The mc²36 xp desk is the latest addition to Lawo’s audio production console range. Physically identical to the mc²36 MkII, but without on-board processing, the mc²36 xp supports up to 256 DSP channels and offers Lawo’s acclaimed audio quality, IP network and processing redundancy, and eligibility for a multi-slice console array based around a single […]
Lawo is set to unveil the newest generation of its Power Core software-defined DSP mixing engine and I/O gateway – Power Core Rev3 – at NAB Show (April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center) in Booth C4111. Lawo says the 1RU Power Core platform „has been a favorite of broadcasters since its debut, thanks […]
Germany-based Lawo, a designer and manufacturer of network, video, audio, control, and monitoring technology, has established a CTO Office staffed with experts from all areas, dedicated to achieving the overall strategic goals of Lawo’s product and R&D organizations. The CTO Office drives innovation and marketable solutions for current and future developments, and ensures that the […]
Lawo, which designs and manufactures pioneering network, video, audio, control, and monitoring technology, today promoted Sam Schauland to executive vice president North America with overall responsibility for Lawo’s business there. “I am extremely excited to take on this new responsibility,” he says. “Lawo has grown tremendously in North America in the past years, thanks to […]
For Fox’s 10th Super Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., this Sunday, the broadcaster will integrate modular “flypacks” built for the FIFA World Cup along with new augmented reality graphics. Above, State Farm Stadium and the Fox pregame set (Christian Petersen/Getty Images).
Italy’s large public broadcaster, RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana, recently upgraded its Broadcast Production Center in Rome with a new control and signal distribution network based on Lawo IP infrastructure solutions. For its different production areas, RAI opted for a V__matrix solution for guaranteed performance in a distributed production environment. The installation, in five production galleries […]
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New software has just been released for Lawo’s award-winning diamond broadcast mixing console, Power Core DSP engine, and VisTool graphical control interface and On-Air Designer configuration software. Release 7.0.0 PL-001 adds numerous additions and refinements, including software support for the new Power Core AIOX (Audio I/O Extender) device, additional DSP and metering features, and several […]
New software has just been released for Lawo’s diamond broadcast mixing console, Power Core DSP engine, and VisTool graphical control interface and On-Air Designer configuration software. Release 7.0.0 PL-001 adds numerous additions and refinements, including software support for the new Power Core AIOX (Audio I/O Extender) device, additional DSP and metering features, and several new […]
Peter Lawo, founder of the German provider of broadcast and media technologies named after him, died on Nov. 24. The company said the engineer and entrepreneur founded today’s Lawo AG in 1970 and “laid the foundation for the company’s worldwide reputation and economic success with innovative audio products and uncompromising quality standards.” He was 85. […]
Most of ATSC 3.0’s audio delay in the U.S. is attributable to the same factors that have held back the rollout of UHD content: there is still a small base of NextGen TV-capable sets; the distribution chain from networks to stations is not fully ready for new formats; and broadcasters are somewhat hamstrung in experimenting with their 3.0 content because of FCC rules that require them to effectively simulcast their 1.0 programming. But despite that, progress is being made.
At IBC, Returning To A New Normal
In Amsterdam this week, there was plenty of talk about broadcasters’ ongoing transition to IP and the cloud, along with the supply chain issues and labor shortages hampering it, but most people were too grateful to see old friends, colleagues and clients to complain.
Whether offered as a standalone unit or combined with other components of the broadcast workflow, multiviewers are tackling a mix of formats and a higher volume of content to monitor. Above, Studio Berlin uses the Apantac KVM over IP solution for its multiviewers.
Cloud And IP Tech Dominate NAB Show Floor
With less hardware to demonstrate and a much-reduced exhibition floor footprint, the first post-pandemic NAB Show pointed the way to a future where software demos of cloud, IP and hybrid environments have become the new norm.
Lawo, a provider of video, audio, control and monitoring applications, says its IP infrastructure management platform, HOME, which was launched in April 2021, has been successfully deployed in more than 60 installations worldwide over the last year, including systems on redundant server clusters and single-leg systems on the embedded CPU of mc² consoles. HOME’s architecture […]
During a global online event, German IP broadcast manufacturer Lawo unveiled its new .edge IP video infrastructure platform at the NAB Show (through April 27 in Las Vegas) at Booth C6932. .edge’s compact 2RU housing accommodates up to four 25/100 GbE .edge processing blades and rear I/O plates with best-in-class signal conversion density. Hyper-density SDI/IP […]
In a move to strengthen the commitment to its North American customer base, Rastatt, Germany-based Lawo has moved Jamie Dunn, its chief commercial officer, to the United States. Lawo, a provider of network, video, audio, control and monitoring technology for TV and radio broadcast, performing arts, houses of worship, stadiums and corporate applications, has more […]
To celebrate five years of Lawo’s Vmatrix platform, which enables a wide range of video and audio workflows and supports the transition to a fully IP-based environment, Lawo has rolled out “significant” software-based enhancements. The updated vm_udx application turns V__matrix C100 software-defined processing blades into powerful up/down/cross converters with up to 8 paths of format […]
RTV Noord, a 24/7 regional public broadcaster based in Groningen which serves the northern part of The Netherlands, has just commissioned its brand-new Lawo mc²36 audio console and A__stage64 audio-over-IP node for the production of radio, TV and online content. In the wake of its online project, kicked off two years ago, the broadcaster’s editing […]
Media Mobil GmbH, specializing in the production and broadcast of sporting, cultural and entertainment events, has placed Lawo AoIP audio infrastructure at the heart of its new flagship OB van, dubbed UHD1. Lawo equipment onboard includes an mc²56 production console with 48 faders, with three WAN-capable A__stage 64 units serving as internal and external stage […]
Parliaments around the world have come to trust in Lawo Audio-over-IP technology for critical audio infrastructure. The latest to choose Lawo solutions is the Parliament of Singapore, which recently conducted a major technical upgrade, installing modern Lawo technology in its broadcast facilities. The Singapore Parliament’s Lawo installation includes a compact 32-fader mc²36MkII all-in-one audio console, […]
Lawo’s vm_avp app for the software-defined V__matrix C100 ecosystem has been enhanced again with major features, most of which are provided by license options. The new +ab_dsk license option adds video mixing and keying to the V__matrix offering. It unlocks 8 video mixing/keying instances @3G per vm_avp instance. Each instance can work in one of […]
Lawo, the German manufacturer of IP audio, video and control infrastructure solutions, has appointed Oliver Frenzel business development manager for its SMART line of IP network monitoring solutions. Frenzel, who holds a diploma in television engineering and electronic media, is already well-known within the Lawo Group and to Lawo customers in his previous roles as […]
For more than five years, Lawo’s V_matrix IP-broadcast core infrastructure ecosystem has allowed users to transform their installations into a flexible, future-proof production and/or delivery facility. Its C100 processing blades accommodate a wide range of software-defined video and audio workflows and also facilitate the transition to a fully IP-based environment with best-of-breed gateway functionality. To […]
During a special launch event on Nov. 16, streamed live from its studio at the company’s headquarters in Rastatt, Germany, Lawo unveiled its new Diamond broadcast console for radio and TV applications. This IP-native mixing system is based on the open AES67/RAVENNA audio-over-IP networking standards and also complies with ST2110-30/-31 and ST2022-7. Powered by the […]
Lawo, the German manufacturer of pioneering IP-based audio-video systems and control solutions, has appointed Klaus-Joerg Jasper senior sales director Middle East and CIS, immediately assuming responsibility for the additional sales activities in his new function. He will be supported by Alexander Yankovski, based in Moscow. Jasper brings with him more than 25 years of experience […]
Lawo has won two industry awards that recognize significant and promising new products and technologies. First was the 2021 NAB Show Product of the Year Award in the category IT Networking/Infrastructure & Securit for Lawo’s HOME Management Platform for IP-based Media Infrastructures. Launched in April, HOME is natively built on a cloud-ready microservices architecture, enabling […]
Broadcasters are embracing IP workflows as a “ramp to the cloud” and are still contending with variable costs and concerns over security, latency and interoperability, not to mention the different skills that labor must bring to bear. However, IP workflows can bring benefits like scalability, flexibility and security to broadcasters, such as NBCU Boston (above).
Cinevideo’s newest OB van, a 20-camera 4K OB Van, based on 12G SDI technology, uses Lawo’s VSM Broadcast Control System for overall management and operation in combination with a set of software and hardware panels as well as several GPIO units. Project management, installation and commissioning was carried out by ARET Video and Audio Engineering, […]
Scottish commercial broadcaster STV has undergone a full technical upgrade of its news production and sound control rooms and studio at its Glasgow HQ. Live programming is now on air, representing the U.K.’s first on-air broadcast installation of Lawo’s A_UHD Core (Phase 2) and 48-fader mc²56 MKIII console. STV’s broadcast channel reaches 3.2 million viewers […]
Broadcasters are calling on multiviewers to work in traditional, hybrid and IP environments, monitoring many different formats and high numbers of input and output signals. Vendors say they’re keeping up, while advancing in virtualization, compression and resolution. Above, TAG’s probing, monitoring and multiviewing platform for real-time video.
Television is slowly following radio into the adoption of audio over IP technology, but the transition has been hampered by infrastructure costs, the challenge of preventing audio latency and concerns over standards and security. Above, the University of Miami adopted Dante and AOIP for its live sports production workflows before COVID introduced the need for social distancing.
In a debut streamed live from the Jazz Club Karlsruhe, just a few minutes from Lawo headquarters in Rastatt, Germany, the company on Wednesday unveiled two new additions to the Lawo mixing portfolio: the Phase II of its incredibly powerful A__UHD Core audio engine, and the next generation of Lawo’s most compact, feature-filled all-in-one mixer: […]
Remotely working broadcasters are increasingly seeing the advantages of IP routing systems to easily control equipment and monitor feeds. Those who adopted IP routers prior to the pandemic were “well ahead of the game,” says one vendor. Above, the BBC’s SMPTE 2110 facility in Cardiff, Wales.
Michael Mueller, vice president of sales at Lawo North America, which designs and manufactures network, control, audio and video technology, died Sept. 26, after what the company said was “a brief, yet severe illness.” The company said he “brought a wealth of experience to his positions as U.S. sales and marketing manager, and later as […]
Broadcasters such as Sinclair and Vice are increasingly shifting playout functions to cloud platforms, seeking more flexibility and agility there and testing the waters with disaster recovery strategies, OTT channels and diginets. “In the cloud, you can build up a whole separate system in parallel, test it, then cut over to it,” says one consultant.
TVNewsCheck will consider how news organizations are turning remote production outposts into permanent at-home studios, while Sinclair will present episode two of a series on monetizing NextGen TV. SMPTE has two events this week, MFM continues a series of for-credit sessions for finance managers and SVG presents its annual Sports Content Management conference in virtual form. For more events, plus dates, times and registration links, visit TVNewsCheck’s Virtual Events Directory.
Webinars This Week: Sinclair/One Media, Vela, LAWO, Ross Video, Harmonic
Sinclair and its One Media sister company will kick off a series of virtual events about monetizing NextGen TV with ATSC 3.0 Monetization 101 on Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET. Vela will focus on Advances in Compliance Monitoring Tuesday and Wednesday at varying times. Ross Live considers Esports Arena Production on Tuesday. In the LAWO Lounge, Audio Mixing in the Hands of Automated TV Production will be playing July 8 at two different times. For TVNewsCheck’s full listing of virtual events this week and into the fall and winter, visit the Virtual Events Directory.
The pandemic created an opportunity to stress-test distributed and virtualized workflows right now that stations and networks were already considering for the future. The industry’s shift may now be ahead of schedule because of it. Above, NBC Universal’s Boston Media Center is one of the latest all-IP broadcast facilities.
The coronavirus pandemic has amped up the transition to cloud-based workflows as broadcasters have employed as many remote operations as possible. The next frontier: an acceleration of live production applications in the cloud. Above, an Amazon Web Services Outpost cloud server.
TVN Tech | CBC’s Montreal Greenfield Reveals IP Challenges
Francois Vaillant, executive director of engineering at CBC/Radio-Canada, says the group opted to build an IP-based broadcast center to move CBC/Radio-Canada into the future. The greenfield project was an opportunity to be more future-proof.
