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News Release from: Fischer Connectors | Subject: 1053 fibre-optic connectors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 February 2006
Fibre connectors enable Olympic outside
broadcasts
Switzerland's largest television production company is equipping its new HDTV outside broadcast production vehicle with novel fibre-optic HDTV broadcast camera connectors.
Following a period of exhaustive testing, Switzerland's largest television production company, tv productioncentre zurich (TPC), has selected Fischer Connectors to equip its new HDTV outside broadcast production vehicle with the innovative 1053 fibre-optic HDTV broadcast camera connectors The new 1053 connector is significantly faster and easier to terminate
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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TPC's new OB vehicle will be used to televise Ski-Alpine Downhill and Super-G skiing competitions scheduled for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
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Featuring vision mixers, LMD series monitors as well as 24 Sony HD cameras and CCUs, the OB vehicle is also equipped with 10 x 100m cables (Fischer SE 1053/KE 1053 cable mounted plug and receptacle terminations), 12 x 200m cables (Fischer SE 1053/KE 1053 cable mounted plug and receptacle terminations) and 15 internal links.
The equipment was supplied directly to Sony Europe to be commissioned into its new HDTV outside broadcast vehicle located in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Fischer's 1053 HDTV broadcast camera connectors are designed to offer a lower total installation cost and solve the problem facing many camera manufacturers, mobile truck providers, production centres and broadcast studios who have been waiting to make an effortless transition to fibre-based HDTV cameras.
"Major sporting events like the Winter Olympics in Turin pose arduous conditions for HDTV OB units".
"The 1053 connector's ease of field assembly is ideal for outside broadcast applications operating in extreme environments".
"In many outside broadcast environments camera down time has to be minimised", says Peter Orrell, Managing Director of Fischer Connectors UK.
"At a major sporting event a broadcaster simply cannot afford the time to send a camera back to a repair centre to fix its connector".
"The new connector now makes it both practical and economical to field-assemble and field-repair HDTV camera connectors anywhere even in harsh, icy conditions".
"The connector's design eliminates the difficult procedure of precisely polishing fibre-optic elements as well as preparing and using special epoxies".
Codeveloped in an exclusive partnership with Corning, the 1053 Series combines the field-tested reliability of Fischer's established broadcast triax connectors with proven technology such as Corning's UniCam "no epoxy - no polish" fibre-optic contacts that have been successfully employed in many broadcast industry venues, as well as in high volumes for years by the telecommunications industry.
The new low optical loss HDTV connector incorporates the Corning's reliable UniCam contacts within Fischer's field proven 1051 triax connector body.
The triax connector range has been a leading standard for the international camera broadcast market for decades and has been offering proven performance for decades.
Testing on the 1053 connector shows that its fully sealed and strong connector body provides outstanding resistance to rough field shooting conditions such as extreme climate, crushing of forklift trucks and other weight or tensions that cables could undergo.
SMPTE signal-compliant, the new 1053 HDTV camera connector features two single-mode fibre contacts, two high-voltage contacts and two low-voltage signal contacts.
Eliminating unnecessary optical connections throughout the signal path results in fewer contacts to clean and a lower signal loss. Request a free brochure from Fischer Connectors ...
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