Each year for the past 18 years, Broadcast Engineering readers have selected the most innovative and exciting products from each NAB show. Broadcast Engineering’s Pick Hits are the most distinguished and longest running awards given as a part of the NAB convention.

The judges are readers of Broadcast Engineering magazine and working professionals in the broadcast, post and network and satellite industries. To protect the integrity of awards, they remain anonymous throughout the judging process. Broadcast Engineering’s editors and publisher do not select the products and technology.

Products must be new and not shown at a previous NAB convention. They must have some positive impact on the intended user’s everyday work and offer substantial improvement over previous technology.

Reflecting the increased number of NAB exhibitors and new technology, we've expanded the Broadcast Engineering Pick Hits to 40 winners.

For complete information on this year’s 40 Pick Hit winners read below or visit to learn more about all the winners.
Vendor Product Description
360 Systems Image Server 2000 MPEG-2 video server
Apple Final Cut Pro 4 Upgrade to Apple’s popular NLE software
Avid DNA Family NLE systems and software
Axcera DXA-2B Synchronous transmitter
Bella Professional Series Professional Keyboard for nonlinear editing
Calrec Zeta 100 Digital mixing console
Chyron SOLO Laptop-based CG system
Cine Bags Model #102010 Production equipment carry bag
Clear-com CellCom Wireless intercom system
Computer Modules DVB-ASI Time Shifter MPEG stream delay system
Digital Voodoo HD/Vengeance video cards HD video cards for the Macintosh
DNF Controls DC-30 Tally Interface Box Interfaces tally signals with other equipment
Dolby LM-100 Loudness Meter Measures loudness of audio dialogue
Drake FreeSpeak Wireless intercom
Evertz HD9625LG Logo inserter HD logo inserter
Global Translation Translate TV Instantly translates content for closed captioning
GVS GVS9000 series computers Power Mac G4 with Power PC
Hamlet Adept TSG/waveform/vectorscope
Harris ReCon Remote control & facility management
Horita Script Kit logging clipboard Portable scene-logging system
JVC JY-HD10U HD camcorder
Leader FS3018 Lighting Monitor Portable PDA-like camera monitor
Leitch DVR-3901 DVR On-card digital video recorder
Logic Innovations TSM-2800 Eight-input transport-stream multiplexer
Miranda Densité SCP-1121 SDI control probe
NVision NV5128-MC Master Control routing switcher
Panasonic Solid-state storage technology Solid-state storage technology
Pioneer PRV-LX1 Dual-deck DVD video recorder
Quantel Qedit Pro PC-based editor
RTW Surround Monitor Multichannel audio display
Sachtler Artemis Camera stabilizing system
SeaChange Media Publisher MPEG-2 plug-in NLE for Adobe Premiere
Snell & Wilcox Ukon Universal Conversion Platform
Sony Optical disc camera/recording system Records broadcast video on optical disc media
Sony Cine Alta family Cine Alta series improvements (SR)
Tektronix WFM700 waveform monitor SD/HD waveform monitor
Thales Amber Cable translator
Thomson Grass Valley M-Series iVDR VTR replacement system
Wohler MONFlex LCD video monitor
Zenith P50W28A display 50” plasma HDTV monitor/display
Pick Hit Winners click here.