Hive evolves its video control ecosystem, audio and lighting over IP

With the vision 'Ecosystem evolution', the multimedia server manufacturer Hive provides native video convergence on its platform, audio and lighting over IP for immersive and commercial environments.

Composed of new systems of video, IP-based audio and control throughout its platform, Hive has presented evolution of its ecosystem of compact media servers - called Ecosystem evolution-, highlighting the transition from SDM modules to fully network-based workflows.

Hive has shown this vision for Simplify and accelerate video integration, audio and lighting in immersive environments, live and commercial during his recent participation in WHEREAS 2026 in Barcelona

Since he presented his acquaintance range Beeblade in the market, Hive has redesigned the implementation of multimedia servers, moving high-performance playback hardware from remote racks to the display itself. The evolution of this ecosystem continues to offer greater performance, efficiency and synchronization even more accurate across distributed systems.

The Complete Line of Beeblade Multimedia Engines and Modular Shells, including the well-known Beeblade Nexus, the first motor multimedia 8K60 developed in the world in SDM format, It could be seen last week at the Barcelona fair, along with the latest software developments that unify playback, control and synchronization on the network.

Building on the success of its SDM platform, The company is expanding its Scope to Networked Media Workflows, allowing creators and integrators manage each signal (video, audio and lighting) natively over IP.

During his participation in ISE 2026, Hive has done live demos with video about IP SMPTE 2110 y Dante audio over IP, highlighting how this software ecosystem now offers fully synchronized over standard Ethernet, without the complexity of routing hardware or traditional synchronization.

At the heart of these demonstrations is Beesync, the Patented HDMI Genlock technology by Hive, which uses lightweight machine learning to predict and correct HDMI time drift in real time, ensuring perfect synchronization on any number of outputs.

To show this ecosystem, the company has also carried out during the fair in Barcelona collaborations with Panasonic, ROE Visual y Epson to show the open approach to its developments, facilitating creative freedom in display and projection technologies.

“We have built one of the most powerful and compact ecosystems on the market, "But we are just beginning to see what it can do," he says. Mark Calvert, Hive CEO. This year we will focus on evolution: we will strengthen our SDM platform, “We will deepen our software integrations and extend everything we do to the network layer.”.

The objective of these developments, as Calvert adds, “is that the Synchronized and scalable media over IP is accessible to all creators and integrators, whether they are creating a theme park experience, an immersive exhibition or a live show”.