Press release from Well Above
At this year’s Melbourne Cup and Spring Carnival Sky Racing, the world leader in multi-venue, multi-channel race broadcasting, trialled the award-winning TVUPack 8100 3G backpack supplied by Magna Systems to help perform live crosses to the studio, store and forward and supply track updates.
Magna Systems Product Specialist David Clemesha said, “Sky Racing telecasts more than 82,000 races each year to millions of viewers in Australia and around the globe. For this year’s Melbourne Cup and Spring Carnival they were looking for a high quality 3G backpack which would help their cameramen on the ground get better pictures to the studio quickly and more efficiently. The TVUPack 8100 was the perfect tool for the kind of un-tethered requirements they had.”
The TVUPack 8100 leads the way in 3G backpacks in both SD and HD. Already in use at over 100 broadcast stations around the world, the latest technology developed for the TVUPack 8100, allows it to accept HD/SDI camera signals, transmit in HD and output in full HD over wireless and mobile networks. This means cameramen can easily deliver an HD quality signal using the mobile broadcasting backpack. The TVUPack also features HD output in 720p or 1080i at 25 or 30 frames per second with its SDI interface.
Clemesha continued, “The TVUPack 8100 also allows remote operation from the studio master control room leaving the camera operator to focus solely on getting the best footage possible.”
The compact TVUPack 8100 also has advanced networking and compression technologies with its high-powered H.264 video encoding engine delivering a vivid HD signal, even with limited bandwidth. TVU's Variable Bit Rate (VBR) technology automatically adjusts the bit-rate according to the total available aggregated bandwidth. TVU's Inverse StatMux technology allows the TVUPack to fully utilise the available bandwidth of multiple 3G/4G data connections. The combination of these technologies ensures that the TVUPack is able to deliver the best and most stable pictures possible.