Challenge

Today, emerging technologies, multiple video formats (HD, UHD, SDR, HDR) and budget constraints are the three main aspects that a System Integrator (SI) has to keep in mind in order to deliver solid, functional and cost-effective OB vans. Following the proliferation of numerous video formats, media content rights owners require several video distribution formats of the same event, which can be produced for multiple customers and delivered over several platforms to different regions. For instance a football match could be produced in HD-SDR, HD-HDR and UHD-HDR and delivered by two broadcasters over satellite, DTT and OTT.

In such a complex market, producing multiple high quality contents in a cost effective way, allows OB production services to satisfy multiple customers and optimize OPEX and CAPEX investments.

Solution

In order to satisfy the market requests described above, NVP asked for an OB van with two completely separate production control rooms (PCRs), capable of producing SD, HD, UHD, SDR and HDR video and capable of leveraging the latest technologies such as IP.

At Video Progetti we welcomed the challenge of designing, integrating and building the OB van requested by the NVP technical team.

In the first stage of the project the Video Progetti system team and NVP technical department had several meetings in order to define the main requirements of the van.

As a result of these meetings Video Progetti solution architects designed a system which integrated all the latest technologies and best-suited our customer’s needs. Once project timing had been defined by the project manager and had been approved by the customer, in only six months Video Progetti technical department built the 14-metre OB van. Once the OB van was delivered, Video Progetti qualified trainers gave operational support to the customer during initial productions.