The STAR is designed to celebrate and showcase technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. TV Technology Europe's editor reviewed a variety of products, examined the technical applications and their overall contribution to the industry, and then chose 25 winners.

Syntax Bridge, the result of integrating BHV’s award-winning Syntax up-scaler with Microvideo’s well-proven HDB-300 VANC/VBI converter, was brought to market to address the ever-growing requirement for closed captions as part of the retention of metadata through the broadcast chain. Now broadcasters and facilities managers can enjoy Syntax's unrivalled upscaling quality with full control of closed captions and other VBI data, benefitting from BHV's artifact-free up-conversion and Microvideo's comprehensive metadata processing in one compact and cost-effective package.