Providing wide view timing visibility across the entire production chain

Hitomi Broadcast is launching MatchBox Panorama, a visualisation platform that brings timing and latency measurements from across production workflows together in one place. The new system will be unveiled at NAB Show (booth W2216, Las Vegas Convention Centre, April 19 – 22, 2026).

Hitomi MatchBox is already the global standard in point-to-point latency and lip sync measurement. MatchBox Panorama is another huge leap forward, bringing all the timing measurements together, enabling engineers to view their entire infrastructure in one place, identifying sources of latency and dramatically reducing the time it takes to align complex production networks. Lip sync errors are hugely distracting to viewers, and MatchBox Panorama spans complex remote productions while providing the fast and certain route to the quality of experience audiences expect.

MatchBox’s approach to measuring latencies and lip sync over a circuit uses a unique audio and video test pattern, created either in a MatchBox Generator or with the MatchBox Glass iPhone app for capture by a camera and microphone. The major advance in MatchBox Panorama is that it not only monitors multiple sources of the test pattern, but it also allows for data probes to be inserted at any point in the signal path. This means the engineer can not only precisely align all the feeds, but MatchBox Panorama can also identify where circuits or equipment are contributing significant latency, making optimisation sure and simple.

Russell Johnson, Director, Hitomi said, “Live sport is hugely important to American audiences, and lip sync and latency issues can ruin the experience. At NAB, we will demonstrate how MatchBox Panorama brings every probe and measurement together in one place, making it simple to optimise timing across complex, contribution workflows. This also provides opportunities for other sporting environments, such as Colleges and Universities, to achieve the same, professional and effective latency set-up.”

MatchBox Panorama is a standalone software solution, but it is designed for open integration into larger, interoperable production environments. It is already successfully proven within the Grass Valley AMPP ecosystem and further partners will be announced soon.

Find Hitomi on booth W2216, or find out more at hitomi.tv.