OBVan Upgrades and New 3G OBVans

Lyon Video Upgrades OB Vans with Grass Valley’s New LDX XtremeSpeed 6X

Introduced at NAB 2014, the powerful new LDX XtremeSpeed camera delivers instant time-to-air capabilities and integrates seamlessly into live workflows with 3X (1080p) and 6X (720p/1080i) speeds for ultimate versatility, including a standard-speed 1X live output. Lyon Video's LDX XS cameras will be teamed up with the Grass Valley K2 Dyno Replay System with its AnySpeed dynamic playback technology to provide smooth playback at any speed from 0% to 200% and all speed transitions for ultra slow-motion 6X playout. This will dramatically expand the ability of replay operators to tell a compelling story during replays to keep viewers engaged. Company President Bob Lyon explained that Lyon Video first demoed the LDX XS during FOX Sports’ coverage of NHL Hockey, which quickly led to the purchase of two systems.

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MTVG Upgrades Eight Mobile Units with Grass Valley Ultra Slow-Motion Technology

Mobile TV Group (MTVG) has turned to Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to upgrade eight of its dual-feed mobile production trucks with a workflow that delivers stunning imagery with super and ultra slow-motion replays for its clients. MTVG has purchased 16 LDX XtremeSpeed (LDX XS) 6X ultra slow-motion cameras and eight K2 Dyno Replay Systems for the delivery of compelling live sports coverage with crisp imagery for instant replays and highlights packages. Seven FOX Sports regional networks will receive these systems along with one for Root Sports Rocky Mountain. Each mobile unit will have two ultra slow-motion cameras. MTVG operates one of the largest HD mobile production fleets in the United States, providing trucks for roughly 4,000 live sports and entertainment events each year. It has been working with Grass Valley for many years and owns more than 250 of the company’s cameras and 28 of its production switchers. This is its first K2 Dyno purchase.

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Global Television Move to Bel Digital Audio

UK manufacturer Bel Digital Audio and its Australian distributor Professional Audio Technology Pty Ltd have announced the supply of 18 x BM-A1-16SHD high quality audio confidence monitors to outside broadcast specialist Global Television, part of the US NEP group. The supply of the BM-A1-16SHD monitors is in line with an ongoing effort to expand their mobile HD TV equipment arsenal for upcoming live broadcasts during 2014. Global Television’s Technical Service Manager – Milan Milenkovic commented “Our very busy schedule for 2014 required us to increase the number of confidence monitors in our fleet. Once again PAT offered us outstanding technology with very short delivery times and was able to meet our budget with the BM-A1-16SHD monitors from Bel Digital.”

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Telerecord-Aret Partnership for UNIT 22

Telerecord is a well known company based in Florence, very active in the broadcast production and rental markets. Aret Video and Audio Engineering on the other hand is an international well known turnkey systems integrator, with over 40 years experience and more than 400 OB-Vans manufactured and delivered worldwide. The two companies often work in partnership and recently another result of these joint efforts is on field, an HD OB-van named "Unit 22". Giovanni Bertini, founder of Telerecord points out: "These mobile vehicles jointly signed by Telerecord - Aret are 'ready to go', high performance and flexible and guarantee on field up-to-date operational functions and great reliability. All technologies have been carefully selected and even each smallest detail both technical and structural and aesthetic have been rigorously examined; This concept is valid not only for the key technologies but also for the secondary ones that span from the hinges to the seals, paints and all the materials of the body and also the typical expansion gears. Here comes our many years of operational experience."

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Ross Video Launches openTruck™

Ross Video introduced openTruck™, an innovative initiative that provides a standardized yet customizable way to design a new generation of cost-effective remote-production vehicles that deliver the highest quality video and audio content from sports and other live events. By offering a proven model for lower cost, high-performance vehicles, openTruck opens the door to network-quality production and gives producers an all-round better way to expand coverage and meet consumer demand for coverage of more local events. “Coverage of local and regional sporting and other live events, including things like political events, concerts and rallies, has traditionally been extremely expensive,” says David Ross, Chief Executive Officer for Ross Video. “openTruck delivers huge opportunities in the regional sports and live-event market by enabling production companies to build and staff trucks that meet the demanding requirements of today’s sophisticated media delivery networks. Trucks built using the openTruck initiative will deliver a predictable production experience and outstanding results—all the time, every time.”

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Croatel Adds 3rd HD OBVan to Its Fleet

TVC has delivered its latest rack-ready one side expandable OB van to Croatel built on Volvo FH 420 HP 6X2 rigid chassis. CROATEL HD OB 3 is designed to meet the highest requirements of international broadcasting. The OB van equipped with 20x Grass Valley LDK 8000 Elite cameras, Video mixer GRASS VALLEY KARRERA 3 M/E, Audio mixer STUDER VISTA 5 M3, EVS SYSTEM XT 3, MIRANDA multiviewer system with crossconverter cards and SONY BVM – PVM series monitors. The coach includes motorized drums for triax or fibre cables, separate isolated room for audio console & operator, production area, slomo and engineering areas. One side expandable rigid coach is 11.9 m. length, width (travel) - 2,55 m., width (expanded) - 3,8 m., height – 4 m. It also includes hydraulic jacks, redundant air conditioning systems, 2 double power feeds, UPS for 20 min operation.

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Shine Australia Implements EVS HD Workflow for Live Programming

Shine Australia, one of the world’s fastest-growing and most successful creators and producers of media and entertainment brands, has implemented a new high-definition studio production workflow powered by EVS solutions. The updated workflow was selected for production of top-rated live programming such as The Voice, MasterChef, The Biggest Loser, So You Think You Can Dance and Australia’s Next Top Model. Working alongside Global Television for outside broadcast, Shine procured an EVS workflow consisting of multiple XT3 advanced live production servers and an IPDirector production asset management suite with Xsquare transfer and media workflow orchestration software for the current season of The Voice. Live studio programming such as The Voice requires massive amounts of content, with more than a dozen cameras capturing numerous angles. The new EVS workflow keeps data rates down, simplifies the production workflow, and provides streaming capabilities that save storage resources.

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New Zealand’s Māori Television Upgrades with Studer Vista 5 M3

Māori Television provides a range of local and international programming for New Zealand’s audiences across the country and online. Founded in 2004, the station is dedicated to the revitalization and normalization of the Māori language and culture through high-quality, readily accessible programming in both Māori and English. Reflecting its commitment to quality, Māori Television recently upgraded its studios with the addition of HARMAN’s Studer Vista 5 M3 and OnAir 2500 digital consoles. HARMAN Professional Australian distributor Jands Ltd. installed the 32-fader Vista 5 M3 and 12-fader OnAir 2500 consoles in Māori Television studios. The studio needed to replace its aging analogue mixing desks and make the move to digital. They wanted consoles that were flexible and easy to use. “Our studios are used for a variety of shows, including live news and current affairs programs, talk shows, sports programming and more,” said Kane Dickie, sound team leader. “One of the most challenging requirements is doing the sound for a live music show that requires mixing multiple hosts talking at once plus a live band.”

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RTS+OMNEO Becomes Proven Game-Changer at Super Bowl XLVIII

When it comes to sheer production complexity, few live broadcasts approach the scale of the Super Bowl. The National Football League championship game is widely seen as the premier sporting event in the United States, and is closely followed in much of the rest of the world as well. 2014’s Super Bowl XLVIII was no exception. According to Nielsen Media Research, the game, carried live on Fox Sports, was watched by 111.5 million viewers in the U.S. alone, making it the most-watched program in U.S. history. While such a high-profile event may seem like an unlikely occasion to introduce a new production technology, this year’s Super Bowl was the first large-scale remote broadcast event to utilize an intercom system incorporating OMNEO, RTS’s implementation of Audio-over-Internet Protocol (AoIP). Originally included primarily for test purposes, OMNEO not only performed flawlessly, it ended up playing a key role in enabling effective communication both within and between production locations.

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The Clay Paky B-Eye goes for Gold at Sochi Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies

World-renowned lighting designer Durham Marenghi has used a selection of Clay Paky products, including the new A.leda B-Eye K10 and Sharpy Washes, to deliver a truly spectacular lighting design for the opening and closing ceremonies of Sochi’s 2014 Winter Paralympics. With a stadium audience of over 40,000, plus tens of millions of viewers tuning in worldwide, the Winter Olympics has been a much-anticipated event. Marenghi used a lighting rig originally specified by lighting designer Al Gurdon for the Winter Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies, to create a spectacular new design for the Paralympics Ceremonies.

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Robe Highlights All Time Low

Popular American punk pop band All Time Low recently took the UK by storm on their latest “A Love Like” tour, and part of the WOW factor for their energy-fuelled performances was the lighting design created by Boston based LD Jeff Maker. Lighting for the UK tour was supplied by Leeds based rental company Zig Zag and included over 80 Robe moving lights including 54 x Pointes, 12 x LEDWash 600s and 12 x LEDBeam 100s all from Robe’s ROBIN range. Parnelli-nominated Maker has worked with the band since 2009 and his visual starting point for this tour was based on four different backdrop reveals throughout the set – a budget-friendly strategy to bring multi-layered looks and maximum dynamics to the stage and the pacey set. The set also includes semi-transparent riser ramps which are under-lit.

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Elation On-the-road Reliability for Brit Floyd “Discovery” World Tour

Currently touring North America with a rig of Elation Professional lighting that includes Platinum Beam 5R and Design Spot 1200C moving heads, Brit Floyd’s “Discovery” is a stunning three-hour musical journey that recreates the legendary band’s music and gives audiences a retrospective look at a classic lighting setup. Billed as The World's Greatest Pink Floyd Show, Brit Floyd has performed to over one million fans around the world since its first show in Liverpool in 2011. Lighting design is by Dave Hill, who has been designing Brit Floyd for years and incorporates the Platinum 5Rs into the trademark Pink Floyd arch and circle light show.

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NAB 2014 Reports: A Review on 116 Product News

Anton/Bauer  -  AJA  -  Apantac  -  Audinate  -  AVID  -  AVIWEST  -  AXON  -  Band Pro  -  bexel  -  Blackmagic Design  -  Boxx TV  -  BLT  -  Bradley  -  BroaMan  -  Calrec  -  Clear-Com  -  Camera Corps  -  ChyronHego  -  Cobham  -  coolux  -  Dejero  -  DiGiCo  -  DK-Technologies  -  DPA  -  DVS  - DYVI  -  Eden Park Lighting  -  Elemental  -  Evertz  -  EVS  -  Eyeheight  -  Fairlight  -  Fujifilm  -  Gefen  -  Grass Valley  -  Guntermann & Drunck  -  Harmonic  -  Hybrid  -  I-MOVIX  -  Ikegami  -  Imagine Communications  -  IMT  -  JFS  -  Jünger Audio  -  L-S-B  -  Lawo  -  Leader  -  Litepanels  -  LiveU  -  Lynx  -  Marshall  -  Matrox  -  Merging  -  Miranda  -  NewTek  -  Orad  -  Panasonic  -  Polecam  -  Quantel  -  Ross Video  -  Snell  -  Sony  -  Sound Devices  -  SSL  -  Stereotec  -  Studio Broadcast  -  TC Electronics  -  Tightrope  -  Thomson  -  Transvideo  -  Vizrt  -  VSN  -  Wohler
You will find 116 news from 72 companies that wer exhibiting at NAB 2014 - and all are relevant to the TV Live Production Community.

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LMG Selects Snell as Technology Partner for Transition to 4K in Live Event Staging

Snell announced that live event staging company LMG has chosen Snell to help deliver cutting-edge video experiences to its customers. Snell will provide key elements of the technology infrastructure, enabling multi-format content switching and simultaneous live feeds in 4K. The announcement underlines Snell’s commitment to helping customers make the transition to 4K by putting 4K functionality at the core of its entire product portfolio. Live event technology companies like LMG face an increasingly complex production environment in which multiple source formats – from HD to SDI and 4K – must be managed simultaneously and transformed into live video streams almost instantaneously. To help address this challenge, LMG has chosen Snell’s Kahuna 360 switcher along with the innovative new Maverik control panel in a 5 M/E configuration and Sirius 830 router – all for seamless handling of 4K feeds while switching in 2K.

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Hangman Studios Brings The Rolling Stones Tour to Fans in 4K+

Hangman Studios is a pioneering production and post-production company from the UK specializing in music based projects who joined The Rolling Stones on tour, capturing all of the action in 4K+. Touring with The Rolling Stones and filming in 4K+ placed a serious demand by Hangman Studios for fast, reliable and large storage, but in a portable RAID package that could be taken on the road. Hangman Studios never had a solution that could allow them to edit high-resolution media effectively whilst on tour, but with their willingness to embrace change and adopt new technologies they turned to PROMISE Technology and the Pegasus2 hardware RAID storage solution with Thunderbolt™ 2. PROMISE develops high-performance solutions optimized for the video bandwidth requirements of the media and entertainment market and its Pegasus2 line are the first hardware RAID 5/6 solutions with Thunderbolt 2, the revolutionary technology from Intel® that delivers blazing speeds of 20Gbps and allows for exceptional performance for creative workflows and 4K streaming and display environments.

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4K Test in Poland: ATM SYSTEM and Live Park

During the hit match of Polish football league T-Mobile Ekstraklasa, Legia Warszawa vs Lech Poznan, first time in Poland  ATM used 4K technology to enhance the possibility of content creation. In cooperation with the suppliers 4VISION Poland and TWENTY4SEVEN ATM got a SONY F-55 camera with CA4000 and BP 4000 adaptors, a FUJINON 19-90 Cabrio Lens, and  EVS XT3 sever with Epsio for the replay of super zoom images. ATM's creative crew was very excited by using the new tools to produce a live signal. It was  helpful for showing viewers a new perspective of contentious situation during the match.

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