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Today on KitPlus TV we welcome back Kriss Hampton from Holdan where we look at the latest Roland Switcher, the V160HD.  If you've not come across the term 'hybrid event switcher' before then this is the video for you where audiences can be reached whether they are live or online. This is nothing new you may be saying? Agreed, and we discuss the USP's of what Roland offer, the c...

On KitPlus TV today we catch up with Felix Knight from Lightware Visual Engineering, the company who produced the world's first DVI matrix switcher, to find out why matrix switchers really are interesting .....no.... really, they are! In the recent news we also reported on how Lightware have worked with ‘Epic Games London Innovation Lab’ as they work towards specifying a standard design for e...

On KitPlus TV this week we start with news of the next KitPlus Show which will be held at Twickenham Stadium on 14th September 2021, more info on this at kitplusshow.co.uk, we also spotted Sony are offering zero % finance until end of September and there's a new £1 million virtual studio set to open its doors in Wakefield, Yorkshire, later this year. V-Nova has announced validation of its cod...

Welcome back to the show Kriss Hampton from Holdan to run through the latest additions and developments in the Atomos range of products. NinjaV has the AtomX CAST, the new NinjaV+ that supports 8k, if you want that. The Shinobi 7 on camera 7 inch monitor that is more than just 2 inches bigger than the 5 inch. Finally we covered the NEON Precision range that put Atomos firmly in the high end market...

Today we're chatting with Cindy Zeulsdorf about why she wrote the new book Seven Marketing Basics. Targeted at the Broadcast, Media and entertainment technology sector her book will help you find those actions that can be automated and help you do less, and sell more.  If you have not heard about the 80/20 rule, you can get in touch with Cindy and get her book free of charge, or buy the paper...

On KitPlus TV news this week we report on Shure who have announced their 2021 pro audio roadshow, with one leg of their tour being the KitPlus Show at Twickenham on 14th September, Singular.live becomes the first cloud-based graphics platform to be used by ITV and TVU Networks has announced a partnership with Blackbird to add access to their real-time editing tools into the ‘TVU Producer’ cloud-ba...

With us on the show today is Brian Cantwell from Soho Editors where we discuss the current freelance statistics and the challenges the industry faces today and in the future. We also discuss how the pandemic has expedited remote working and the pros and cons this has for creative people.  5th August 2021

Today we're talking NDI® which has enabled us to easily get high quality images over our local IP network and one of the first companies to offer a wide range of solutions, from PTZ cameras to little converter boxes was BirdDog. To discuss the latest releases we are talking with Eamon Drew where we cover NDI®5, BirdDog PLAY (their 4k NDI® player), the recently announced CLOUD CONNECT, the SDM...

In the news this week we report on an integration between the GB Labs’ storage platforms and the Archiware P5 data management solution, Magewell announce its new Cloud multi-device management software and Mo-Sys Engineering launch its new ‘Onset VP Services office’ based in Los Angeles.  Julian from Papertown show how they  quickly and accurately created an ambitious virtual production project fea...

JVC has unveiled three new 4K and HD PTZ remote cameras, designed for reliable remote IP production for education, corporate, live events and sport applications and today we are talking with John Kelly from JVC about them. The new 4K KY-PZ400N and HD KY-PZ200N cameras provide optimal streaming image quality and performance and are equipped with NDI®|HX and SRT streaming, H.265/H.264/MJPEG encoding...

Solid State Logic has announced the latest feature release for their ‘System T’ broadcast platform and core to the release is support of the next generation TE1 and TE2 Tempest audio engines.  These compact engines provide a flexible model for managing production capacity, allowing users to expand their processing requirements with the addition of new software ‘processing’ licenses. With the inclu...

In this week's KitPlus Weekly news round up Medialogy Broadcast have completed a high-speed data store based on a 64 terabyte GB Labs FastNAS F-16 server and Dominic from GB Labs tell us about UnifyHub and a webinar coming up soon (www.kitplus.com/gblabs) Pixel Power delivers a StreamMaster BRAND software-defined graphics engine to WDSC-TV, Argosy launches Hyperflex, a new design of SMPTE cam...

At the recent KitPlus Show, in MediaCityUK, we met Kevin Leach who was exhibiting for In:Quality.  Building on the success of their browser based SIP interface ipDTL, they've recently launched a range of low cost hardware codecs, that take advantage of the Opus audio codec and SIP. Kevin joins us on the show today to break down a few abbreviations, explain SIP and ipDTL what makes the new dev...

There are not many companies out there that are 45 years old but we’re delighted to be talking to one today and the anniversary they are celebrating this year. On the show with us is Iain Elliott from Canford and we'll be discussing the origins of his company,  the journey, the 'lifers' and their strategy for the future.  20th July 2021

On the KitPlus TV news round-up this week we look at LiveU’s multi-camera, remote production solution, the Singular.live and easylive.io partnership with Sky News and the motion capture solutions and technology provider OptiTrack release of Motive 3.0. 1:54 MrMXF tells us why the new Teradek Bolt is not a gadget, we hear about the latest broadcaster to take advantage of the benefits of IP with Cal...

Today we speak with Andy Slightham of Tally Technologies who gave us some background on why Tally is so important and how it enhances the programme quality if used correctly, in particular, it’s benefits, uses and available accessories and the various scenarios tally is being used in that we may not have thought it to be useful? We know Tally is useful for presenters but we also look at features t...

We're joined once again today by Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough this time looking at Leapfrog Technology, and what it really means, as well story centric tools for news and remote production. Blackbird have been working on cloud technology for many years, so is their technology, which is being adopted and integrated into the heart of many large broadcaster's workflows making a difference? M...

We begin the news round up this week with what exhibitors at the recent KitPlus Show thought of being back face-to-face at last, with big thanks to our partners Pebble, Exhibition Freighting, Manor Marketing and MediaCityUK for their continuing support in what was our 10th year in Salford. In the news this week is ATEME who have announced it has integrated Dolby Vision® HDR and Dolby Atmos® immers...

Rise supports women from all backgrounds in the broadcast technology sector with a goal to ensure that there is a diverse and gender balanced workforce across specific areas of engineering , technical operations, sales, marketing and business. On KitPlusTV today we are chatting with Nic Kemp about the Rise Mentoring scheme, what it aims to do, who it supports and the difference it makes to the ind...

On KitPlusTV today we are chatting to someone with a live streaming product range spanning local sports matches to house of worship services. Graham Sharp from BroadcastPix is here to talk about how the last 12 months has reshaped their strategy, the key trends emerging as we start to come out of the pandemic and what technologies they are monitoring that will have big impact on the Broadcast indu...

Today on the show we’re are honing in on audio over IP specifically looking at the coming of video over IP,  Dante Domaine Manager and a broad look at how it is used.  Some interesting DOLBY Atmos installations, including Apple Spatial Audio with DOLBY Atmos on the Air Pod Pro or Air Pod Max. To guide us through we are chatting with JJ from HHB. 1st July 2021

If you’re a professional looking for work, or if you’re looking to crew a production, then today's KitPlus TV show is for you! As the UK’s leading membership organisation for those working in production the Production Guild helps bring film and TV drama professionals together through events, seminars and skills development and we are joined by Lyndsay Duthie to tell us all about it! 30th June...

We speak to many companies but not many that were formed 128 years ago in 1893, where the optical manager of T. Cooke and Sons of York, makers of astronomical telescopes,  set about eliminating the optical distortion at the outer edges of lenses, the Cooke Triplet was born, and as they say, the rest is history. Today on the show, to fill us in on everything since then,  we are speaking with Carey...

On this week's KitPlus TV news round up we look at Shure's new Axient Digital ADX5D Portable Receiver, Mo-Sys™ introducing on-set virtual production services for the Los Angeles market and  CH4 booking studio space again at dock10 this autumn. MrMXF explores the news on Cleanfeed, a collaboration tool for high definition, live audio and recording, Pebble and Nevion announce a new integra...

Bandwidth and bit rate is something many of us have become more familiar with over the last year where we may have been relying on home internet to work with. The more bandwidth you have the better bit rate you’ll be able to stream and the better viewing experience everyone gets. But if you’re remote and maybe working with cellular or low bandwidth supply then if you don’t want to compromise your...