Pro-Bel continues US market innovation with Masterpiece & Sirius Gold

Pro-Bel, the premier manufacturer and supplier of routing switchers, signal processing, master control and automation technologies, is continuing its policy of technological innovations that bring real customer rewards with the US debuts of its Masterpiece and Sirius Gold technologies at NAB 2005.
Pro-Bel has developed Masterpiece as both an HD upgrade path for the existing TX520 - already widely deployed on a global basis - and as a cost-effective choice for new customers.
Masterpiece benefits from a range of new features while making use of key resources from the TX Range. As part of Masterpiece, Pro-Bel has developed a new, high definition mixer that can either be specified from new or purchased as an upgrade for the TX520. The HD mixer can be used to upgrade existing SD video mixers, and benefits from two keyers, with the ability to place a DVE into the signal chain before or after either keyer.
Masterpiece provides fast and effortless configuration options and benefits from a completely new panel, with a versatile touch screen operating under a Windows environment. This is based on the company's widely used Procion technology allowing configuration not only from the physical control panel but from any PC linked to the system.
Using Ethernet connectivity, an almost limitless number of mixer control cards and panels can be linked together to provide a comprehensive, facility-wide master control solution.
Pro-Bel is also introducing the extended Sirius router family with the Sirius Gold. Sirius routers are used extensively in the US with recent sales including WBGU-PBS in Ohio, Deluxe Digital across several of its sites, Charlex in New York and WUSF in Florida.
Sirius Gold features router sizes of 512 x 512 and above, allowing the company to satisfy a growing demand for larger router sizes while allowing customers to benefit from the Sirius range's inherent signal processing flexibility.
Neil Maycock, Chief Technical Officer with Pro-Bel, said: "We have experienced huge demand for our products in the US over the past year and these two innovations will allow us to further satisfy a market that is constantly moving forwards. We look forward to continuing to work with our growing US customer base and providing it with products that help increase profitability."
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