Roland, a manufacturer of professional audio and video gear, has announced the P-20HD Video Instant Replayer, a hardware solution for bringing professional instant replay capabilities to “any live production setup”. Using intuitive controls and the integrated color LCD, a single operator can cue up replays of action to let fans relive moments, either on a streaming feed or live event screens in the venue—or both at once.

The P-20HD records directly to high-capacity SD cards. Action can be replayed in forward, reverse, or slow motion, stepped through frame by frame, or frozen for detailed analysis. The game is continuously recorded in the background during replays, with no gaps in the action.

The P-20HD panel features an array of dedicated hardware controls. Transport buttons include play, pause, forward, rewind, mark in, and mark out. A jog/shuttle wheel with optical encoding provides fluid control to scrub clips for replay and editing, while the T-bar directly adjusts playback speed. A Speed Range function also offers “ultra-fine control”.

In recording view, the P-20HD screen shows the current video input, plus critical SD card information like recording duration, remaining storage space, and available time. And in playback view, users can display cropped previews of all video clips for live replay or later compilation.

After the action is over, the media playlist builder makes it possible to aggregate clips into curated pro videos, letting users celebrate the best moments of a game on social media or distribute practice and training sessions to coaches and players for evaluation. The P-20HD natively records in the universal H.264 format, so files can be uploaded to most platforms with no conversion steps in-between.

The P-20HD can be used on its own, or upstream or downstream of any Roland video switcher. Users can connect two video sources via HDMI and switch/composite between them for replay capture. Both HDMI inputs feature built-in scalers, providing “worry-free connectivity” with nearly any source.

Via future firmware updates, Roland has a roadmap for additional capabilities that include annotation, RS-232/LAN support, external footswitch control, file import/export, multimedia playback, and more.