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Turkey's National Broadcaster
TRT Selects Litepanels Fixtures
T

he Turkish Radio and Television
Corporation (TRT) has selected
a range of ﬁxtures from LED lighting
pioneer Litepanels, for its brand
new studios in the company's
Ankara headquarters.
The two studios, home to the
network's rolling and hourly news
programmes, have recently been
installed with 82 of Litepanels'
renowned 1x1 Mono daylight
ﬁxtures, together with range of 2x1
manual yokes, which mount two 1x1
ﬁxtures side-by-side.
TRT has been operating out of
its Ankara base for more than 40
years, and transmits a wide array
of international and domestic
programmes, from news and
live sports, to popular music and
magazine programmes.
Litepanels' regional partner in
Turkey, Asimetrik Sound Lighting
and Visual Systems, managed the

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Litepanels provided "a signiﬁcant reduction" in air conditioning and energy bills

TRT installation.
Mehmet Sabri Erman, Asimetrik's
Project Manager said: "In the past
TRT used traditional tungsten
lighting in its studios and since
the introduction of the Litepanels
ﬁxtures the organisation has seen
a significant reduction in its air
conditioning and energy bills.
"The cost savings have been

substantial, and TRT has also
been equally impressed with the
outstanding quality of light from the
1x1 fixtures.
The Litepanels family of one-foot
square LED arrays offers a number
of options with daylight, tungsten,
variable colour and variable focus
ﬁxtures that output the company's
signature full spectrum white light.

Video Europe Ramps Up With Sony Gear
L

ondon-based, Video Europe
has bolstered its existing Sony
camera line up with a multi-million
investment in Sony's HDC-2500
system cameras.
This investment rounds off a year
of continued expansion for Video
Europe which has committed over
£4 million in Sony's latest camera

technologies.
"In an asset intensive industry such
as the media and broadcast rental
sector it's absolutely essential to
have access to the latest and most
cutting edge equipment on the
market. When Sony unveiled its
PMW-F5 and PMW-F55 cameras
last year we knew instantly that they
would be one of the hottest products
of 2013 and represented the leadingedge large sensor cameras on the
market. We were quick to capitalise
on the phenomenal popularity of the
F Series, and are pleased to now
be expanding our ﬂeet even further
Sony's HDC-2500 live production camera
features 3G 1080/50P transmission

with this investment
in Sony's latest system
cameras," said Steve Green,
Managing Director at Video Europe.
The HDC-2500 is Sony's ﬂagship
live production camera, featuring 3G
1080/50P transmission as standard,
as well as a 2/3-inch CCD sensor.
The camera's ability to record in
multiple formats from 1080/100i to
1080/24p makes it one of the most
flexible and adaptable cameras
currently available.
This latest investment in Sony's
HDC-2500s bolsters the company's
Sony portfolio, which includes both
XDCAM decks as well as Sony's
Super 35mm 4K CineAlta F5
and F55 cameras.

Thunderbolt 2
Sonnet PCIe
USA: Sonnet Technologies is shipping
its Echo Express III-D (desktop),
Echo Express III-R (rackmount),
and Echo Express SE II (desktop).
Thunderbolt-to-PCI Express (PCIe)
card expansion chassis are the ﬁrst
devices of their kind to ship with 20
Gb/sec Thunderbolt 2 interfaces.
These models enable any
Mac computer equipped with
Thunderbolt 2 or Thunderbolt ports
to interface with a wide variety of
high-performance PCIe cards
originally designed only for use in
desktop computers.

ProAm Grows
Iris LCD Line
USA: ProAm USA has added to its
Iris LCD product line: the ProAm
7" Iris Pro HD and 10" Iris Pro XL
on-camera/crane LCD monitors.
ProAm's Iris LCDs provide camera
operators with displays that have
versatile mounting options and inputs.
With a 1024x600 high-resolution
image, the ProAm 10" XL LCD
Monitor is the largest screen
available and provides an optimal
viewing experience.

Sony Pro's
UWP-D Mics
GBR: Sony's Hybrid Digital Processing
UWP-D wireless microphone
series promises to deliver for ENG,
ﬁeld production and DSLR users.
The
compact
UWP-D
series are available in three
packages all with a portable
receiver: UWP-D11 - belt-pack
transmitter; UWP-D12 - handheld
microphone; UWP-D16 - plug-on
transmitter, belt-pack transmitter.
The series employs wide frequency
coverage, with a bandwidth of up
to 72 MHz available and users
can select from up to 2880
operating frequencies.

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