LiveU, a specialist in video-over-bonded-IP transmission, has announced a partnership with Sony Corporation. Through this collaboration, LiveU aims to maximise the credibility, efficiency, and immediacy of customers’ content by providing tools that enable agile news and production workflows. At IBC2025, Sony introduced the LiveU TX1, a compact field transmission unit designed specifically for Sony’s professional […]
Sony Pictures Entertainment Germany has partnered with Little Dot Studios to launch and manage a suite of six new German-language YouTube channels. The new channels will be rolled out in a phased launch, with the first channel, Absolute Action – featuring crime, thriller and western movies, now live. The remaining five channels: Comfy Movies – […]
Crunchyroll, Aniplex and Sony Pictures’ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle delivered a £3.4 million (€3.9m) box office in its opening weekend, breaking the record for highest earning for an anime film in the UK & Ireland. The film opened on September 12th across nearly 500 screens with an average of £7,000 per screen […]
The BBC Research & Development Department and Sony are taking their collaboration aimed at addressing the growing concerns surrounding synthetic content and its impact on the trustworthiness of news-related content, a step further. This is part of a broader initiative involving key industry players, under the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) committee. The […]
DTS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of entertainment technology company Xperi, and IMAX have announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) plans to expand their catalogue of IMAX Enhanced content encoded in DTS:X immersive sound, adding hundreds of titles to their existing catalogue of Sony Pictures films available in the format during their respective home entertainment windows. Select […]
Nevion, a Sony Group Company, announced the latest upgrade to its software-defined media node Virtuoso includes support for hardware-accelerated SRT (Secure Reliable Transport). The addition of this transport protection protocol to the existing low-latency HEVC compression functionality enables broadcasters to leverage unmanaged networks, including the Internet, for applications such as connectivity back-up or GCCG (ground-to-cloud-cloud-to-ground) […]
ITN, the UK broadcaster, has announced a significant investment in the Sony scalable live production MLS-X1 switcher. This strategic move marks a pivotal step in ITN’s transition towards an IP-defined, software-first approach, enhancing its production capabilities for the future. The decision to invest in the MLS-X1 switcher comes as ITN undergoes a review of its […]
As part of its continued commitment to the Los Angeles market, Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a technology and services provider for media creatives and content owners, opened a 5,000 square-foot-facility in Burbank. The new space features a Dolby Atmos demo theatre, a video production space with a hard cyc wall, a large video conferencing room, […]
Gaurav Banerjee, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI)’s Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, has been appointed as Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India’s new Chairman with immediate effect. He takes over from Shashi Sinha, Executive Chairman of IPG Mediabrands India, who served as BARC India’s chairman for over three years. Banerjee has over two decades […]
From now until August 17th, Virgin Media is giving its TV customers access to 14 South Asian TV channels at no extra cost in celebration of South Asian Heritage Month. The TV channels included are part of Virgin Media’s Asian Mela bundle, which normally costs £12 per month and offers customers access to thousands of […]