SCN: How long have you been with this company, and what are your responsibilities?
Vincent Noyer: Hard to believe, but I’ve been with LYNX Technik for more than a year now. As CTO, I oversee the product vision, roadmap, and product-market fit across our portfolio—greenMachine, Series 5000, yellobrik, software applications, and what’s coming next. My focus is on ensuring that our innovation stays tightly connected to real-world needs across broadcast, post-production, and Pro AV.
SCN: LYNX Technik had some major leadership changes last summer. What prompted the transition, and how has the new structure been working?
VN: The company's founder, Winfried Deckelmann, decided to take a long overdue step back and sought a new CEO and CTO to refresh the product vision and inject new momentum. The learning curve was steep at first, but we’ve found our rhythm. We’re now in a strong phase of innovation: investing in development, expanding our roadmap, and delivering new ideas to market. Personally, I am thrilled with the new team and leadership structure. The foundation here is solid, supported by incredible expertise at every level.
SCN: A lot of people—including me—associate your company with the yellobrik line, so I have to ask: In an industry dominated by little black boxes, what was the thinking behind a yellow box?
VN: Funnily enough, that's how I knew LYNX before joining. I owned an early yellobrik SPG 1708 sync pulse generator. Credit for the color goes to Steve Russell, who leads our U.S. subsidiary. His idea was to make them stand out, and it worked brilliantly. The yellow casing made them instantly recognizable and easy to find, while the design itself emphasized clarity and simplicity—easy to setup and use, clearly labelled. Not every engineer loves the color when trying to hide gear on stage, but it’s a small price to pay for reliability.
SCN: What are some of the more popular yellobrik choices for Pro AV?
VN: Fiber converters and HDMI converters with fiber I/O are among the favorites. Their reliability and plug-and-play usability make them suitable for a wide range of applications out there, whether it’s a football stadium, live venue, cruise ship, submarine, or even a space launch pad. You’d be surprised where these little yellobriks show up.
SCN: One I/O option I don’t see in the yellobrik line is USB-C. Are there USB-C possibilities on the Pro AV product roadmap?
VN: Historically, LYNX has been focused on live broadcast and post production, where HDMI remains dominant. As a result, USB-C hasn’t been a primary focus for us yet. But I’d like to change that. The format has matured, and supporting both HDMI and USB-C in the future would give our users more flexibility.
SCN: You do offer several 8K solutions among your product lines. Is 8K becoming more popular in the Pro AV space?
VN: Our 8K development has largely been driven by demand from high-end TV and post-production customers. We’ve focused on ensuring our products are DCI-compliant, supporting 12-bit and 4:4:4 workflows, which you’ll see in our free firmware upgrades. Outside of those high-end productions, 8K adoption is still limited.
SCN: How does the yellobrik Server Module bring all these separate yellobrik solutions together?
VN: The combination of the yellobrik rack frame (RFR 1200), rack controller, and server creates a compact but powerful solution. It brings high-end features such as monitoring, control, power redundancy, GPI alerts, AutoControl, event-based automation, and configuration and multi-user access—features that were once limited to the Series 5000 cards—to the yellobrik family. The design of the rack emphasizes simplicity and reliability, and we’re continuing to invest in making the ecosystem even smarter and more connected.
SCN: What kinds of installations would benefit from your LynxCentraal software?
Broadcast is optimizing operations and workflow in response to tighter budgets, while Pro AV is pushing for higher reliability and quality without massive spending.
VN: Any environment where you’re managing a large number of devices, whether yellobriks, Series 5000 cards, or greenMachines, benefits from centralization. LynxCentraal simplifies configuration, monitoring, and control, enabling teams to manage everything from one interface. It can automatically switch to redundant paths, respond to triggers and GPI alerts, and handle multi-user access with defined privileges. One of my favorite features is the built-in simulator, which lets engineers model setups before making a capital investment or upgrading existing infrastructure. That’s a huge advantage when planning complex systems.
SCN: Are your Series 5000 solutions more popular for studio or mobile installs?
VN: The Series 5000 range has long been very popular in EMEA, where it’s found in both studio and mobile installations. Some cards were designed to answer very specific customer requests (even some crazy design decisions), which reflects our broader philosophy where we listen closely to users and evolve the technology with them. That user-driven approach continues to shape the roadmap today.
SCN: What makes your greenMachine processors unique in the industry?
VN: It’s versatility. greenMachine can be repurposed as needs evolve and it’s not locked into a single function. You might use it for audio/video testing one year, then reconfigure it for up/down/cross conversion the next. This flexibility makes it more of a toolbox than a single-purpose device, which is exactly what many integrators and engineers are looking for.
SCN: With solutions designed for both broadcast and Pro AV, LYNX Technik is in an excellent position to talk convergence. So, is Pro AV moving toward broadcast or is broadcast moving toward Pro AV?
VN: Both sectors are evolving toward the middle. Broadcast is optimizing operations and workflow in response to tighter budgets, while Pro AV is pushing for higher reliability and quality without massive spending. UHD has become the new baseline in some cases, so the performance expectations of both markets echo each other. Today, Pro AV installations often require the same low latency, visually lossless compression quality once exclusive to broadcast. Features like dual power, redundancy, and unified control are now common in high-end Pro AV applications. The overlap is really helping to drive new ideas, shared standards and innovation between both.
