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Accom® Products Play Integral Part in Look of HD Broadcast of Super Bowl | |
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MENLO PARK, California – As Super Bowl XXXVIII gets underway on Sunday, February 1st, the largest television viewing audience will undoubtedly be wowed by the live High Definition (HD) production that will be broadcast on CBS. Accom, Inc. (ACMM.PK), a leading manufacturer of broadcast and professional video equipment is proud to announce that two of its products, the Abekas® Dveous®/MX Digital Video Effects (DVE) system, and the Abekas® 6000 DTV Video Production server will be used during this year's live broadcast from Reliant Stadium in Houston. With the sales of HD television displays on the rise, and the increasing availability of HD programming, the transition from Standard Definition (SD) to HD television is in full swing. Accom is committed to this transition by offering products that are capable of working in HD as well as SD standards. Junaid Sheikh, Chairman and CEO of Accom said, “The broadcast of live sports in HD has been the primary driver for the increased sales of HDTV displays. Highly watched HD events like the Super Bowl accelerate the acceptance of HD by the consumers, hence, encouraging more broadcasters to gear up for HD. We are very proud that Dveous MX has in a very short period of time, become the defacto standard for effects machines in the HD world.” NEP Supershooters, one of the nation's leading providers of remote television broadcast facilities for the sports and entertainment industries, will use their Dveous/MX during the Super Bowl to create the main show's digital effects. Dveous®/MX, the new Universal Format DVE provides broadcast professionals with the capability of creating stunning video effects in either SD or HD formats all from within the same unit. In the case of the Super Bowl, NEP will be using the system in its full Dual Twin HD capacity. "Dveous is a major part of our operation," said NEP Supershooters Chief Engineer Jeff Joslin. "We will be using one of our Dveous/MX DVEs to create the main show digital effects, and we have over 20 dual-twin machines in our existing trucks. They’ve given us excellent performance and it’s a real advantage that Dveous/MX is operationally identical to the existing machines. We’ve had Technical Directors really surprised and delighted that they can load their effects from previous SD shows straight into the Dveous/MX and use them in HD without any problem at all." All Mobile Video (AMV), another one of the country's leading providers of remote television broadcast facilities for the sports and entertainment industries, will also be an integral part of the Super Bowl show with their Resolution mobile truck which will act as the “Tape Release” truck for the numerous replay sources required by a show of this size, and their Cinetour mobile truck which has been outfitted with an Abekas 6000 DTV Video Production Server. The Abekas 6000 will be used to capture live feeds during the game and rapidly edit them to create the bumpers used for transitioning in and out of commercials. AMV will be taking advantage of Accom's latest enhanced Ethernet API protocol for interfacing the Abekas 6000 to the Editware Fastrack editing systems. This enhanced feature enables the operator to have all of the flexibility of a nonlinear edit system with none of the drawbacks. "If we used a traditional nonlinear edit system, first we would have to digitize all of the material into the system, and then if we did any effects, we would have to wait for material to render," explained Michael Shore, AMV Technical Supervisor. "With an Avid, let's say, you can only digitize one feed at a time, or you can digitize a couple of feeds with their Unity system and at that level it gets very big and very expensive," continued Shore. "With the Abekas 6000 and the Editware Fastrack, I will be live recording six different sources and using two channels as playout which will enable me to rapidly turnaround game elements for in-game bumpers. By doing this, I get the flexibility of a GUI based editor so I can drag and drop clips, and open up or shrink the timeline as we find better shots. It's totally flexible, unlike a traditional linear suite, yet I still retain the use of my switcher, mixer and DVE for real-time effects," he said. |
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