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From the home of Dante and audio networking, today on itPlusTV, we're chatting to Glensound MD Marc Wilson. During the interview we are looking at the Glensound products that have allowed news reporters, journalists and commentators to work at home during the last 12 months or so with products like the Glensound Inferno commentary box. We'll also look at the Divine speaker, its developme...

On KitPlusTV News this week we feature Alison from Pebble after the launch of Pebble Control, Freddy from Nugen Audio tells us about Stereoizer Elements, Ciaran from Rohde & Schwarz announces the introduction of strategic new IP-related multiviewer functionalities within R&S®PRISMON and NVP joins forces with innovative start-up HiWay Media with Ivan Pintabona CTO of NVP telling us more. Mr...

The approach to building systems for broadcast and professional video workflows today is somewhat different to how it would have been only a few years ago. The technology driving the industry forward was evolving at an alarming rate, and then of course The Pandemic Effect and all of this means that flexibility, efficiency, reliability and support is that much more important. Today we’re joined by...

Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London recently embarked on an ambitious project with Altered Images and Newtek to keep the Gold Medal Competition from being missed... for the first time since 1915! So how did they do it, what technologies made it possible, how did the talent react and what will be the lasting legacy of introducing all of this because of the Pandemic threatening to stop t...

Today we're talking with John Johnson (JJ) from HHB about the last 12 months, remote working, Dolby Atmos and the industry trends they have seen. Changes in how people work might remain permanent. starting off as a bit of a scramble, physically getting voice over kit to the talent at home with go bags, stock limits of high quality mics, no engeineers on site, through to building a Dolby Atmos...

Compliance, logging, analysis isn’t only for the likes of the mainstream broadcasters and we should all know more about it if we’re distributing content. So on today's show we are talking with  is Peter Kavanagh from Polar Graphics about compliance logging, what it is and why as a broadcaster or service provider do I need it. We also cover the legal requirements and who do those rules apply t...

Welcome to the KitPlusTV weekly news round up. On this week's show we spot something that will interest vloggers, videographers and mobile journalists with the new Sennheiser MKE 400, an article for sports fans on olympic.org and Libec's new NX Series, a high performance lightweight video camera tripods.  Raj from Mediaproxy has a great enquiry, and solution, from a customer and Mr MXF l...

We all work with so much data now it’s genuinely impossible to keep track. Some old school resistance still believe that the filename and an excel spreadsheet is enough to keep track of all of your media assets and while this might work in some extremely simple cases, if you want the ability to reuse any of your footage in the future, and be able to locate it quickly and easily, you need a media a...

In the last 12 months, the UK has seen drastic changes in the live events and entertainment sector. With restrictions being relaxed this summer, we can expect to see the public return to their favourite events in some capacity. We know COVID has affected attendance, but how has it affected the technology behind delivering the world’s favourite pastimes? On the show today we are joined by Jesse Dob...

With all of us making more and more content, both for traditional broadcast and increasingly for streaming, getting a professional look, and standing out from the crowd has never been more important. On screen graphics are one the most important parts of a production to get right. In the old days, it was expensive and required specific workflows, the equipment was ‘engineered’ and while this equip...

Welcome to another weekly news show where we spotted an article that Sky News have conceived and launched a channel dedicated entirely to the George Floyd murder trial, in just nine days with the help of SingularLive. We also spotted a video entitled A Broadcasters Guide to Microservices from nxtEdition as well as a growing number of surveys, mainly on LinkedIn, for when people will be happy going...

Recently, Dalet announced significant performance and usability enhancements to their Dalet AmberFin platform. A go-to solution for content creators of any size, and these recent updates keep them ahead of new industry demands towards ‘higher quality’ on ‘more devices’ and more flexible workflows. Today we are joined by Eric Carson from Dalet AmberFin where we discuss the new enhancements, the ben...

A recent report entitled “Video Shouldn’t Cost the Earth” reports on the huge impact TV and video production has on climate change with some staggering stats and this timely and insightful study looks at the sustainability challenges facing TV and video production globally, why the industry is shaping up to meet them and how cloud native technologies can dramatically reduce the carbon impact from...

Today we're talking about the role of PTZ cameras in today’s production workflows, the benefits of  ‘auto tracking’ and probably a lot more with our guest Paul Richards from PTZ Optics who gives us an in-depth look at the PTZ cameras available and the brand new SuperJoy joystick controller. 30th March 2021

Welcome to the weekly news round up with our new "We Spotted" section where this week we feature plans to build a new film studio in the UK, an important Sony FX6 firmware update and some great content on the NAB Amplify website. On the show we also feature David from IST talking about STaaS, Daniel from Intinor tells us about a new user configurable delay feature (with some useful comme...

Audio note: you will hear odd noises at the start of this video - they are frogs, and they do quieten down as they become more interested in the conversation... We are all familiar with acronyms for cloud services such as SaaS, software as a service, maybe even PaaS, platform as a service, and maybe even IaaS, infrastructure as a service. But, stepping down from the cloud for today’s show, what el...

The shift towards OTT streaming - and particularly Direct to Consumer services - is not up for dispute. This was true before the pandemic – and even more so as a consequence of it.   80% of consumers in the US now subscribe to at least one paid streaming video service, according to Deloitte Insights, June 2020. This staggering number goes a long way to demonstrate the rapidly evolving media landsc...

KitPlusTV weekly news roundup, supported by MediaProxy is this week featuring Justin from Clear-Com with news of Agent IC, John from Black Box with two new products and Roy from BriteShot (film and TV lighting) who pivoted manufacturing to help prevent Covid-19, we never expected to be covering this on KitPlusTV! MrMXF looks at holistic video analytics with Nice People At Work and Ateme and Raj fr...

AJA's T-TAP® provides video professionals with an inexpensive, extremely compact device that utilizes the power of Thunderbolt™ to deliver high-quality 10-bit SD, HD and 2K video and embedded audio output from any compatible Mac or PC and on KitPlus TV today we talk to Bryce Button from AJA Video about the new release. 9th Mar 2021

On KitPlus TV today we talk with Jochen from Guntermann & Drunck GmbH about global access to your KVM systems thanks to the RemoteAccess-GATE. In the fast-moving digital world, the ability to link company sites around the world and access computer systems at different locations from anywhere is becoming more important than ever. As a stand-alone device, the RemoteAccess-GATE connects the two w...

Today on KitPlus TV we talk latency, what is latency, why do we have it and how can we improve it? Latency is one of the major challenges that content producers encounter when streaming from live events so we are also going to look at the role Ultra Low Latency plays in solving some of these challenges.  We are speaking to NativeWaves, a company that builds solutions to deliver multiview experienc...

On KitPlus TV news this week Kevin from Calrec tells us how Dome Productions are using their new Apollo digital audio console, Sophie from Nugen Audio promotes their Women in Audio series,  Ben from the IABM tells us about BaMLive this week and Mike from MO-SYS promotes what they are talking about at the HPA Tech Retreat, also on this week. James from Pronology talks about their latest tapeless wo...

In the words of SSL "Providing audio production services for outside broadcast events and sports has slowly been moving away from the traditional OB truck scenario as the industry battles with reduced budgets and – more recently – with the need to reduce engineers physically being in attendance. This has resulted in new solutions to manage audio productions: ‘remote’ and ‘at home’ production....

ne thing we really miss about trade shows, as most are now on hold due to the COVID restrictions, are the people we meet and once such person is our guest today who we met way back in 2008 when his channel was in its infancy. He is always filled with huge enthusiasm for the technical aspects of his channel, AIL TV, which is dedicated to educate, inform, entertain and bring news about people of Afr...

It's pretty obvious that the media & Entertainment industry is a male dominated industry and you can attend any industry trade show to see that first hand. We were staggered to see 93% of our YouTube viewers are male. We also know that broadcast engineering and technical courses at Universities also struggle to recruit female talent,  so what’s going wrong? Rise is a not-for-profit advoca...