Components
Nixer unveils CV1 at IBC 2025, a no-nonsense AoIP monitor for broadcast pros
AMSTERDAM: Nixer Pro Audio has lifted the lid on its latest innovation at IBC 2025: the CV1, an all-in-one audio-over-IP monitoring unit aimed squarely at broadcast control rooms, production suites, recording studios and live performance setups.
Modelled on its RLC64 rackmount, the CV1 has been overhauled following requests from a national broadcaster, and is pitched as a fast, flexible and integration-friendly solution.
The speaker-free box is designed to slot neatly into high-end workflows, working with premium external loudspeakers and loudness meters via dedicated AES and line outputs. It supports Dante, Ravenna/AES67 and ST 2110 out of the box, with AVB-Milan waiting in the wings.
“In live broadcast operations and recording studios, sound quality is paramount,” said Nixer Pro Audio founder & chief executive Nick Fletcher. “Being able to hear everything through proper external monitors gives audio professionals greater assurance and control.”
The CV1 packs in dual headphone outputs with independent level controls, access to 32 stereo inputs—including 30 AoIP channels plus AES and line—and touchscreen switching. Output tools include individual channel mutes and a dim function with attenuation from 0 to 30 dB. Engineers also get phase reverse, mono sum and monitoring trims for quick fault-checking.
Eight AoIP outputs allow routing flexibility across complex setups, while the unit can natively return AES, line or AoIP sources back to the network—cutting out format converters and extra rack gear. Engineers can rename source buttons directly on-screen and tailor meter and output behaviour to suit.
Distributors and integrators are already eyeing the CV1 for live broadcast, radio, music production, post, and remote gallery work. Optional upgrades in 2026 will open up wireless AoIP monitoring via iPads and web UI.
“The CV1 reflects our core philosophy: listen to customers and give them exactly what they need,” Fletcher said.
The unit is now shipping worldwide, with Nixer showing it off at stand 8.F96 at IBC 2025.
SEOUL: In the eternal battle between gamers demanding lightning-fast refresh rates and professionals craving pixel-perfect clarity, LG Display reckons it has found détente. The South Korean display titan is unveiling the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor panel that marries an RGB stripe structure with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate—a combination previously thought incompatible, like oil and water or fashion and function.
The breakthrough lies in how the pixels are arranged. RGB stripe structure lines up red, green and blue subpixels in neat rows, banishing the colour bleeding and fringing that plague lesser screens when you park your nose close to the display. It is the difference between reading crisp text and squinting at a rainbow-tinged mess. OLED panels using this method existed before, but they topped out at a sluggish 60Hz—fine for spreadsheets, useless for fragging opponents in first-person shooters.
LG Display’s engineering wizardry changes the game. By cranking the refresh rate to 240Hz whilst maintaining that pristine RGB stripe layout, the company has produced a panel that works equally well for colour-critical design work and twitchy gaming sessions. Better still, the panel incorporates Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, letting users toggle between ultra-high-definition at 240Hz and full-HD at a frankly ludicrous 480Hz. That is fast enough to make your eyeballs sweat.
The specs are suitably impressive: 160 pixels per inch for exceptional detail, optimised performance for Windows and font-rendering engines, and colour accuracy that should please the Photoshop brigade. LG Display achieved this by boosting the aperture ratio—the percentage of each pixel that actually emits light—and applying what it coyly describes as “various new technologies.” Translation: years of R&D and probably some sleepless nights.
Existing high-end gaming OLED monitors have relied on RGWB structures (which add a white subpixel) or triangular RGB arrangements. Both work, but neither delivers the sharpness that professionals demand. LG Display’s new stripe pattern is tailored specifically for monitor use, a recognition that staring at a screen from two feet away demands different engineering than watching telly from across the room.
The company is betting big on this technology, targeting the high-end monitor market where it already commands roughly 30 per cent of global OLED panel production. Among gaming OLED panels in mass production, LG Display claims world-leading specs across refresh rate, response time and resolution—a trifecta that sounds like marketing bluster until you check the numbers.
“Technology is the foundation of leadership in the rapidly growing OLED monitor market,” says LG Display head of the large display business unit Lee Hyun-woo. He promises to keep pushing “differentiated technologies compared to competitors”—corporate-speak for staying ahead of Chinese rivals snapping at LG’s heels.
The new panel will debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where LG Display plans to woo customers and expand its lineup. Initial rollout targets high-end gaming and professional monitors, the sweet spot where people actually pay premiums for superior screens rather than settling for whatever came with their laptop.
Whether this technology reshapes the monitor market or remains a niche luxury depends on two things: pricing and production scale. But for now, LG Display has pulled off something rare—a genuine technical leap that solves a real problem. Gamers get their speed, designers get their clarity, and LG gets bragging rights. In the cutthroat world of display tech, that counts as a win.
