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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 6 | June 2015

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Hitachi Showcases OB-BOX Concept
& 4K Ultra-HDTV Cameras

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t BroadcastAsia, Hitachi Kokusai
Electric Turkey showcased the
company's new OB-BOX concept,
which it claims offers new levels of
Outside Broadcast (OB) operational
flexibility, cost-efficiency and technical
performance right up to ultra-HDTV
capabilities.
Also at BroadcastAsia, Hitachi
Kokusai Turkey showcased the SKUHD4000 4K Ultra-HDTV broadcast
camera system. First introduced at IBC
last September, the camera system
provides the market's most elegant
4K UHD upgrade pathway since it can
use the 2/3-inch B4 mount lenses
found in conventional HD broadcast
cameras. This enables broadcasters
to use their existing lenses and shoot
video in 4K resolution, while at the
same time retaining the easy handling
and operability of broadcast cameras
currently in use.
The SK-UHD4000 is equipped
with a newly developed 2/3-inch

MOS sensor, which enables high
sensitivity and resolution video images
whilst significantly reducing power
consumption.
Newly developed at Hitachi's
Istanbul-based design and engineering
facility, OB-BOX is a fully featured
modular OB facility, which is delivered
to the customer and then mounted
onto a vehicle's chassis using a
proprietary fixing kit. This approach
significantly reduces the manufacture
and delivery time in any market
worldwide since it removes the need to
source and ship an appropriate vehicle
for each customer.
The OB-BOX comes in three different
configurations which support four,
eight and 12 production cameras. The
option of a booth side extension adds
further flexibility to unit sizing. In
addition, an ability to connect two OBBOX units in a cascade configuration
adds more versatility and facilitates
many different sizes of OB unit up to

20 camera mobile facilities.
Each OB-BOX unit provides
all of the video, audio,
transmission and infrastructure
capabilities
needed
to
create a stand-alone Outside
Broadcast facility. The technical
specification of the unit is such that
it will support any broadcast signal
from serial digital to HD and even
4K. Alongside satellite and fibre
connectivity, the units integrate
powerful Ethernet connectivity, which
provides the production team with
internet facilities on site. At the same
time, OB-BOX features sophisticated
Cloud capabilities, which enable the
users to send 4K content back to
the broadcaster's production centre
quickly and easily.
Attention has been paid to the
facility's internal design, monitor
and control systems, air conditioning
and weather proofing in order to
create a comfortable working space

OB-BOX is a new and radically different
approach to the OB challenge

irrespective of external environmental
conditions.
Adding further value to its
BroadcastAsia technology showcase,
Hitachi Kokusai Turkey exhibited
a number of different broadcast
camera systems that can be deployed
with OB-BOX. These camera systems
include the company's market leading
SK-UHD4000 4K Ultra-HDTV camera,
SK-HD1500 Super Slow Motion camera,
new version Wireless camera systems
together with the company's latest 3
MOS sensor series cameras - the SKHD1300 and Z-HD6000 - as well as the
DK-H100 POV Box camera with robotic
pan-tilt system.
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