{"id":44490,"date":"2026-05-16T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/44490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:34:08","slug":"disguise-and-creative-technology-partner-to-power-eurovisions-visuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/44490\/","title":{"rendered":"Disguise and Creative Technology partner to power Eurovision&#8217;s visuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The 70th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest provides a real-world showcase for the next evolution of Disguise&#8217;s IP-based broadcast workflows, said the company<\/p>\n<p>Disguise has extended its collaboration with Creative Technology (CT) to support the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. Marking the eighth consecutive year that the partners have supported the event, Disguise has deployed GX3 media servers to power visuals at the production.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to meet Eurovision\u2019s requirement for a flexible, scalable broadcast environment, the setup aims to support this year\u2019s shift to a more LED-driven stage, while optimising workflows for Disguise\u2019s IP-VFC cards.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Contest will be one of the first major live productions to deploy Disguise\u2019s latest IP-VFC firmware update, which aims to significantly enhance performance for GX 3 servers and marks an \u201cimportant milestone\u201d in the company\u2019s ST 2110 workflow technology.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-123526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Photo-11.05.26-22-07-17-copy-726x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"230\"  \/>Images courtesy Alberto Morand<\/p>\n<p>Building on their longstanding relationship, Disguise engineers have worked alongside CT\u2019s teams throughout rehearsals and live broadcasts on site, ensuring seamless integration and rapid response in a high-pressure live environment, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Niklas Ljung, group technical director at Creative Technology, said,\u00a0\u201cEurovision always succeeds in raising the bar creatively and technically. This year, the scale and flexibility of the LED environment is a key part of that ambition. Working with Disguise, we\u2019ve been able to refine our workflows and build a system that supports both the creative vision and the reliability demands of a live broadcast of this magnitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Eurovision Song Contest continues to set the benchmark for innovation in live entertainment, and is an incredibly exciting early showcase of our latest IP-VFC technology in a demanding broadcast environment,\u201d added Camilla Powell, head of product at Disguise. \u201cThrough our continued partnership with Creative Technology, we\u2019re proud to support one of the most ambitious live productions in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4fffd7a3ebcf1a63dbbfbe6587325c0a70571b21777a44c4e903dba869e994bf.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-50 photo\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Corrigan joined TVBEurope in March 2024. He has previously worked as a journalist, covering everything from MP Interviews to weird local folklore, and a marketing copywriter for the deep tech industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.smartbrief.com\/TVBEurope?campaign=291ac43c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"banner-newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TVB_Newsletter Graphics_Mar26_V4.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 70th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest provides a real-world showcase for the next evolution of Disguise&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[27364,27365,20859,20863,20860,28029,28028],"class_list":["post-44490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eurovision","tag-creative-technology","tag-disguise","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","tag-led-stages","tag-smpte-st-2110"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}