Alfacam
Case study
Alfacam (a renowned TV- and video facilities company) equips its first fully switchable digital and HDTV vans with BARCO's broadcast monitoring solution. 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 STUDIO (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.
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.
About this project
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| Date | May, 2001 |
| Location | BELGIUM |
| Press releases | Barco Announces Major Contracts with Several Broadcast Television Facilities (en nl fr) Barco’s iSTUDIO Selected for the World’s Largest and Most Advanced Digital TV Trucks (en) |
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