Belgium's Outside Broadcast Shows Off New Grass Valley-Equipped unit 8 at IBC
Unit 8 is fully serial digital and capable of switching between 16:9 and 4:3 production. It houses a raft of Grass Valley Group equipment, including a 4 mix/effects (M/E) Grass Valley™ Kalypso™ Video Production Centre with 64 inputs and 32 outputs; a Grass Valley 7500 WB wideband digital routing matrix configured 128x192 SDI on a 256x256 chassis; a new compact Grass Valley Concerto™ series audio routing matrix, configured 32x32 AA analogue and 32x32 AES/EBU, as well as the Grass Valley Encore™ facility control system; Grass Valley 8900 Series, 2000 Wideband Series, and 8500 Series modular products; and Profile® digital video platform systems.
Outside Broadcast has four OB trucks and three fixed production rooms. Unit 8 measures 14x4.7x4 meters after expanding both sides, with an internal work area of 17x7 meters without tractor. The power supply is 125A CEE.
About The Products
As the hub of a teleproduction environment, the Kalypso Video Production Center family combines industry-leading switching and M/E capabilities with an open, networked architecture that offers a precedent-setting degree of operational integration. With up to 80 inputs (video or key) it offers fingertip control of a number of previously off-board functions to streamline workflow, a 100-frame still store capability, greater M/E capabilities, and a programmable clean-feed system. All from a familiar Grass Valley interface.
The 7500 WB wideband routing matrix is a no-compromise, future-proof solution that is ideal for broadcasters, production facilities, post production facilities, telecommunications facilities, Internet streaming facilities, and satellite service providers needing to route any digital signal from 10 Mb/s to signals up to 1.5 Gb/s.
The Grass Valley Concerto Series routing matrix features the Grass Valley Group's FlexFrame™ technology to enable users to mix formats within a single frame with unparalleled flexibility. Using a series of optional cards, it supports standard- or high-definition (SD or HD) digital video signals, AES/EBU digital audio and their analog counterparts. With just one card, for example, a user can add 32 inputs by 32 outputs of video, audio, and/or data to a Concerto frame.
The Encore system is the first open, scalable solution for enterprise-wide facility control and provides broadcasters and other content creators centralized and distributed router and machine control, remote monitoring and diagnostic capabilities, and signal-integrity analysis to expand the capabilities of their LANs, WANs, and video networks and to maximize their signal-management infrastructure investments.
Grass Valley modular products offer a full range of signal-processing capabilities and provide a smooth upgrade path from analog to SD to HD signal processing. Their support for the Grass Valley NetCentral™ software for SNMP-based remote monitoring further streamlines workflows and maximizes the return on signal-management investments.
The Profile line has more broadcast content stored on it and more units installed than any other server. It is also the industry's most flexible platform, supporting both the high-quality standards required for broadcast television and low-resolution required for the Internet, including MPEG-1, DVCPRO, DVSPRO25, DVCPRO50, and High Definition television.
About The Grass Valley Group
The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else—especially as video goes digital. The Internet. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Interactive television. It's a world of Digicasting—one that demands Media Without Bounds™ solutions. Whether online or on the air, the Emmy® award-winning Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, has the hardware, software, and new media technologies to get content wherever it needs to go.
For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, visit www.grassvalleygroup.com.
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