2020 saturated color engine, with both local and DMX/RDM control.

TVT:Has the LightBlade Edge been used by any major productions as of yet?

RP: Yes. Several broadcast installations have specified the LightBlade Edge system, including the new Comcast broadcast facility in Philadelphia. LightBlade Edge units have been used on many feature and episodic productions for NBCUniversal, as well as streaming services and other networks.

TVT:What does it cost? Is it shipping?

RP: The LightBlade Edge series starts at $995 USD list. The flexibility of configuration allows it to be configured in a wide range of sizes and prices.

TVT:What else should we know about LightBlade Edge or Cineo in general?

RP: Over six years ago, Cineo Lighting was started by a small team of lighting professionals, focused on changing the way LED technology could be effectively applied to production lighting. NBCUniversal acquired Cineo Lighting in June of this year. The Cineo brand, its products and staff are all remaining intact, and in fact we are now able to accelerate our efforts to provide even more tools and techniques to help production professional tell their stories.

“Best of Show Up Close” is a series about nominees and winners in the annual Future Best of Show at NAB award program.

We spoke with Bryan Gordon of Flanders Scientific, which was a Best of Show winner with its XM311K monitor.

TV Technology:Tell us about XM311K, what does it offer broadcasters?

Bryan Gordon: The XM311K is a 31-inch 10-bit professional reference monitor designed for color critical monitoring of 4K, UHD and HD signals. It features robust 3D LUT based calibration support and HDR capabilities making it suitable for a wide range of applications.

With a 12Gbps SDI I/O that supports 12G, 6G and Quad 3G SDI in, out and loop-through connections, the XM311K is ready for any professional workflow. The monitor showcases many useful features, such as 4K compatible waveform and vectorscope, two de-interlacing options, HD-to-UHD upscaling, direct compatibility with on-set color applications and a variety of markers.

The XM311K utilizes a Light Modulating Cell Layer LCD that boasts a fullscreen peak luminance of 1,000cd/m2 support for both PQ and HLG EOTFs, multiple color gamut selections and a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1.

TVT:Tell us about the new firmware updates for XM monitors and what advantages that will bring?

BG: The newest firmware update (1.1.61) for XM series monitors includes the highly anticipated LUM Coloring adjustable exposure check feature. This false color capability generates an artificial luminance map of the incoming source that can be particularly useful in identifying the overexposed or underexposed areas of any given shot. An onscreen scale helps indicate which artificial color corresponds with what luminance, and includes four knob-adjustable points from 0-100% that allow you to establish specific target areas to be shown in false color or grayscale.

TVT:What is it about XM311K that sets it apart from similar offerings?

BG: The XM311K features industry leading tetrahedral LUT interpolation, qualifies as a Dolby Vision mastering monitor and is suitable for practically any 4K, UHD or HD monitoring requirement in both HDR and SDR. The XM311K uses a groundbreaking new LCD technology that introduces an independently controllable layer of light modulating cells between the backlight and traditional display cell. This allows for greatly expanded individual pixel level control of light intensity resulting in several key benefits compared to traditional LCDs including truer black levels, much higher contrast ratios, no halation / flare artifacts and no loading behavior. Compared to OLED technology LMCL has the distinct benefit of avoiding burn-in as well as being able to maintain consistent peak luminance regardless of overall scene brightness.

TVT:What does it cost? Is it shipping?

BG: FSI is pleased to announce that the XM311K HDR Mastering monitor has a new lower list price of $35,000 and is available to purchase now.

TVT:What else should we know about XM311K or Flanders Scientific in general?

BG: Flanders Scientific is an Alpharetta, Georgia-based company offering high quality professional equipment to the broadcast and post-production industries. In addition to our Atlanta area headquarters, FSI also operates a sales and service center in Lier, Belgium, providing direct service to customers throughout Europe.

Are you exhibiting at the NAB Show? Believe it or not, April is just around the corner. Along with registering to attend the show and making your hotel and airline reservations, we’re doing our best to help you prepare. Here are some other items to put on your To Do List.

1. Get Covered by the Official NAB Show Daily News

Exhibitors should submit news now for editorial consideration in the official NAB Show Daily News. The Daily is published by Future US under contract with NAB. For more details and to submit your news, product information and photos, click here. Interested in advertising in the Daily? Click here.

2. Gain Recognition for Your New Products With a ‘Best of Show’ Award

Make sure the new products you unveil at the show stand out from the crowd. Future US magazine judges are looking for the year’s game-changing technologies that deserve Best of Show Awards. Your entry will tell us why you think we should be paying attention. Nominate your new product(s) here.

3. Be a Part of Our Preview Issues

Help attendees learn more about your products ahead of the show. TV Technology, Radio World and Radio World International publish preview issues dedicated to the NAB Show. As an exhibitor you can be a part of those issues by completing our online form here.

4. Let Us Do the Heavy Lifting

With so many events and companies at the show, let us help you fine-tune your plans. Be sure you are scheduled to receive the Sneak Peek weekly enewsletters from TV Technology and/or Radio World. They are filled with product and show news and begin in February. Subscribe here.

5. Engage With Us on Social Media

Don’t miss a thing ahead of, during and after the show. Like and follow TV Technology and Radio World on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for news, articles and Q&As to maximize your experience. Be sure to #NABShow in your own tweets and posts so your colleagues can stay up to date on show and product news, too.

AMSTERDAM—The shortlist for the NewBay Best of Show Awards at IBC 2017 has been announced.

Our Best Of Show awards honor the best new products on display at the IBC trade show in Amsterdam.

The shortlist for the TVBEurope category is as follows:

– Amino ENABLE, Amino Communications

– Aspera FASPStream in conjunction with Telestream Vantage and Lightspeed Live Capture, Aspera

– Avid Media Composer | First, Avid

– AIR320, AVIWEST

– Context Aware Encoding, Brightcove

– Dejero Cellsat, Dejero

– SNAPBOX, DoPChoice

– Suggested TV, Easel TV

– MediaFirst Video Processing Encoding Live mixing SDR content with HDR content in live broadcasting, Ericsson Media Solutions

– Product under embargo, EVS

– GV Matrix, Grass Valley

– LU600 with 4K HEVC Pro Card, LiveU

– Mistika VR, Mistika

– NewTek NDI PTZ Camera, NewTek

– Network ID, NexGuard

– OnFrame, OnFrame

– Paywizard Agile and Massive AXIS, Paywizard

– Ross Graphite All-in-One Production System, Ross Video

– All-New flowtech Tripod Technology, Sachtler and Vinten

–Selenio Network Processor, Imagine Communications

– Product under embargo, SmallHD

– FormatFusion4, Snell Advanced Media

– Timed Text Speech, Telestream

– Product under embargo, The Telos Alliance: Television Solutions Group

– Timeline’s triple-expanding IP 4K HDR outside broadcast truck, UHD2, Timeline Television

– TVU Router, TVU Networks

– Verspective RT, Verimatrix

– PERSEUS-powered Universal Media Player, by V-Nova Ltd and THEO Technologies, V-Nova

– Wedit, VSN

– x.news, x.news information technology

The Best of Show Awards at IBC are supported by six NewBay brands—TVBEurope, our sister publication TV Tech Global, PSNEurope, Audio Media International, Radio World and Installation. For the full NewBay shortlist, click here.

Congratulations to those who have made the list with their new products and services. The NewBay Best of Show judges look forward to visiting your stands and awarding some worthy winners in Amsterdam.

This story originally appeared on TVT's sister publication TVB Europe. 

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Catch up with the nearly 300 products that were nominated for NewBay Media’s 2017 NAB Show Best of Show Awards with the recently released 2017 Best of Show Program Guide.

The digital Program Guide features all of the nominees who participated in our 2017 NewBay Media Best of Show Awards program and highlights the winners. In the guide, companies express in their own words why they believe their product(s) are noteworthy. The guide is an excellent resource to sample all of the new technology that was on the show floor.

To access the free virtual program guide, click here.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—The Best of Show Awards program covering the spring NAB Show continues to grow! Now your free Best of Show Program Guide from NewBay Media is hot off the virtual presses and you can read it here.

It’s a great way to learn about 280 (!) new products that were introduced at the spring convention for TV/video, radio, audio and pro AV professionals. 

This digital Program Guide features all of the nominees who participated in our 2016 NewBay Media Best of Show Awards program, and highlights the winners. The guide allows companies to tell you in their own words why they believe a certain product is noteworthy; and it offers an excellent sampler of new technology from the convention floor. 

Click here.

LAS VEGAS—TV Technology has announced the Best of Show Award winners for the 2016 NAB Show.

NewBay Media’s Best of Show Awards are judged by a panel of engineers and industry experts on the criteria of innovation, feature set, cost efficiency and performance in serving the industry. The winners will be featured in TV Technology magazine, read by thousands of broadcast professionals in the United States, around the world and online. TV Technology is the industry’s leading magazine for technology news and reviews. Only a small number of products were selected to receive a Best of Show Award from among hundreds of new products in competition. Companies pay a fee to nominate a product.

Product details will be posted shortly. The winners are:

Accelerated Media Technologies — ENGenesis LTE IP-Based 2/7GHz ENG BAS Band System

Accelerated Media Technologies — CID-Passport

Akamai— Broadcast Operations Control Center and Services

Aspera - FASPstream Software for Live and Near-live Video Streaming

Avid — Avid NEXIS Intelligent Storage Platform

Bitcentral— Continuum 24/7 Automated Digital News Channel Solution

Black Box — DKM FX 4K60 Interface Cards

Blackmagic Design — Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder

Bridge Technologies — Timeline Data Analysis

Canon— COMPACT-SERVO 18-80mm T4.4L Zoom Lens

Canon — ME200S—SH Multi-Purpose Camera

ChyronHego — ChyronHego LyricX

Clear-com — Freespeak II-Base Wireless Intercom System

Cobalt Digital — Cobalt Digital 9922-2FS for openGear

Datavideo — KMU-100

DekTec — DTU-315: ATSC 3.0 test modulator

Embrionix— emSFP-GATEWAY SDI/IP Conversion Module

ENCO — MOM-Media Operations Manager

Evertz— evEDGE Software Defined Compute/Routing Platform

Fujifilm/Fujinon — UA107x8.4 4K Ultra HD Field Lens

Fusion Broadcast — ORD-55 : OLED 4K Reference Display System

GatesAir— Maxiva High-Power UHF Air-Cooled Transmitters

GatesAir— Maxiva XTE Multiformat Exciter for TV Transmitters

Grass Valley — iTX On-Demand

Grass Valley — GV Korona K-Frame S-series Production Switcher

Hitachi Kokusai Electric Comark LLC — PARALLAX Liquid Cooled Solid-State Transmitter

IHSE USA — Draco ultra DisplayPort 4K Extender for KVM

IHSE USA — Draco UNI matrix switch for KVM, USB & SDI formats

Ikegami— UHK-430 4K/HD Portable Camera System

Ikegami — HDL-F3000 Ultra Low-Light Multi-Purpose Compact Camera

Imagine Communications — xG Schedule Cloud-Based Planning and Scheduling

iZotope — RX 5 Audio Editor Advanced

JVCKENWOOD— GY-HM200SP Sports Production Streaming Camcorder

Lawo — V__matrix

LiveU— LiveU MultiPoint IP-Based Distribution Workflow

Matrox— Matrox Monarch LCS Lecture Capture Appliance

Miller Camera Support — arrowX Fluid Head Series

NeoGroupe— NBS Assets Tracking Solution

Net Insight AB — Sye

NewTek— Network Device Interface (NDI)

NICE PEOPLE AT WORK (NPAW) — YOUBORA Business Intelligence/Video Analytics Platform

ONEtastic— ONETASTIC Spectrum Restorer

Paywizard — Expanded Paywizard Agile feature set

Pebble Beach Systems— Orca, Virtualized Channel-in-a-Box

PESA — Vidblox HTR

Planar, A Leyard Company — Leyard TW Series LED Video Wall

Pliant Technologies — CrewCom Professional Wireless Intercom

Pronology — Pronology mRes Multi-resolution Encoder

Ross Video — ACID Camera

RTS Intercom Systems — New Software for KP-Series Intercom Keypanels

ScheduALL— ScheduALL Portal

Semtech — UHDTV Application Specific Integrated Circuit

Sennheiser— EK 6042 Two—channel Camera Receiver

Sixty — Ease Live-Interactive, clickable on-air graphics

SmallHD— SmallHD HDR Production Monitors

Sony — HDC-4800 4K 8x High-Speed Camera System

SoftPanels — Softpanels LED Lights with Autocolor

Teamcast— Stream4Cast ATSC3.0 Modulation & IP Streaming Solution

Telemetrics — State of the Art Robotic Pan/Tilt Head

Teradek — Teradek Sphere

The Weather Company — Max Connect

Timecode Systems Limited — SyncBac Pro

Triveni Digital — GuideBuilder XM Signaling & Announcement System for ATSC 3.0

TSL Products — PAM-IP

TSL Products — MPA Audio Monitoring Family

TVU Networks — TVU RPS Live Multi-Camera Remote Production System

Visionsmith — LED ReLamp for Halogen Fresnels

Vizrt — Viz Story

V-Nova — Sky in Italy's HD IPTV Platform, powered by Perseus

Wheatstone— LXE Digital Audio TV Master Control Console

Yospace— yospaceCDS: Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live Simulcast

“We are enormously proud of our Best of Show recipients,” said NewBay Media Broadcast & Video Group Vice President & Group Publisher Eric Trabb. “Recognition with an award at the NAB Show from NewBay Media’s Broadcast & Video Group is a strong vote of confidence and admiration from our leading industry publications.”

LAS VEGAS—TV Technology issued its Best of Show award winner list for the 2015 NAB Show on Friday. Here, we relate what the products were and why our team of judges liked them.

Accelerated Media Technologies of Auburn, Mass., won for the Genesis TDD AdderLink Infinity Manager ENG Microwave System, which offers bi-directional ENG microwave using TDD, as well as full time IFB, telephony, ASI and IP connectivity.
“Patent pending, new way to transmit LTE (bi-directional data) on 2 GHz BAS channels… game changer new technology, making better use of spectrum. Can channel share.”

Adder Technology of Cambridge, England won for its AdderLink Infinity Manager, a control suite that uses standard IP infrastructure to route any user station to any computer attached to the network and share multicast of video without diminishing video quality.
“AdderLink Infinity Manager delivers a highly flexible and powerful digital matrix solution.”

AEQ USA of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won for CrossNET, a digital intercom AEQ Crossnet matrix that supports AoIP multi-channel connectivity for broadcast-quality audio and is compatible with the AES67 standard.
A “digital intercom matrix, supporting a high number—168 x 168—of ports, 128 of them via Dante…. A really nice system.”

AJT Systems, Inc. also of Fort Lauderdale, won for its third-generation LiveBook GFX, a portable scorebug system that features separate preview and program windows, full animation HD templates, a stats interface, a go-to break graphic, AJT LiveBook Clock-DVE and a customizable generic scorebug for multiple sports.
“An excellent, low cost sports graphics system on a laptop, priced so even a large High School could afford it.”

Arvato Systems of Gütersloh, Germany, won for Adstore, a joint sales platform for TV, Web, mobile and VOD. Adstore Cross Media can launch ad campaigns across multiple channels using one single process.
“Well designed and implemented.”

Arvato Systems also won its Video Production Management System, a media asset management system designed for all aspects of digital media management in broadcasting and other industries.
“Appears very well conceived and designed, complete with an impressive list of big-name users. … installations are tailored to meet the needs of each facility, including interfaces to third-party capabilities, such as transcode engines.”

Pipeline Reporter Lighting KitAvid of Burlington, Mass., won for its scalable and fully customizable Interplay | MAM 5, a media asset management system that allows for access to content across multiple tiers of storage.
“MAM 5 enables organizations to ingest, import, manage, locate, edit and deliver media in a vendor-agnostic environment, whether on a departmental or global level, as well as analyze media usage and automate processes for maximum cost-efficiency. The platform is open, extensible and highly customizable; it integrates with Avid InterPlay and iNEWS for easy access to scripts, rundowns with associated video assets, and archived content. It also facilitates collaboration across divisional and geographic boundaries.”

BBS Lighting of Copenhagen won for the Pipeline Reporter Lighting Kit with remote phosphor LED fixtures delivering modeled lighting with a high CRI, to an on-camera reporter under a wide range of ambient lighting conditions. The footprint of each fixture is less than the computer mouse.
“Perfect, flexible addition to your lighting equipment, at popular prices. Guaranteed to become a favorite.”

Blackmagic Design of Melbourne, Blackmagic Mini Studio Camera Australia won for the Micro Studio Camera, a tiny Ultra HD camera designed for live production and includes built-in color correction and microphones and is fully controllable from a switcher. It will ship in July for $1,295.
“This is a very innovative concept, in that it is the world’s smallest fully functional studio camera. It connects via SDI to Blackmagic’s ATEM switcher, which allows control of iris, focus, color adjustment and zoom. It can be use as an auxiliary studio camera in multi-camera setup, or it could be used in a set to create a fully functional studio in a small space. It accepts Micro Four Thirds lenses.”

Blackmagic Design also won for its lightweight, miniaturized version of the URSA camera. The URSA mini offers 4.6K Super 35 image sensor with global shutter and 15 stops of range.
“More than just a line extension, it adds usability features of real value to actual users... and then there’s the price value.”

Bridge Technologies of Oslo, Norway, won for the Gold TS Reference, which monitors digital services and provides fault-tracking and goes beyond testing for critical conditions as required by the ETR290 standard.
Canon XC10
Canon U.S.A. of Melville, N.Y., won for the XC10 4K digital camcorder, a compact, lightweight camera capable of both 4K/full HD video and 12 Megapixel digital still photography.
“For the price and size this is a very high performing 4K camera. It’s equipped with a 12 megapixel sensor, has an almost incredible 12 stop dynamic range and allows users to extract and deliver 8 megapixel stills from video; 12 megapixel sensor, 10:1 zoom w. 2x digital teleconverter,12 stops of dynamic range; ideal for ENG and EFP.”

Melvile, N.Y.-based ChryonHego’s VistaCam is a new broadcast graphics technology offering a 180-degree in-studio video display.
“It was specifically developed for action sports coverage sets, as it’s based on the company’ s TRACAB optical player tracking system for covering playing surfaces from multiple angles. It also includes the ChyronHego’s Lyric64 graphics creation and playout platform.”

Clear-Com Agent-ICMClear-Com of Alameda, Calif., won for the Agent-IC, a mobile app that enables Eclipse-HX Matrix users to access from an iPhone or iPad over 3G, 4G or WiFi/IP networks, providing an intercom panel to connect studio and OB staffers.
“This is not the first product to turn an iPad type device into an intercom panel, but it does it without a separate server.”
Decimator Design DMON 16
Decimator Design of London won for its DMON-16S 1-to-16 channel multiviewer with SDI and HDMI outputs for 3G/HD/SD and custom layouts.
“Includes custom layouts, audio meters, graticules, dynamic UMDs and tallies.”
Editshare XStream EFS
EditShare of Boston won for the EditShare XStream EFS distributed scale-out file system developed for media intensive workflows to support large-scale workgroups requiring high-bandwidth, high-volume media ingest, transcoding, online collaborative editing and multiplatform distribution.
“One of the most cost-effective shared storage systems, includes built-in media management. Works with any NLE.”

Elemental Technologies of Portland, Ore., won for its Elemental Unified Linear TV Delivery software-defined video solutions that allow broadcasters to implement linear broadcast and multiscreen OTT services within a unified head-end supporting advanced system management and end-to-end redundancy.
ENCO Systems HotShot 2
Southfield, Mich.-based ENCO Systems won for HotShot 2, an instant audio playback package that allows users to access assets anywhere via a searchable database that supports all audio files and types.
“This version adds pre-labeled buttons on the control panel, much more storage—2 TB—and optional surround sound support. Sure to continue to be a standard in broadcasting.”

Ericsson of Stockholm, Sweden won for its Video Storage and Processing Platform, which integrates and virtualizes the storage and processing capabilities of COTS servers into a unified, software-based cloud infrastructure.
“Allows for seamless augmentation and replacement of legacy TV services with new cloud-based services. This crucial consumer application is powered by the Ericsson Video Storage and Processing Platform, a high performance, software-based infrastructure. Priced according to custom implementations.”

Evertz of Burlington, Ontario, Canada won for the DreamCatcher Advanced Replay System and Production Suite, an IP-based replay system with rapid editing capabilities combined with enhanced production workflow.
“Though the DreamCatcher is two years old, it has seen tremendous advances over the past year. For instance, it can be scaled much larger to allow a team of operators to work with many channels of materials.”

Evertz 7881 IRDEvertz also took a BoS for the EXE28-VSR offering 23 Tbps of switching capacity and 1,152 ports of 10GE signal processing per single chassis.
“This product provides incredible throughput. There seem to be no competing products that touch it.”

Evertz took a third BoS for its 7881IRD Platform, which receives, demodulates and decodes digital DVB-S/S2 satellite signals with support for MPEG2 and H.264/AVC, SD or HD encoded signals.

Florical Systems of Gainsville, Fla., won for its acquisition and distribution platform, which allows stations to acquire, QC, and catalog assets with complete metadata from a centralized location and distribute air-ready media.
“Places content acquisition, QC and related workflows into a network center (hub) for distribution to subordinate facilities—client hardware and automation system agnostic—in order to reduce individual manpower and technology requirements at the local facility level.”

Fluendo won for LongoMatch, a cross-platform that allows users to perform real-time analysis on video feeds of sport games. Fujinon UA80X9 LongoMatch is now available for download. Fluendo is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with U.S. offices in New York.
“This is a software package that allows sports teams to dissect and analyze their performance using recording, tagging and drawing features. Specialized use for sports training, but sophisticated and valuable to its target customers. It’s a small start-up. Price is by subscription, $500 per year or lifetime purchase.”

Fujifilm/Fujinon won for its 4K Ultra HD Premiere Series Lens line, which includes the UA80X9 field lens and the UA22x8 zoom lens. Both lenses will be available by August of 2015. Fujifilm is headquartered in Tokyo, with U.S. offices in Valhalla, N.Y.
“They developed a whole family of 4K lenses…quite an accomplishment.”

Grass Valley LDX 86 Universe Montreal-based Grass Valley won for its GV Convergent SDN, a control system that manages facility routing, maintaining familiar control interfaces as well as introducing new GUIs for configuration, management and control for the migration from SDI to IP infrastructures.
“Makes sure all IP signals are checked throughout a broadcast facility.”

Grass Valley won for its LDX 4K/6X HD Switchable Camera and K2 Dyno Universe Replay System, as well. Both combine to offer a 4K/XS-HD camera/replay chain, enabling any camera or replay position to be set up for regular HD, 4K or extreme-speed acquisition/replay.
“From a simple three imager 2/3-inch 4K camera last year, GV not only delivered a usable 2/3-inch 4K camera, but also gave it the ability to do high-speed HD, giving great flexibility to the mobile truck and other rental people.”

Harmonic of San Jose, Calif., won for Spectrum X Advance Media Server,which combines file, baseband and transport stream ingest with comprehensive integrated channel playout capabilities for production and playout applications.
“Simple broadcast playout server based on proven technology and can be upgraded to UHD.”

Imagine Communications of Dallas won for its LandmarkOSI 8.0, a cloud-based system that offers sales, CRM, traffic, billing and data analytics to broadcasters, networks and content distributors to manage station inventory and increase revenue.
“A next-gen cloud-based evolution of their existing traffic and ad sales and workflow modules; more streamlined, fewer keystrokes and w/refreshed HTML5 GUI to help facilities optimize revenue from their content inventory through all the various distribution channels—OTT, mobile, etc.”

Interra Systems won for Baton and Baton+ multiplatform, automated content verification systems for file-based SD, HD and mixed workflows. Baton is on its sixth version, while Baton+ adds workflow QC capabilities and data analysis. Interra Systems is housed in Cupertino, Calif.
“Very impressed with the depth of the products functionality and detail in its interface.”

iZotrope RX Loudness ControliZotope won for RX Loudness Control, designed for audio/video postproduction and broadcast workflows to comply with global loudness standards. The RX Loudness Control is currently available for pre-order from the Cambridge, Mass.-based iZotope.
“Really easy to use—it seems to essentially be a two-button-push process—and also generates a log as a .CSV file. Offers compliance with all current global loudness standards… ideal for audio novices.”

Matrox Monarch HDXMatrox won for Matrox Monarch HDX, a dual-channel H.264 encoder for broadcasters and webcasters that offers 3G-SDI and HDMI inputs with frame-synchronization. Matrox is located in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.
NewTek TalkShow VS-100 “Low cost even though it has selectable 3G-SDI and HDMI inputs accessible through a Web-based interface.”

NewTek won for TalkShow VS-100, a video calling production system that enhances Skype calls’ video and audio for use by television studios and live event producers. San Antonio, Texas-based NewTek is currently shipping TalkShow VS-100.

NNuvyo TabloNuvyyo of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada won for the Tablo OTA DVR.

Ooyala of Santa Clara, Calif., won for Ooyala IQ, a video analytics product that provides a complete view of video usage and profitability.

PESA Blade System Huntsville, Ala.’s PESA won for the PESA Blade System, an encoding and decoding system for streaming video, housed in a 2RU chassis that holds up to 10 cards and is controlled through PESA’s Cattrax for integrating IP-based video into baseband environments. The PESA Blade System, and the specifically designed C22 cards, will be available in the second quart of 2015.

Phabrix Qx Phabrix of Thatcham, England, won for Phabrix Qx, a complete solution for testing new UHDTV formats, which offers video and audio support with 12G physical layer analysis to test UHDTV1 and UHDTV2 infrastructures.
“Handles very high bandwidths. Awesome.”

Quantel and Snell, headquartered in Newbury, England, won for Media Biometrics, an intelligent monitoring by exception technology, allowing playout centers to automatically know they are sending the correct content across every channel.
“This is an interesting system that uses a watermarking-like technology and allows users to inspect content at virtually any point in the playout/transmission chain and determine such things an incorrect commercial, providing users with confidence that the correct content is being delivered where it has to go.”

Quantum of San Jose, Calif., won for Q-Cloud Archive, fully integrated into StorNext 5 for on-demand access to cloud storage with no additional hardware or software required.
“Primarily a hardware-centric storage solutions provider–offering a path to taming the cloud conundrum by integrating it as one component of a hybrid, application-driven infrastructure. The public cloud is treated as an off-site tier within a Quantum StorNext 5 environment.”

ScheduALL of Miami won for the ScheduALL Portal, an online platform for selling transmission feeds, managing transmission sales and automatically integrating online bookings into the ScheduALL financial management system, as well as providing real-time access to inventory.

Sennheiser AVX Sennheiser of Wedemark, German won for its AVX, a wireless microphone system for video recording with a self-configuring digital transmission system that automatically finds an interference-free channel to operate on and optimizes audio levels to match the sound source and camera input sensitivity. The AVX will be available in May 2015.
Small HD Sidefinder “Operates in the license-free 1.9 GHz range, with pretty much fully automatic operation—auto-pairing of mic device and receiver, auto frequency finding, auto interference avoidance. Aimed at videographers and DSLR (there’s an adaptor) users.”

SmallHD of Cary, N.C. won for the Sidefinder EVF, a fully featured HD viewfinder with a flip-out 1080p display that combines the advantages of a field monitor and an electronic viewfinder.
“A really clever fold-out LCD monitor that is affixed to an add-on optical viewfinder. Practical and handy.”

Sony HDC-4300 Tokyo’s Sony won for its HDC-4300 4K/HD Live camera system that uses high magnification wide zoom range lenses while maintaining the depth-of-field needed for sports broadcasting. It also uses three 2/3-inch 4K image sensors. A summer release is expected.
“The holy grail for broadcasters; well-executed, of course.”

Tektronix WFM 8300Tektronix of Beaverton, Ore., won for the WFM8300 Waveform Monitor, which provides flexible options and field-installable upgrade kits to monitor diverse video types, including Quad/Dual/Single link 3G/HD/SD SDI and Composite Analog Video.
“This is a new instrument designed from the ground up for 4K monitoring. This is achievable with a software upgrade, setting the device apart from other waveform monitors. The WFM8300 allows monitoring of video signals all the way from composite analog to 4K UHD, and as mentioned is field-upgradable to make it obsolescent-proof.”

Telemetrics TG4MTelemetrics of Mahwah, N.J. won for the TG4M, the latest in the line of TeleGlide Camera Track Systems and comes equipped with a newly designed, streamlined trolley and track that minimizes space requirements and supports straight and curved tracks. The system is also Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality ready.
“This systems is proving very popular and is quite a leap ahead of previous track solutions.”

Telestream of Nevada City, Calif., won for its VOD Producer DAI, which automates the assembly of CableLabs VOD content and provisions it for Dynamic Ad Insertion with fresh, relevant advertising for VOD assets in cable networks.
“The workflow is largely hands-free and cost-efficient; it also provides analytics and measurements tools to gauge the effectiveness, and is compatible with Nielsen watermarking.”

Linear Acoustic MT2000 The Telos Alliance of Clevland won for the Linear Acoustic MT2000 handheld, portable, diagnostic tool that can monitor and generate Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby E and PCM bitstreams.
“Impressive piece of kit—the Leatherman (as an alternative to the hackneyed Swiss Army Knife) of muxed audio analysis tools. Compact and eminently Triveni Digital Streamscope RM40 portable, capable of analyzing pretty much any embedded audio format, it supports a multiplicity of metering options and also houses a pair of speakers and headphone out. No broadcast tech should be without one.”

Triveni Digital of Princeton Junction, N.J. won for the StreamScope RM-40 DTV transport stream monitoring system, which allows operators to monitor closed-caption information for multiple TV services to comply with FCC regulations for closed-captions in TV programs.
“Great way to troubleshoot closed caption issues, FCC required nowadays.”

TVU Networks of Mountain View, Calif., won for the TVU Pack TM8200, a small, lightweight mobile wireless 3G/4G/LTE uplink with the ability to capture and transmit live HD video from on location, all in a backpack unit.
TVU Pack TM8200 (editor's note: This quote refers to the TVU One rather than the 8200. “An impressive < 3-pound bonded cellular module with LCD display screen, an internal battery with approximately one hour of run-time, and no protruding antennas. It features excellent specs and features in a 60 percent smaller form factor than TVU’s current model without sacrificing performance or video quality.”)

VisLink UltracoderVislink of Hemel Hempstead, England, won for its UltraCoder, a 1RU half rack H.265 encoder capable of encoding 4K, HD & SD video with up to 50 percent bit rate reduction compared to H.264.Vislnik’s U.S. offices are in Billerica, Mass., and Orange, Calif.
“There were several other encoders that did H.265, but none did 4K. Applauds to Vislink.”

Wohler iAM-MVAMWohler Technologies of Haywood, Calif., won for the iAM-MVAM, which decodes and displays MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 signals via Ethernet IP or BNC ASI inputs while enabling users to browse PAT, PMT, EIT and NIT data tables for each selected streams. The MPEG series monitors also include dual 3G/HD/SD-SDI inputs and audio monitoring with on-screen level monitors.
“Wohler does things right by giving this multi-screen monitor a touch-screen fingertip control. Features the same decoded HDMI and SDI video output as Wohler’s MPEG range of monitors, and has 1 Gbps IP input with full multicast support.”

London headquartered V-Nova’sPerseus is an encoder that offers compression, picture quality and processing speed improvement while reducing power consumption.
Volicon Observer OTT
Volicon of Burlington, Mass., won for the Observer OTT, an over-the-top A/V service monitoring solution that allows broadcasters to capture content delivered over IP networks to smartphones, tablets and computers and then verify integrity of the feed.

Wheatstone of New Bern, N.C., won for the IP-6, a large-format digital mixing console designed for large, multi-channel productions and fully compatible with the WheatNet-IP audio network.
“IP-64 has been designed to be really easy to use, even for a novice operator. (The company describes it as eliminating the daunting “sea of knobs.”) Nicely laid out, very easy to understand and operate, and the screens and OLEDs are clean and crisp. This should help the company introduce networked-connected TV consoles to a broader market, especially as IP networking appears to be catching on fast in broadcast TV. The touchscreen functionality—which responds to gestures popularized by Apple’s devices—can now also be added to Dimension Three.”

Wheatstone also won for the Gibraltar IP Mix Engine IP network interface that connects Wheatstone’s line of audio consoles directly into WheatNet-IP, an AES67 compatible IP audio network with broadcast audio tools and controls integrated into one network.
“Expands Wheatstone’sIP-64, Dimension Three, D-8EX, Series Four, and Series Two digital mixing consolesto 1,024 channels of audio, all with DSP. More importantly, it enables a gateway to IP networking, bringing processing, control and other functionality to every connected device, and provides access to every source and output on the network to the board operator.”

San Francisco-based WideOrbit won for its WO Programmatic TV programmatic marketplace that provides direct access to an ecosystem of buying partners and advertising clients for local TV stations to help generate revenue and advertising monetization.
“Manages and automates processes associated with ad sales, revenue optimization, inventory availability, opportunities, orders, etc. all the way through billing and account reconciliation.”