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Aiming to avoid production bottlenecks across IP, live production and data management, AJA has unveiled its latest Kona IP25 video and audio I/O card at IBC, alongside a range of product innovations.

Akamai’s new Media Cloud is aimed firmly at competing with AWS Elemental, using a ‘partners first’ approach that provides services from many different vendors (its Qualified Compute Partners include Yospace, EZDRM, Unified Streaming and Scalstrm), so users have a choice.

In today’s issue we bring you all the key conversations from the inaugural World Skills Café. Russell Trafford-Jones, Chair of the IET Media Technical Network, talks AI, security and this year’s John Logie Baird Lectures, while SMPTE President Renard Jenkins shares the association’s priority topics, including authentication and industry skills requirements. We also identify key highlights from today’s extensive content programme and share all the latest tech news from the IBC Showfloor.

The integration of the Digital TV Group’s (DTG) DVB-I Test Suite into Kineton’s MediaCert platform is being demonstrated in Hall 1.

With the introduction of its new 8550A Professional Reference Headphones at IBC, sound specialist Genelec has not only expanded the UNIO ecosystem it introduced at IBC 2023, but says it provides an “even more seamless bridge between professional in-room loudspeaker and personal headphone monitoring.”

PAG’s latest 150Wh MPL15 battery is claimed to offer more output options than any other broadcast camera battery, to power cameras, production accessories and personal devices.

Viltrox has extended its Luna range of 10x zoom cine lenses, with the new 42-420mm T5.6 model, which will cost about €10,000, and can cover a 60mm frame, making it suitable for high-end film making.

The key to a sound technology strategy is making the right purchasing decisions in the face of huge pressures, according to Rob Ambrose, Co-founder, Caretta Research, at the IBC Conference session ‘Building the Future of Tech’. “Market data shows there is still pressure in the way consumption habits are changing and how it’s feeding into advertising revenues,” added Ambrose. 

Former CEO of BBC Studios Productions Ralph Lee has been appointed as BAFTA albert’s first Chair. This newly created voluntary non-executive role is part of a new governance structure established following an organisational review completed in 2023.

The networking standard NDI is now capable of meeting the needs of even high-end broadcasts, thanks to improvements in the latest NDI 6, which includes support for 10-bit HDR.