ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

The new HD2 truck now operates at NRK’s most demanding and high-profile sporting events across Norway. It was used for the first time at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in March this year.

“Miranda’s Nvision Hybrid router is a very timely product, with the new truck handling a significantly higher number of audio channels for 5.1 surround,” explains Jon-Dag Skagmo, project manager for NRK’s HD2 Truck.
“With the signal processing performed within the router, we can better address audio/video timing issues such as lip sync. We have also saved almost two racks worth of space by eliminating a separate AES router and dedicated embedders/de-embedders. The cable management is also improved significantly.”

The Nvision 8500 Hybrid router integrates de-embedding, shuffling, break­away and re-embedding in a single frame. This means that everyday signal-processing tasks, such as swapping programme audio tracks, can now be handled simply and elegantly within the router frame. Advanced Hybrid router cards with audio processing can be mixed with regular input and output cards to minimise costs.

The HD2 truck, which was built by Sony Professional Solutions, Europe, is also fitted with 10 “silent” Kaleido-X16 multiviewers, and three space- and energy-efficient Kaleido-Modular multi­viewers for monitoring in the truck’s production, audio and video areas using 15 large LCD displays.

“We’ve previously bought Kaleido multiviewers for some of our production studios, and we’re now starting to utilise them on our trucks,” adds Jon-Dag Skagmo.

The compact Kaleido-X16 multiviewer features 16 inputs and dual multiviewer outputs, and offers the same high picture quality, extreme layout flexibility and ease of use as the top-of-the-range Kaleido-X processors. The Kaleido-Modular multiviewer can provide up to 20 multiviewer outputs per 3RU frame, and consumes less than 300W per frame.

The HD2 truck also uses 20 Sony HD cameras on-board, including two super-slow-motion cameras and two RF cameras, as well as a Studer Vista 9 audio console.

 

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