Eyeheight Equipment Chosen For European Parliament

Eyeheight has announced the award of a substantial order from the European Parliament in Brussels.
Placed via Eyeheight's Belgian reseller, AV Group, the contract includes the supply of equipment for four transmission rooms contributing EU-related editorial content to several EBU-member networks.
Two additional transmission systems (main and auxiliary) are also being equipped, contributing to the Europe by Satellite channel (EbS), the multilingual free-to-air television news service of the European Union.
The order was won by the systems division of Brussels-based AV Group, Eyeheight's Belgian reseller.
Peter Natowicz, AV Group's Product Manager, commented: "The project's objective was the renewal and extension of the Brussels Transmission facilities for the European Parliament's Audiovisual Unit. A tender for the project was issued in October 2007 and several system integrators submitted their bid. Eyeheight developed an extensive customised solution and modified the TK-10 control panels with programmable keys to comply fully with the project's requirements."
Each transmission channel comprises an Eyeheight LS-2 SDI line sychroniser, a BF-2 fade-to-black module, a DK-2 down-stream keyer and an L1-1DS logo inserter programmed as a frame store. All functions are under manual control using Eyeheight FP-10 set-up control panels and TK-10 auxiliary control surfaces.
Additionally, the EbS transmission room has an Eyeheight vista A/B vision mixer and an OL-2 SDI legaliser installed in line with an external input feed to the main output matrix. All modules are housed in five Eyeheight FB-9E 1 U chassis with redundant power supplies.
EbS is an inter-institutional TV service established in 1996 which provides broadcast-quality, up-to-the-minute and free-of-charge audiovisual coverage of EU news to media professionals and other interested parties around the world.
It offers live transmissions of EU news through the SIRIUS IV satellite and through the EbS portal on the Europa server. The EbS signal can be received across the entire European Union including the Canary Islands as well as North Africa, the Middle East, the US East Coast and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
A globally-active innovator in broadcast-quality video and audio engineering, Eyeheight designs and manufactures a wide range of SDI/HD-SDI equipment for use in programme-origination, quality assurance, post-production, master-control and associated areas.
Eyeheight products centre on a modular platform with Ethernet control and monitoring for easy connection to other devices and to external automation.
Eyeheight will be on Stand I-46 at BVE2009, Earls Court 2, London, February 17-19.
Further information is available at: www.eyeheight.com.
(KMcA/BMcC)