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Sony Announces Latest IP, Cloud
Solutions and Imaging Products
For more llexible and scalable productions and workflows...

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ony announces a series of new
upgrades and innovations across
the full range of its professional media
products and solutions aligned with
leading industry trends focused on
IP, Cloud and Imaging. The market
transformation is fuelled by the need to
produce high quality content, from any
location, through scalable and efficient
workflows.
Takuma Wada, Head of Content
Creation
Solutions
Marketing,
Professional
Solutions
Company
(PSAP), Sony Corporation of Hong
Kong Limited commented: " for the
last year, in the face of unprecedented
circumstances, we at Sony have
been working steadily to match the
changes in market needs with useful
and pragmatic innovations. As remote,
distributed production coupled with
efficient workflows, becomes the defacto way of working, we will continue
to propose innovations based around
IP, Cloud and Imaging quality. These
are tools that enable customers to
transform their business. "
Bringing the power of IP to
any type of business
As pioneers in IP, Sony has
delivered IP Live production systems
to more than 120 facilities and OB
trucks worldwide as of April 2021,
including customers such as Polsat
and University of Alabama. Over the
last year, there has been an increased
demand for a more holistic endto-end IP approach. In parallel, the
appetite for workflow efficiency is
also pushing many broadcasters and
production companies to mandate an
IP infrastructure for their productions.

HDCE-RX50

With this context in mind, Sony
announces two compact IP extension
adapters, the HDCE-TX50 and the
HDCE-RX50, which provide the current
HDC camera line-up with IP capability
in 4K. With their high frame rate (HFR)
features allowing up to 6x slow motion
in HD when using with HDC-5500 and
an optional license HZC-HFR50, these
adapters will prove indispensable for
efficient resource and asset sharing
for existing HDC users. Both models
will be available in December 2021.
To respond to the appetite for IP
beyond 4K, Sony is also delighted to
announce its new 8K ST2110 Interface
option board and SNMP (Simple
Network
Management
Protocol)
Agent
Software, both to be
available in October
2021. Adding to the
CCU of the UHC-8300
8K camera system, the
new Interface board
UKCU-8001
enables
IP operation of the 8K
system. Thanks to the SNMP
Agent Software UZCU-SNMP80,
the board will allow operators to also
monitor IP operations and change

settings remotely. This new optional
board has already been adopted by
China Central Television (CCTV) in
response to increased demand for 8K
in China.
For customers looking to take
advantage of IP technology to
transform their production, Sony's
IP Live production system that now
includes Nevion's orchestration and
SDN control software VideoIPath,
provides the means to create reliable,
scalable and flexible IP systems for
convergent LAN/WAN infrastructures.
The new version 3.0 firmware release
of Sony's IP Live System Manager,
scheduled for May 2021, includes a
south-bound interface to VideoIPath,
thereby augmenting its existing
broadcast control capabilities
with VideoIPath's network
orchestration.
Sony's
NXLK-IP50Y and NXLKIP51Y SDI-IP converter
boards, which enable SDI
devices to be connected
to IP networks, will also
be upgraded in September
2021 to support NMOS
(Networked Media Open
Specifications),
enabling

them to be controlled by VideoIPath.
Both these enhancements will allow
customers to build more robust IP
systems with an optimized cost.
All of the above new offerings
support worldwide standards and
specifications including SMPTE ST 2110
and AMWA NMOS.
Expansion of Remote production
Sony
recently
expanded
the
XVS series of switchers with the
introduction of the XVS-G1, a
4K-ready, compact, entry-level option.
Now, the rest of the line-up (XVS9000, XVS-8000, XVS-7000 and XVS6000) is enhancing its

HDCE-TX50
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