Get Ready for the Future of Media

Looking to set up hybrid operations or to transport your high-quality audio, video and data? Get news to air faster? Or enjoy total freedom for cinematic creativity? We invite you to download these informative whitepapers at your convenience.

Live Production

Sony brochure cover featuring a concert crowd and silhouetted audience member, with the text “Get the Cinematic Look for your Live Productions.”

An Easy Guide to DMF and MXL

Discover how Dynamic Media Facilities (DMF) and the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) are shaping the future of flexible, software-defined broadcast infrastructure. This accessible guide explains the key concepts, benefits and technologies behind more agile media production, helping broadcasters understand how shared resources, orchestration and efficient media exchange can transform workflows.

Cinematic Look for Live

Learn how you could bring a cinematic feel to your live productions. Explore new possibilities and read about how other pioneers use our VENICE, VENICE 2, BURANO, HDC-F5500, FX9, FX5 and FR7 cameras to create exceptional viewing experiences.

Sony brochure cover featuring a concert crowd and silhouetted audience member, with the text “Get the Cinematic Look for your Live Productions.”
Sony brochure cover featuring MLS-X1S Live Production Switcher graphic, highlighting its hybrid CPU, GPU and FPGA processing architecture for flexible live production.

MLS-X1S Live Production switcher: hybrid power, hyper flexibility

The Sony MLS-X1S live production switcher empowers broadcasters and content creators to deliver more dynamic live productions with greater efficiency and flexibility.

HXC-F790 & BRC-AM7: Even Better Together

Two powerful Sony cameras, one seamless production workflow — combining studio-quality performance with flexible PTZ operation.
Discover how the HXC-FZ90 and BRC-AM7 work together to deliver greater versatility, efficiency and creative freedom.

Sony “Even Better Together” guide featuring HXC-FZ90 and BRC-AM7 cameras for modern live production environments.
Sony and Nevion whitepaper cover, “Reimagining Broadcast Control”, featuring a blurred live performer and silhouetted concert audience.

Network and Resource Orchestration

This whitepaper explores how different productions are changing and why broadcast control systems must be reimagined to fully leverage modern production infrastructures.

CTO Roundtable

The CTO Round Table provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing technology leaders in media, offering practical lessons learned from those at the forefront of this exciting and ever-evolving industry. We express our gratitude to all CTOs who shared their valuable insights.

Sony CTO Roundtable report cover, “Perspectives on Media Transformation”, featuring a media professional using a tablet.
Sony Networked Live Hybrid Processing & Operations paper cover, featuring a professional broadcast camera overlooking a sports stadium.

Hybrid Processing and Operations

Discover the strategic shift toward hybrid live production, and practical solutions to industry challenges. This whitepaper offers a roadmap for transforming your approach and optimizing live production workflows.

Media Transport

Live production relies on transporting multiple signals, often limited by available bandwidth. Video compression helps but involves trade-offs in quality, latency, and compression ratio. This whitepaper explores common encoding methods and guides on choosing the right compression for various needs.

Sony and Nevion whitepaper cover, “Video Encoding in Live Broadcast Production”, featuring an audience with raised hands at a live event.
Sony and Nevion whitepaper cover, “IP Architecture for Live Production”, featuring a broadcast control team working at a large live event.

Whitepaper: IP Architecture For Live Production

Discover how IP technology is transforming live production workflows. This whitepaper offers a brief overview of common IP LAN architectures for live media production, highlighting their pros and cons.

Whitepaper: Infrastructure as the Backbone of Sustainable Live Production

Explore how modern infrastructure is enabling more sustainable live production practices across the media and broadcast industry. This whitepaper outlines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are shaping strategic decisions and how infrastructure can support these goals.

Sony and Nevion whitepaper cover, “Infrastructure as the Backbone of Sustainable Live Production”, featuring a cityscape with green network connections.
Sony and Nevion whitepaper cover, “Cloud Orchestration in a Hybrid Live Production World”, featuring a city skyline surrounded by low cloud.

Whitepaper: Cloud orchestration in a hybrid live production world

Discover how cloud technology is revolutionising broadcast workflows, from file-based processes to live production and playout. This whitepaper explores the specific requirements for cloud orchestration in live production environments and the benefits of hybrid production models.

News and Production Workflows

Break the news first with C3 Portal

Discover how the C3 Portal app turns smartphones into powerful, cost-effective broadcasting tools, enabling broadcasters to break news faster.

Sony “How to Win the Race to Air” graphic featuring a TV reporter speaking to camera with a microphone.

Imaging

Imaging Innovation graphic featuring a professional camera and an open brochure highlighting digital imaging solutions and applications.

Digital Innovation SDK Brochure

Learn how we empower developers to bring their visions to life in a more innovative, interconnected, and user-centric environment by providing Digital Imaging Solutions through SDK.

Virtual Production

Virtual Production Toolset

Camera and Display Plugin for Unreal Engine and the Color Calibrator application improve the quality and creativity of virtual production. Now updated with new features, some of them under a paid license.

Virtual production camera interface showing two humanoid figures in a digital environment, with on-screen camera controls and settings.