Kokusai Denki (formerly Hitachi) is showcasing how it helped Racecourse Technical Services (RaceTech), which broadcasts 1500 racing fixtures across 60 racecourses per year, roll out a new style of remote production unit OB.
RPU1 is designed to reduce the amount of equipment required on-site using remote production. It uses seven Kokusai Denki SK-HD1300E-S1 HD camera systems, including an S3 super slow-motion camera. Its CCUs have both fibre and triax connectors, so the proportion of triax and fibre can be changed from job to job. The cameras can also be used as radio cameras with full RCP control.
Other equipment normally found in an OB (vision mixer, graphics, sound) stays at Ealing Broadcast Centre in London, with the control panels for this equipment at RaceTech’s Remote Production Centre in south-west London.
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John Bance, Head of Engineering, RaceTech, said: “The flexibility to allow operation via triax or fibre camera cables, simply by changing the camera’s back adaptor, is great. In some situations, we also need to switch to single-mode fibre operation, which is very easy and just needs simple fibre break-out boxes and 12V DC to power the camera head.”
RaceTech has bought eight more Kokusai Denki cameras for RPU2, currently being built.
Stand Number: 10.B40
Company: Kokusai Denki
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