Hitomi Broadcast Joins Grass Valley Alliance with Native AMPP Integration

Hitomi Broadcast, the market leader in latency and audio/video alignment tools, announces its participation in the Grass Valley Alliance, delivering native MatchBox Software solutions for the AMPP ecosystem. This strategic partnership addresses one of broadcasters' primary concerns about migrating to software-based production: maintaining precise timing and synchronisation throughout complex virtualised workflows.

The integration brings Hitomi's trusted timing measurement capabilities directly into AMPP environments through MatchBox Software Analyser, MatchBox Probe, and MatchBox Renderer applications. MatchBox Software solutions operate entirely within AMPP's virtualised infrastructure, enabling engineers to position timing measurement probes throughout their broadcast chain without signal conversion or external routing. This provides true end-to-end visibility, allowing broadcasters to monitor timing at multiple points from a centralised web interface whilst maintaining the same millisecond-accurate measurements that broadcast professionals rely on worldwide.

"Traditional workflows using hardware analysers require video signals to be routed out of software-based environments and converted back to SDI for analysis, which not only adds complexity but can introduce the very timing errors customers are trying to detect," explains Russell Johnson, Director at Hitomi Broadcast. "Our native AMPP integration eliminates this problem by enabling in-situ timing measurement within the software infrastructure itself."

"Managing sync and latency is one of the key concerns about the migration to cloud production," notes Matthew Yates, Director of Strategic Alliances at Grass Valley. "Hitomi's MatchBox solutions demonstrate exactly the kind of integration the Alliance is built for: delivering precision timing measurement that broadcasters require whilst working seamlessly within AMPP workflows."

The partnership reflects Grass Valley Alliance's focus on creating integrated solutions that work together out of the box, rather than requiring weeks of custom integration. MatchBox Software Analyser can manage multiple probes simultaneously, providing the scalability essential for modern virtualised broadcast operations whilst reducing infrastructure investment and maintaining precision.

Hitomi's MatchBox technology is recognised as the industry standard for timing measurement, deployed across major sporting events and broadcast facilities worldwide. The software solutions work seamlessly with Hitomi's existing ecosystem, including the MatchBox Generator hardware and the Glass iOS app, providing broadcasters with comprehensive timing verification options across software, cloud and traditional workflows.

Visit Hitomi at IBC2025 on stand 10.A40 to see the MatchBox Software solutions in action. For more information on Hitomi's MatchBox Software solutions and AMPP integration, visit www.hitomi.tv.