The latest OB truck from BTS is a particularly cool van built for the iPad generation. It features technical innovations inside the vehicle and a new Monitoring Alarming Interaction and Display Solution (MAIDS) that allows monitoring from outside the truck from a tablet computer like the iPad.
BTS OB Van has been designed for extreme conditions. It was built for Qatar TV as part of an €8.5m contract, and “had to work in a desert environment with temperatures of 55º and higher,” explained Bernd Wohlfarth, BTS sales and marketing manager. It has three particularly powerful, redundant, independent air conditioning systems, plus air-sealed doors that use a stream of high-pressure air (with blowers either side of the entrances) to prevent even a sand storm from blowing in dust.
It is a spacious truck using a full-length 1.6m expanding side that provides more headroom than usual thanks to a patented weight-saving design. It is being delivered with eight Grass Valley cameras, but pre-wired for 14. It also has: a 4M/E Grass Valley Kayak switcher with Kayenne XL control panel; Trinix 3G 192×288 router with built-in multiviewers; VSM control system; Vizrt Trio character generator; Lynx glue equipment; two Sony HD Cam tape decks and two XD Cam disc recorders; Sony OLED monitors and Pixtron Broadcast LCD displays; Tektronix measuring and synch equipment; Lawo mc2 56 audio console; and a Reidel Artist 128 intercom system.
Pixtron Broadcast will be exhibiting at the upcoming IBC2013, September 12 – 17, RAI Amsterdam. Drop by the Pixtron Broadcast stand # 10.A42.
