Harris Corporation announced that VSC Design Ltd., a leading UK-based systems integrator, has completed the installation of a turnkey project for the new HD video duplication and encoding facility at the world-renowned Abbey Road Studios in London using Harris infrastructure and test and measurement products. The contract includes an SD/HD-compliant Leitch Integrator® Gold router, a vast range of Leitch 6800+ series modular products and two Videotek® TVM-950 test and measurement instruments.
“We chose VSC Design to design, build and install the equipment layout and cabling because of their proven track record in the market compounded by the excellent support we have always received from the company,” said Tom Williams, video services manager, Abbey Road Studios. “Our choice of products was based on the fact that the Harris equipment is all SD/HD-compliant and able to seamlessly integrate into our existing infrastructure.” Martyn Hales, managing director at VSC Design, said, “We worked very closely with Harris to select products that integrated the new system into the existing infrastructure at Abbey Road. This project was commissioned, designed and installed within eight weeks and was planned to allow Abbey Road Studios a seamless transition to the new facility with minimal impact to their ongoing business.”
“We are delighted to have secured an order from such a prestigious and well-respected business as Abbey Road Studios and are pleased to collaborate with VSC Design on this project,” said Dave Dougall, vice president of sales, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Harris Broadcast Communications Division. “Abbey Road is well-known for having a technically advanced facility, and this contract is a testament to the high-quality, scalability and performance of the Harris product portfolio.”
With 100 percent digital signal processing technology, the Videotek® TVM-950 provides accurate, stable display of single or multiple Waveform, Vector, Gamut, Audio, Picture, Timing and Data Analyser functions in quadrant or full-screen views for HD/SD-SDI. The TVM-950 is capable of monitoring and displaying up to four input sources simultaneously. This precision test instrument includes advanced analysis tools, an extensive alarm set with peak level reporting, metadata, EIA-608, 708 closed caption, Teletext and XDS displays. It also monitors eight channels of analog, AES/EBU and embedded audio, with CineSound® Surround display, Dolby Digital® and Dolby® E decoding. Remote interfaces include 10/100 BaseT Ethernet and USB ports, supporting frame-capture transfer and mouse control. The TVM-950 is the flagship of the TVM series, which features a user-friendly interface with illuminated front-panel controls, a streamlined, context-sensitive pop-up menu structure and an ultra-quiet cooling system, with a modular platform design for easy field upgrades.
The 6800+ is a high-quality processing platform that provides all core processing and distribution functions in analog, SD, HD, and optical formats. Products are designed with a “core function per module” concept that ensures straightforward system designs with lower costs and higher performance. Based on the renowned 6800 platform, the 6800+ platform has been redesigned to offer integrated control and monitoring and is SNMP-friendly. The 6800+ offers a modern, future-proofed solution for any core processing infrastructure requirements.
The Integrator® Gold wideband digital multi-rate router has the capability of routing signals from 3 Mb/s to 1.5 Gb/s and offers a clear growth path from lower bit rate AES, SDI and ASI to high-bandwidth, high-definition format signals. The 8RU Integrator® Gold can easily scale from 8×8 to 128×128 in multiples of 8 I/O, and features include redundant power supplies, redundant logic cards and easy-to-use, front-loading, hot-swap capability. Integrator® Gold provides complete digital format support: HD, SDI, AES, ASI and common Telco rates and an option for SDI only. Additionally, new Integrator® Gold encoder and decoder modules support analog video via high-quality 10-bit conversion.