TAG Video Systems, a leader in 100% software-based realtime media monitoring, multiviewing and quality control (QC), today announced the latest innovations to its platform ahead of IBC2026 (Stand 1.D33, RAI Amsterdam, 11–14 September). The updates build on TAG’s cloud and virtualization leadership and include support for the emerging MXL standard and containerized 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.
Advancing virtualization and cloud production
As media companies move more of their operations to virtualized and cloud environments, TAG continues to break down the barriers that keep production tied to on-premises hardware. TAG’s latest platform innovations focus on flexible, deploy-anywhere software and on the emerging standards that make cloud production real:
- Fully containerized. Both components of the platform (MCM, MCS) are now available as a Docker container, enabling fully automated, on-demand deployment across cloud and virtualized infrastructure – spin up monitoring where and when it’s needed, without dedicated appliances.
- MXL in production. TAG was among the first to support MXL workflows and has a full MXL implementation. At IBC, TAG will demonstrate advanced MXL interoperability with AWS (an initial version was first shown at NAB 2026) and will present a new collaborative MXL demo with Sony.
- Production-ready performance. 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, makes it practical to monitor and QC inside live and cloud production workflows, not just downstream.
- Massive software scale. Support for the Mellanox ConnectX-7 network card enables monitoring of 200 and 400 Gbps links, scaling to many more uncompressed ST 2110 video streams. Clear proof that software can meet the most demanding, high-density uncompressed environments.
Deepening automated QC and compliance
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 synchronization:
- Audio QC. A new set of audiovisual tools to automatically QC audio content, broadening quality assurance beyond video.
- OCR of DVB subtitles. Image-based DVB subtitles are converted to text through OCR, so they follow the same QC and display path as closed captions, strengthening accessibility and regulatory compliance monitoring.
- Hitomi Matchbox support. Integration with Hitomi Matchbox enables precise measurement of audio-to-video synchronization (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. TAG’s latest innovations will be shown at IBC2026, Stand 1.D33, RAI Amsterdam, 11–14 September 2026.
