Vector 3 is proud to announce the first installation of the new 5.0 version of VBox News for Live News Production. VBox News 5.0 is here to redefine newsroom efficiency, flexibility, and control, delivering an unprecedented leap forward for broadcasters worldwide. Packed with cutting-edge innovations, this release empowers newsrooms to manage live broadcasts like never before—faster, smoother, and with complete confidence.
Revolutionizing Live News Production
News never stops, and neither should a newsroom. With VBox News 5.0, automation meets ultimate flexibility, allowing editors, producers, and journalists to focus on what truly matters—delivering impactful stories with its key game-changing features:
- Double Playlist Control – Manage multiple rundowns and spontaneous clips simultaneously, offering unmatched flexibility for live programming.
- Shotbox for Instant Playback – Speed is everything in live news, and with dedicated keyboard support, triggering video clips is faster and more intuitive than ever.
- On-Air Manual Control & Voiceover Countdowns – Real-time adjustments let operators pause, stop, or restart content on the fly—because live TV is unpredictable.
- Next-Level Integration – Enhanced MOS and MAM compatibility streamlines newsroom workflows, syncing stories, graphics, and assets in real time.
- HTML5 Plugin for Octopus – Journalists can now place graphics, captions, and elements directly into the rundown, executed flawlessly during playback.
- Videowall Control at Your Fingertips – Synchronize auxiliary videos for dynamic, eye-catching studio presentations with ease.
Unbreakable Reliability, Built for Live Broadcasts
Newsrooms thrive on precision and dependability, and VBox News 5.0 delivers with its fail-proof redundancy system. Even in high-pressure environments, seamless transitions between main and backup systems ensure that your broadcast never skips a beat.
A Legacy of Innovation, Reinvented for the Future
For over three decades, VBox News has been at the forefront of newsroom technology, evolving with the needs of producers, editors, and journalists worldwide. Now, with VBox News 5.0, we’ve taken everything we’ve learned and elevated it to a whole new level—more power, more control, and more possibilities than ever before.
Real-World Success: Express Media Group’s Experience with VBox
One of the strongest testaments to VBox’s impact is its long-standing collaboration with Express Media Group, a leading media network in Pakistan. Since 2010, Express Media has relied on VBox technology to streamline operations and deliver seamless broadcasting across its network.
Originally, Express Media transitioned to Vector 3 products in a rather unexpected manner. At the time, they were using a system from a major manufacturer that was reaching the end of its lifecycle and experiencing occasional instability. As a temporary solution, AA System, Vector 3’s representative in Pakistan, installed VBox at Express Media while they considered repairing or replacing their existing system. However, after experiencing VBox’s capabilities firsthand, Express Media engineers decided to adopt the technology permanently, fully integrating VBox Channel and VBox News into their workflow.
Today, Express Media operates five VBox units across its network, ensuring uninterrupted, high-quality content delivery. VBox Channel manages both the entertainment and news playouts, while VBox News powers the live studios, handling everything from routine bulletins to high-stakes prime-time broadcasts. The powerful MOS integration with Octopus has enabled rock-solid coordination between the studio control and newsroom, making it easier to navigate unexpected changes and breaking news scenarios.
Anis Ahmed, a CTO at Express Media, sums up their experience:
“If I had to sum up VBox in one statement, I’d say it is highly reliable, predictable, and easy to use—three crucial qualities for any broadcasting system. Predictability allows us to anticipate and manage potential issues, reliability ensures long-term stability, and ease of use makes operations seamless for our team. These strengths are why we have five Vector Boxes actively in service, and they have consistently delivered excellent performance, proving their value in our broadcasting operations.”
With VBox News 5.0 setting new industry standards, more broadcasters worldwide can expect to experience the same reliability and efficiency that have made VBox a trusted name in live newsroom automation.
About VECTOR 3: Vector 3 develops high performance IT-based broadcast systems for playout, live studio and video ingest. Combining fault-tolerant automation, videoservers with built-in graphics and effects, and all the tools for managing a file-based workflows Vector 3 systems meet the most demanding requirements for multichannel playout, news studio, commercial insertion, local programming, and disaster recovery. Over more than twenty-five years, Vector 3 has pioneered and mastered the introduction of IT into television operations, achieving many industry firsts, including DVB based multichannel playout, ingest from streaming and videowall management for studio automation. Supported by a global network of system integrators, Vector 3’s solutions are used around the world by more than a thousand broadcasters for live studio, multi-site multichannel broadcasting, single-channel operation, and business continuity. For more information on Vector 3 and its products, visit https://www.vector3.tv/
