TAG Video Systems will showcase the latest innovations to its platform at IBC2026 (stand 1.D33). The updates build on TAG’s cloud and virtualisation leadership and include support for the emerging MXL standard and containerised deployment, both aimed at making full cloud production a practical reality, along with deeper automated audio, subtitle and lip-sync QC that broadcast customers rely on regularly.
The latest platform innovations focus on flexible, deploy-anywhere software and on the emerging standards that make cloud production real. For example, both components of the platform (MCM, MCS) are now available as a Docker container, enabling fully automated, on-demand deployment across cloud and virtualised infrastructure. This means users can spin up monitoring where and when it’s needed, without dedicated appliances.
In addition, reduced latency on ST 2110 streams – as low as 1.5 frames at 50fps and 2 frames at 59.94fps (MCM input to MCM output), together with CIR (Cyclic Intra Refresh) encoding on MCM output, means it is now practical to monitor and QC inside live and cloud production workflows, not just downstream.
The addition of support for the Mellanox ConnectX-7 network card enables monitoring of 200 and 400Gbps links, scaling to many more uncompressed ST 2110 video streams. This confirms that software can meet the most demanding, high-density uncompressed environments.
The company will also demonstrate advanced MXL interoperability with AWS and will present a new collaborative MXL demo with Sony.
Alongside its cloud momentum, TAG continues to invest in quality and compliance needs of its core customers, extending automated checks beyond video into audio, subtitles and synchronisation. Updates include a new set of audiovisual tools to automatically QC audio content, broadening quality assurance beyond video; image-based DVB subtitles that are converted to text through OCR, so they follow the same QC and display path as closed captions, strengthening accessibility and regulatory compliance monitoring; and integration with Hitomi Matchbox, which enables precise measurement of audio-to-video synchronisation (lip-sync) across the facility.
Additional enhancements in this release include support for the alpha (transparency) channel in NDI streams and automated test-pattern loopback detection and comparison.
“Our customers are re-architecting how they produce content. They’re moving off dedicated hardware, into containers, into the cloud, with open approaches like MXL leading the way. For their operations, that means monitoring that spins up anywhere and scales to formats and volumes that used to require a truckload of appliances. It also brings a meaningful reduction in the hardware footprint that used to define the cost of doing this. At IBC, we’re showing exactly what that looks like live: software-defined monitoring, at scale, with none of the dedicated boxes,” said Michael Demb, VP of product strategy, TAG Video Systems.
