Barco’s iSTUDIO Selected for the World’s Largest and Most Advanced Digital TV Trucks
Alfacam equips its first fully switchable digital and HDTV vans with BARCO’s broadcast monitoring solution
Antwerp, Belgium – June 18th, 2001. Barco, the world leader in large screen video and graphics display technology, is proud to announce that it has been contracted by Alfacam, a renowned TV- and video facilities company. With its 7 TV-trucks, this Belgian-based company has been covering major TV-events for broadcasters, production houses and event organizers throughout Europe and across over the past few years, such as Euro2000, Eurovision Song Contest …
“Eager to anticipate the demands of our clients, we always try to be ahead of technological evolution,” says Mr Fehervari, General Manager of Alfacam. The iSTUDIO - currently the most prestigious solution available - was selected to equip the new HD TV-trucks for two reasons: the solution handles an incredible capacity of sources and is ultra compact and light. Each truck now is equipped with 6 plasma displays, controlled by 3 Barco HYDRA systems and monitors all together a total of 84 live digital video sources. This allows to produce two different versions for the same production at the same time, one in Standard Definition and one in High Definition. Today for the very first time, Alfacam’s new TV-trucks will transmit the Gala Concert of the international Queen Elisabeth Contest in SDI for the Belgian TV and record simultaneously in HDTV for NHK, a Japanese broadcasting company.
Barco’s iSTUDIO combines a high-quality display, a HYDRA graphical controller, dynamic programmability and web-based operating software and per screen reaches a total of up to 30 video sources with video and audio, with embedded alarm monitoring. Be it for master control, camera control or editing, all operators enjoy the same level of flexibility of dynamic switching between configurations, in a matter of seconds. They are no longer confined to the standard monitor sizes, but can size and move a virtual monitor anywhere they want on the display for maximum viewing and ergonomics.
