Pyro Unbound: The Hollyland Pyro Ultra Lands in Manila
Pyro Unbound: The Hollyland Pyro Ultra Lands in Manila
There's a particular quiet that settles over a room full of filmmakers when a monitor flickers to life. On May 30 at Studio J 2.0 in Manila, that quiet had a name — Pyro Unbound, the Philippine launch of the Hollyland Pyro Ultra, the wireless video system built to erase a limit crews have quietly worked around for years.
The name isn't just branding. For as long as affordable wireless video has existed, one number has capped every set: how many people can actually watch the shot at once. The Pyro Ultra's answer to that number is, essentially, "however many you want."
The Launch
Hollyland Philippines invited us to Pyro Unbound for a first proper look at the brand's new flagship, and we weren't the only ones — filmmakers, videographers, and content creators packed the room for the reveal. The Pyro Ultra had already made its global debut earlier this year at NAB in Las Vegas; this was the moment it landed in front of the Filipino production community, brought in by CMJ Tech Trading Inc., Hollyland's official distributor in the Philippines.
Between the reveal and the hands-on stations, the format was refreshingly simple: less a sales pitch, more an invitation to put your hands on the gear, run a live feed, and see whether the specs actually hold up when you're the one watching the monitor.
Meet the Pyro Ultra
The Pyro Ultra is the newest and most capable member of Hollyland's Pyro family, and it moves the line forward on the two things that matter most on a working set: image quality and how many people can see it.
- 4K60true wireless capture
- 1.5 kmline-of-sight range
- 20 msFocus Mode latency
- ∞receivers per transmitter
It's the first Pyro unit to transmit true 4K at 60fps — where the existing Pyro S and Pyro H top out at 4K30 — so higher-frame-rate workflows finally get a wireless path that keeps up. Underneath sits Hollyland's proprietary TWiFi technology, which fuses the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands into a single composite link and hops automatically off congested channels, reaching up to 1.5 kilometers line-of-sight.
Then there's the headline feature. Where older Pyro models cap at four receivers, the Ultra feeds an unlimited number of them from a single transmitter. On a real set, that means the director, the DP, the DIT, the gaffer, and every department head can be watching the same feed at once — no daisy-chaining, no compromises about who gets a monitor.
For the first time, the number of people who can see the shot isn't set by the gear. It's set by how many you invite.
For the focus pullers, the Ultra's dedicated Focus Mode drops latency to as low as 20ms, so a pull lands on cue instead of a beat behind. It carries both HDMI and SDI with a 4K60 loop-out for local monitoring, streams straight to a platform over UVC and RTMP without an extra encoder, and stays backward compatible with the rest of the Pyro lineup — so it slots into a kit filmmakers may already own rather than replacing it.
More Than a Transmitter: The Hollyland Ecosystem
The Ultra didn't show up alone. Pyro Unbound also put the wider Hollyland lineup on the table — a reminder that the brand now covers a full production workflow, not just a single link in it.
The Solidcom C1 Pro made an appearance: a wireless intercom system aimed at mid-sized filmmaking crews, the kind of tool that keeps a set talking cleanly without tangled cables or shouted directions across a room. Alongside it sat the rest of the Pyro family, including the HDMI-focused Pyro H, showing how the pieces scale from a solo shooter up to a full crew.
Left: the Solidcom C1 Pro wireless intercom. Right: more of the Pyro family, including the Pyro H.
The People in the Room
Front and center was Nigel Laxamana, a Hollyland Brand Ambassador and one of the country's most experienced broadcast and live-events directors, with well over a hundred commercial, concert, and show productions behind him. He is exactly the kind of professional the Pyro Ultra is built for — the person running a live multi-camera show where a dozen people need eyes on the same feed at once — and that fluency in high-pressure production put real authority behind the launch.
Adding to the weight of the night was Tey Clamor, one of the most respected cinematographers working in Philippine cinema today. She won the Gawad Urian for Best Cinematography for Babae at Baril and the Cinema One Originals Best Cinematography award for Metamorphosis, and shot the acclaimed feature Isa Pa, With Feelings — a body of work built on knowing exactly what a camera can and can't do under pressure.
Between them, they covered both ends of the Ultra's world — the live-broadcast set and the narrative one. The problems it's built to solve — a focus puller working off a laggy feed, a director who can't see the frame, a crew fighting over too few monitors — aren't abstract features on a spec sheet. They're the daily realities of the people who actually shoot and direct, and having two figures of this caliber in the room grounded the launch in the work rather than the marketing.
Why It Mattered
Gear launches can feel like noise. This one landed differently because of what it represents: professional-grade wireless monitoring, the kind that used to be reserved for big-budget international sets, arriving in the hands of Filipino creators who are increasingly working at that level.
That's the real value of a launch like this — CMJ and Hollyland putting the tools that raise a whole community's ceiling directly in front of the people who'll use them, and letting them run a live feed before they ever commit. The Pyro Ultra is a serious piece of kit. Pyro Unbound was a chance to see, up close, exactly why.
Get Your Hands on It
The Hollyland Pyro Ultra and the wider Pyro and Solidcom lineup are now available in the Philippines through CMJ Tech Trading Inc. and authorized dealers nationwide. If wireless monitoring has been the bottleneck on your sets — whether you're pulling focus on a feature or running a live multi-cam show — this is the upgrade worth putting your hands on.