May 2013
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At 5,000sqft it stands as the biggest purpose-built HD TV studio in Ireland
studio or possibly carving out some space in the existing building — but nothing made sense,” he said. “In the business park here there were a couple of empty buildings; the landlord of both buildings is the same, so then it became possible to start looking at these options.” When TV3 launched and went on air in 1998 it did so with a turnkey solution from Sony. That long-standing relationship continued through various upgrades and replacements during subsequent years. So naturally Sony was in the frame to supply equipment for the proposed new studio — but it was not the only bidder for the contract. Instead, the naming- rights deal for a three-year period was hammered out between TV3 and Sony to enable the project to come to fruition. “We could become a kind of
showpiece in Europe. And that’s one of the things we committed to with Sony, that they can use us as an example and we will open our facilities for those things including possible equipment demonstrations or other events,” said de Freitas. “It’s interesting that we’ve
actually extended beyond the Sony Broadcast group already,” added head of Broadcast Resources Paul Daniel. “For instance it was through Sony Music that we had One Direction to film the very first item in the studio. That worked for Sony as they were able to go online and say ‘filmed at Sony HD Studios in Dublin’, so it worked out really well for both parties.” “The building blocks of the studio were supplied by Sony through Eurotek,” said de Freitas. These included six Sony HDC-2400 cameras, an MVS-7000X vision mixer and seven professional Trimaster OLED monitors — along with Canon HD lenses, Vinten Quartz peds and Vector heads, Autocue prompting and Beyer DT-109/8 headsets. “The Sony deal was half of
the project: cameras, vision mixer, peds, lenses and autocue. We then added the [gallery set- up], audio desk, cap gen and all of the glue. For that we worked with BVS and Tyrell; they were the suppliers of the other half of the project.” A Harris multiviewer through
BVS was a logical choice as Zandar technical support staff are still based in Dublin (following Harris’ purchase of the Zandar business in 2008). Avid cap gen and the remaining gallery screens (standard
Launch night: Exterior view of TV3’s new building in Dublin, housing Europe’s first Sony HD Studios
“Every TV person who has come here has said, ‘OK we can see that all the decisions have been made here on behalf of television people.’ It’s designed for broadcasters by broadcasters”
“Talkback is Clear-Com,” said
de Freitas. “We did the talkback deal last year. That has provided a very seamless connectivity between the two buildings and we just fibred them up. The dealer for Clear-Com in the UK and Ireland is Tyrell. “We did the same thing with the main video router; 18 months ago we needed to refresh the old building and part of the BVS deal was that the router for this studio would be exactly the same — Snell — and we just put some fibre tielines between the two.” The design and configuration of the studio, gallery and CAR was by TV3’s team, with the physical wiring and termination undertaken by BVS. “Most of the decisions on lighting infrastructure were also made by us,” said de Freitas, “and we used Cine Electric as main supplier of lighting equipment. I wanted to involve as many Irish companies as I possibly
taking down satellite feeds can be done,” said de Freitas. “It’s not just a remote studio; it’s a broadcast facility. It is a TV station. And we’ve two channels, so we have quite a bit of freedom in how we schedule things — that’s another compelling reason to come here.” “Back in 1998 when TV3 was opened it was kind of regarded as being out of the way,” added Daniel. “Now it’s on the major motorway [the M50], 15 minutes from Dublin airport, with fantastic access and parking so it has become a valuable destination for production. For instance if you can’t shoot in London and you’re looking at Manchester — it’s not much of a stretch just to come to Dublin. That’s something that we’re actively chasing.” “We’re going to be focusing on the UK and specifically on London in terms of our next
Sony home 55-inch TVs) were supplied through Tyrell. TV3 chose a Studer Vista 5 audio console (just edging out Calrec Artemis Light) with a 42-channel control surface and four stage boxes, supplied through Tyrell, along with Genelec audio monitoring through BVS.
could in the process. This is one of our underlying philosophies, that we do support the local dealers as much as possible.”
Access and opportunity
“Everything is connected into the existing building so that any uplinks or fibre connectivity or
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round of sales,” confirmed Cogley. “RTÉ have been here, all the Irish production companies have been here to see it and understand its possibilities. Two have already decided to come here to make programme series. “Every TV person who has come here has said, ‘OK we can
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Niall Cogley, TV3
see that all the decisions have been made here on behalf of television people.’ You can back up your sets and your lights into here and there will be no delay,” said Cogley. “It is designed for broadcasters by broadcasters. We still have our existing space, so we’re happy to make compromises for incoming partners if their needs are such. “We are saying Dublin is now as good as anywhere else ‘in the UK’ for production,” he said. “Some productions are just too big for us; if they want 600 people in the audience to get that texture, we won’t pretend we can cater for them. But the general sense we get from all of the people we’ve spoken to around London is enthusiasm. And there’s a very high skill level here. There are a lot of very experienced broadcast professionals here in Dublin.”
Marex supports Deltacast Marex Broadcast Systems, a leader in broadcast software for OEMs, has added support for Deltacast’s DELTA-3G and DELTA-hd families of cards to the Virgo Open Video Ecosystem (OVE). “The VideoMasterHD SDK is a very open and general framework, which developers use to universally control any Deltacast card, to build a very wide range of application types,” said Christian Dutilleux, CEO of Deltacast. “But customers sometimes lack development time and resources, and are eager for this type of higher-level solution, which significantly reduces development costs and time to market. With the Virgo OVE and Deltacast cards, they can now have a rock-solid broadcast application in a flash!”
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ExpeDat WAN into DIVArchive V7.1
File-transfer software company Data Expedition has agreed to integrate its ExpeDat WAN acceleration product into Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive V7.1 CSM system. The integration gives DIVArchive users a WAN acceleration option that is fully managed and supported by Front Porch Digital, and is claimed to be the first direct integration of a WAN acceleration protocol directly into a CSM cloud-based solution. “Having direct access to ExpeDat will speed file transfers for our customers who use DIVAnet and the cloud-based LYNX service, both of which rely on WANs for getting data back and forth,” said Andy Hurt, vice president, product management at Front Porch Digital.
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