Bel Digital Audio’s new 3G HD/SDI audio and audio/video confidence monitors are in action at the Roland Garos Grand Slam tennis tournament in Paris, where leading dry hire and fly-away equipment and service specialist Presteigne Charter has installed 16-channel devices in the broadcast centre used by major US broadcasters.
‘The three essential criteria for this kind of project are a high level of functionality and flexibility, ease and speed of use, and the smallest dimensions achievable when you consider the limited confines the control room team are working within,’ says Roy Callow, Director of Projects at Presteigne Charter.
Both the BM-A1-E16SHD audio monitor and the BM-AV1-E16SHD audio and video monitor enable extracting and monitoring of all 16 audio channels embedded in two 3G/HD or SD SDI video streams, plus the ability to monitor multiple analogue and digital audio sources. The units are configured quickly using intuitive front panel controls, with metering on eight high-resolution bargraph meters.
‘Bel’s solution to configuration was ideal for our needs,’ Callow says. ‘When you are configuring via a touch screen or complex menu structures and speed is of the essence, it is easy get it wrong and it takes time to correct. With the rotary controls, you just turn the control. Bel enables the operator to have the confidence in monitoring the correct signals on the device.’
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