Kayye’s Krystal Ball: 2024 Edition

Welcome to my 24th annual Kayye’s Krystal Ball! It’s been an honor to have written this for 24 straight years and even more of an honor for it to have so many thousands of readers annually — it’s almost always our most-read article of the year on rAVe [PUBS]. So, if you’re reading this right […]

Kayye’s Krystal Ball: 2024 Edition

IPMX Ready to be Ratified as AV-over-IP Standard

In a “landmark event” for the ProAV industry, the Video Services Forum (VSF), in collaboration with the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS), announced a milestone in the development of the Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) standards. Concluding a rigorous VSF testing event was held at the Matrox Video facility in Munich, where multiple manufacturers […]

IPMX Ready to be Ratified as AV-over-IP Standard

AIMS to Shine the Spotlight on IPMX at ISE 2024

BOTHELL, Wash. — Jan. 23, 2024 — The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that it will be highlighting the global broadcast and Pro AV market’s increasing adoption of Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX™) — a set of open standards-based protocols designed to ensure interoperability for AV-over-IP systems — at ISE 2024, taking place Jan. 30 […]

AIMS to Shine the Spotlight on IPMX at ISE 2024

AIMS Announces Plans for ISE 2024

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) announced that it will be highlighting the global broadcast and Pro AV market’s increasing adoption of Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) — a set of open standards-based protocols designed to ensure interoperability for AV-over-IP systems — at ISE 2024, taking place Jan. 30 to Feb. 2 in Barcelona. […]

AIMS Announces Plans for ISE 2024

AIMS Launches AIMS Education Library

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that the AIMS Education Library — a comprehensive online resource designed to facilitate learning about IP technology for the broadcast and ProAV industries — is now available at aimsalliance.org/document-library The AIMS Education Library offers an extensive database of all sessions presented or recorded by AIMS’ members […]

AIMS Launches AIMS Education Library

AIMS Alliance Adds Sencore, AVPro Edge and Astrodesign

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) announced that Astrodesign, AVPro Edge and Sencore have become AIMS members. The three companies join AIMS as the adoption of SMPTE ST 2110 continues to accelerate in the broadcast market and as the alliance’s Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) set of open standards and specifications gains momentum in […]

AIMS Alliance Adds Sencore, AVPro Edge and Astrodesign

Lumens Digital Optics Joins AIMS Alliance

Lumens Digital Optics has joined the AIMS Alliance (Alliance for IP Media Solutions), with a focus on the development of the forthcoming IPMX format. AIMS is a nonprofit trade alliance that is driving the adoption of open standard protocols for interoperability over IP in the media and entertainment (M&E) and professional audiovisual industries. AIMS promotes standards to help […]

Lumens Digital Optics Joins AIMS Alliance

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1130: Matrox Will Focus on AV-over-IP at InfoComm 2022; Including Both HDBaseT and IPMX

Gary was joined on this pre-InfoComm 2022 videocast with Matrox‘s Vice President of Sales – AV/IT Group; Americas & Asia Pacific, Samuel Recine. Matrox has its own booth (N1563) at the show but will also be demonstrating new encoding and decoding products in the IPMX/AIMS Alliance booth as well as the HDBaseT booth. It’s all […]

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1130: Matrox Will Focus on AV-over-IP at InfoComm 2022; Including Both HDBaseT and IPMX

AIMS Alliance To Host First Interoperability Demonstration of IPMX

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) will host its first live interoperability demonstration of Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) — a set of standards-based protocols designed to ensure interoperability for AV-over-IP — at InfoComm 2022, June 8-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Booth W106. The demo will feature networking equipment and hardware […]

AIMS Alliance To Host First Interoperability Demonstration of IPMX

Barco Joins AIMS Alliance, Will Support IPMX AV-Over-IP Standard

Barco announced today that it has become a member of the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). This is a giant boost for the proposed AV-over-IP standard. With AIMS’ new Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) set of open standards and specifications gaining traction, the Barco membership means you will likely see IPMX (the AIMS proposed […]

Barco Joins AIMS Alliance, Will Support IPMX AV-Over-IP Standard

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1100: Matrox Will Use ISE 2022 to Show Its ConvertIP AV-over-IP Ecosystem

Matrox took the lead in embracing the SMPTE 2110 standard (what’s currently used in broadcast video) for ProAV AV-over-IP and helped form the AIMS Alliance. AIMS, in turn, created the IPMX proposed standard for sending AV-over-IP that hopes to be ratified in late 2022, becoming the first and only AV-over-IP standard for ProAV installs. However, Matrox’s ConvertIP does more than that — it […]

Rants & rAVes — Episode 1100: Matrox Will Use ISE 2022 to Show Its ConvertIP AV-over-IP Ecosystem

Alliance for IP Media Solutions Announces Support for Inclusive Language Shift in AV Industry

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) announced its support for the industry’s shift to more inclusive language in standards and engineering documents. The alliance welcomes efforts by standards bodies and other organizations to ensure that the language used to craft such documents is free from stereotypes, subtle discrimination and demeaning or exclusionary expressions. AIMS is […]

Alliance for IP Media Solutions Announces Support for Inclusive Language Shift in AV Industry

AIMS Announces Newly Elected 2020-21 Board of Directors

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) announced a newly elected 2020-21 board of directors that will lead the organization’s effort toward a standards-based IP infrastructure for professional media. AIMS Chairman of the Board Michael Cronk (Grass Valley), Vice Chair Steve Reynolds (Imagine Communications) and Chief Financial Officer Andreas Hilmer (Lawo) were reelected to their […]

AIMS Announces Newly Elected 2020-21 Board of Directors

Want to Learn More About the Industry’s Only Proposed AV-over-IP Standard, IPMX?

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) launched a new website Monday dedicated to the alliance’s Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) proposed set of open standards and specifications. “The IPMX website makes it easy for anyone to learn more about this exciting approach to AV over IP,” said David Chiappini, working group chair, Pro AV […]

Want to Learn More About the Industry’s Only Proposed AV-over-IP Standard, IPMX?

ProAV Day of LAVNCH WEEK 2.0: CX, Crystal Balls and a Hot Debate on AV-over-IP

ProAV is at a crossroads today. And it’s not just because so many of us are working from home and don’t know what the commercial/business space will look like in three months, even with well-researched predictions. Big innovations in ProAV were happening long before COVID-19, but the pandemic has expedited — expedited like the first […]

ProAV Day of LAVNCH WEEK 2.0: CX, Crystal Balls and a Hot Debate on AV-over-IP