8 TVBEurope News Pinewood lights up studio By David Fox
LIGHTING CONSULTANCY Projects Department has designed and installed a new lighting infrastructure to help convert a Pinewood soundstage into a fully functional television studio. Pinewood’s new TV Three
measures 16x14m and the Projects Department-supplied infrastructure includes a lighting grid, lighting barrels, distributed IGBT silent dimmers, Non-Dim relay packs, a DMX network and electrical distribution system provided by Photon Beard. “The existing infrastructure
of the soundstage we wanted to transform was not strong enough to take the load of the professional lighting grid we needed for television production. Projects Department produced a
which enables individual sockets to be controlled from a lighting desk, means that individual lamps can be completely powered down remotely, without the usual power drain even a fully dimmed light consumes. The Non-Dim package designed specifically for Pinewood is now available as a standard Photon Beard product. “One of the beauties of
Power saving: Daffarn with the new Non-Dim Relay Pack at IBC
design that not only enables us to handle the lighting grid but easily reposition its fixtures for any production requirement,” said Pinewood director of broadcast, Paul Darbyshire. Photon Beard’s DMX-
controlled Non-Dim Relay Pack,
researching and resolving issues for specific projects is that so many new ideas emerge, not only in terms of creative problem solving but in developing new procedures and products from which other television, theatre or photographic studios can benefit,” said Projects Department MD, Peter Daffarn.
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CJI settles on new playout platform By Michael Burns
COGNACQ-JAY IMAGE (CJI), the premium French playout services provider, has selected the OASYS platform for multichannel playout. Campagne TV and La chaîne Théâtre channels are now live on-air with l’Enorme TV, GAME ONE and J-ONE
channels which are launching this month. “With this OASYS platform
we offer our clients a new range of integrated high-quality playout services, optimised to meet their specific requirement,” said Alain Lorentz, chief technical director at Cognacq-Jay Image. “Playout can be provided
in SD or HD, with a wide variety of options including graphics, DVE effects, subtitles and flexible redundancy management.” “We are delighted to have been selected by Cognacq-Jay Image as their new playout platform,” said Phil Eade, regional sales manager for OASYS.
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RG Jones carries cables from umpire chair to BBC broadcast
Cables served at Wimbledon Tennis
By Fergal Ringrose
FOR THE millions of people all over the world enjoying the excitement and skills on show at this year’s Wimbledon Tennis Championships, the mystery of how such a stunning event is relayed to the millions watching on TV and those fortunate enough to be in the arena, probably never crosses their minds. For Wimbledon-based sound engineering specialists RG Jones however, it is always in their thoughts.
RG Jones is responsible for the
miles of cabling carrying audio and video signals from the famous old courts to the stands and beyond and carrying the sounds of the courts to the BBC for broadcast worldwide. VDC Trading, manufacturer
of Van Damme cabling, supplied RG Jones Sound Engineering with over 2kms of Brown Series Star Quad Multicore Cable in August for the reconfiguration and relocation of some of the audio systems at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. VDC supplied many kilometres of Black, Purple and Brown series multicores and several drums of FST for use on the permanent installation on the site. These are the cables used during The Championships for the delivery of public address and umpire announcements and interfacing signals with the BBC for TV broadcast. In addition to the installation
cables, VDC also supplied custom-made ‘umbilical’ cables for use on the umpire chairs at Wimbledon. These comprise 16 pair Green Series cable terminated with VDC’s own-design VDM connectors at each end. Alongside the multicore there
are four tour-grade Van Damme TourCat CAT5 cables and a 3x1.5mm power cable. The entire solution is enclosed in a black pliosil sleeve and used to relay data to the umpire score pad and telephone and of course deliver the umpire microphone signal which is in turn distributed to the PA system locally and the BBC for worldwide broadcast.
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www.tvbeurope.com October 2013
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