FM in Smart Phones

From the packed technical sessions at the Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (BEIT) to a hands-on demo right on the NAB Show floor, BPS™ was the buzzword in Las Vegas. If you didn’t hear about it then, now’s your chance to catch up.

In today’s media landscape, teams face growing pressure to create, adapt and deliver content faster, often with fewer resources. Yet many are still stuck with fragmented tools, manual processes and disconnected data that limit their agility. Flomenco was built to change that. As a 2025 NAB PILOT Innovation Challenge winner, Flomenco was proud to introduce an expansion of our product into an AI-powered media automation platform that simplifies operations, accelerates workflows and helps teams get more value from their media.

Broadcast infrastructures have gone IP-first: cameras plug into network switches, video routers run in software and production engines live on Ethernet. Yet audio capture still relies on analog cables, patch bays and rack gear. The traditional chain (mic → cable → preamp → A/D → network interface) delivers stereo in a handful of locations today, but it cannot scale to immersive formats or hard-to-reach placements without rewiring every time you add channels or change layouts. Viewers now take surround sound for granted - Dolby Atmos and other immersive formats are built into modern TVs, soundbars and headsets. Flat stereo feels outdated, and legacy workflows simply cannot keep pace.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and latakoo won the NAB Technology Innovation Award at the 2025 NAB Show. SwRI won for their demonstration of “BEAMoCap: Biomechanical Evaluation and Animation Motion Capture” and latakoo won for their demonstration of "Generative Video Codec."