Partnership empowers sports broadcasters and networks to maximize digital reach and seamlessly manage IP channel distribution at scale, demonstrated for the first time at NAB Show 2025.
Leader Instruments Corporation has unveiled a new tool for comprehensive NDI signal troubleshooting and monitoring. The software application will be equally valuable to broadcasters and production companies, systems integrators verifying network topographies, and device manufacturers who need a quick and simple way to check NDI streams.
Appear unveils VX Media Gateway at NAB 2025: A software solution for secure, scalable, and future-proofed media transport.
The technology required to get high quality content from the venue to the viewer for live sports production remains an area of intense research and development, so there will be plenty of innovation and expertise in this area on the NAB 2025 show floor.
In a significant step towards planning first commercial service across the European continent, the 5G Broadcast Strategic Task Force (5BSTF) – comprising Media Broadcast (Germany), TDF (France), Cordiant Capital (UK), Emitel (Poland), CRA (Czech Republic), BTCY (Belgium), and RAI (Italy), supported by Rohde & Schwarz (Germany), is driving the development of a joint commercial roadmap across six European markets representing more than 270 million people.
Automation, interoperability, and scaling are overarching themes at NAB 2025, associated with continued progression of hybrid video services that are tilting more and more towards streaming. For monitoring and compliance, this means increasing integration across the whole workflow and content lifecycle, with boundaries between quality of playout and the underlying content continuing to blur. AI is naturally featuring much more than even a year ago at almost all levels, now being employed from high level quality control down to deep content analysis of value for personalization as well as compliance monitoring.
At NAB Show 2025, Appear is unveiling the X5, a powerful and cost-efficient extension of its X Platform, designed to provide unparalleled flexibility and performance for broadcasters, streaming platforms, and media operators.
Hybrid workflows combining cloud and on-premise systems, and application of AI for personalization, are major streaming themes for NAB 2025. There is an even stronger focus on remote production than at previous shows, especially for live sports. Security of live streams remains an ongoing challenge being addressed by vendors in that field, while mobile delivery to smartphones via 5G Broadcast has also risen up the agenda.
