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France’s Canal+ has moved a step closer to taking over African pay-TV giant MultiChoice.

The Royal Television Society (RTS) has named Tia Shenton, Broadcast Engineer at Techex, as the winner of its annual RTS Young Technologist of the Year Award.

Following its installation at the National Image Archive of China News in Beijing, film scanning specialist Digital Film Technology (DFT) will be bringing its DFT Polar HQ 8K film scanner to Amsterdam.

Remote control specialist Ruwido has transformed a traditional remote control into a service-oriented platform, enabling communication, targeted promotion, and new revenue opportunities.

The new UHL-X40 is a particularly compact studio-quality 4K-UHD HDR camera. Based on Ikegami’s UHL-F4000 for aerial applications, the UHL-X40 head measures just 120x128x112mm, weighs 1.1kg and has very low power consumption, at 28W, 12V DC.

With innovation continuing apace across the media and entertainment industry, visitors to IBC2025 won’t want to miss the all-new Future Tech hub located in Hall 14.

Placing data-driven tools at the centre of its IBC showcase, Friend MTS will be focusing on new ways to visualise, report and act on anti-piracy insights.

Servers.com, an IaaS hosting platform, will be showcasing its support for live streaming specialist and fellow IBC exhibitor Ceeblue in its hardware-level experimentation. The hands-on testing allows Ceeblue to fine-tune the performance of its platform’s multifunctional, independent nodes, resulting in high-density transcode and packaging efficiency.

Myriad Cloud is a fully cloud-hosted radio playout platform built on Microsoft Azure. It delivers the full feature set of Broadcast Radio’s on-prem Myriad platform in a secure, scalable cloud environment.

On show from AEQ will be Xplorer Max, a wireless intercom terminal from AEQ based on high-performance digital radio technology.