...new 10-channel HD OB van with an extensive deployment of Snell equipment. Beijing-based systems integrator Sanitec supplied UTV with a Kahuna multi-format production switcher, Pyxis router, Kudos Plus TBS800 SD/HD/3Gbps format converter, and IQ Modular infrastructure. These advanced systems, which represent UTV's most significant broadcast equipment investment to date, will support high-quality live broadcasting of news, sports events, and various entertainment shows.

Snell's Kahuna production switcher combines a comprehensive and versatile feature set with innovative signal processing capability. Kahuna offers simultaneous SD and HD operation in the same mainframe with a single control panel. Its advanced FormatFusion pixel-filtering technology enables UTV to integrate any SD material—such as hand-held camera feeds, graphics, or archive material—into HD productions seamlessly, without upconversion.

The Kudos Plus TBS800 format converter with timebase synchronizer (TBS) capabilities provides the new UTV OB van with multi-rate 3Gbps, HD, and SD inputs and outputs, and is capable of motion adaptive up/down/crossconversion within the same frame rate. A high-density, mid-size router ideal for the mobile production environment, Snell's Pyxis router assures both flexibility and reliability in routing signals in all common broadcast formats.