New Descript’s AI-Eye Contact feature helps to read the script without teleprompter and to be in eye contact with audience behind the camera. The main question is Will it kill the teleprompter at all? AI-Eye Contact is currently in beta so I thought I’d test it.

After getting announced back in June, Sony has finally released Version 4.0 Firmware for the FX6. FX6 Version 4.0 increases the capabilities of this camera by adding new features including a de-squeeze function for anamorphic lenses and expanded autofocus capabilities in S&Q mode. This update is the direct result of feedback from the filmmaking community.

Sky Racing Queensland recently had a requirement to upgrade all of their OB facilities, including outside broadcast, production and speciality cameras, and selected a range of Panasonic professional broadcast PTZ cameras, equipment and solutions to best meet their requirements.

Ateme has introduced cloud-native bridge functionality for raw content processing. This addition to its TITAN universal gateway empowers content owners and broadcasters with unparalleled flexibility.

AJA Video Systems unveiled Mini-Config v2.26.6 Software with 4K/2K 48/47.95 frame rate support for the 12G-AM and 12G-AMA, as well as minor maintenance fixes to the Hi5-4K-Plus. It is highly recommended that you update the firmware to avoid any potential issues.

LYNX Technik, provider of modular signal processing interfaces, has expanded its yellobrik lineup with two new AES and Analog audio embedders/deembedders, both supporting SDI formats up to 12G.

Radio Marca is a Spanish radio station that broadcasts sports information 24 hours a day. For sports coverage in stadiums, Radio Marca has a lot of AEQ Alio equipment and lately a lot of AEQ Talent with more than 40 units deployed right now with their journalists.

Actus Digital, the premier solutions provider for compliance logging and intelligent broadcast and OTT monitoring, will introduce two new products along with enhancements to its Intelligent Monitoring Platform. Additions and improvements to the Actus portfolio benefit a broad range of users: broadcasters, OTT providers, cable, satellite, and playout operators, government, and news agencies.

Ateme and Foxtel have announced the deployment of a standards conversion service enabling Australians to enjoy TV content from around the world. The Foxtel-owned service, based on Ateme’s content acquisition and distribution solutions through the TITAN suite, acquires content from around the world and converts it to Australian TV standards nationwide via two data centers in Sydney.

Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, is enabling more efficient creative production workflows and overall management of media supply chains, content catalog and archives with major enhancements to its award-winning, cloud-native Dalet Flex platform. The latest long-term support (LTS) release brings the following capabilities that provide an enhanced user experience and accelerate content movement, editing and delivery across viewer platforms.