New product launches were few and far between at both the 2024 NAB Show and IBC 2023, two staple events on the video industry calendar, which is why extra emphasis will be placed on anything emphatically new out of the blocks at IBC 2024 next month. In the run up to Amsterdam in mid-September, a handful of product launches from M&E vendors have whet our appetites. But what on the surface may appear shiny and new can often prove to be a superficial update to an existing product that was anticipated at some point on the roadmap anyway. An update to Harmonic’s Distribution Management System (DMS), hot off the US company’s product press this week, is one example of something…