New CTVS Heavyweight Champ – The CTVS OBV-1

The biggest and heaviest member of the CTVS fleet – the new CTVS OBV-1 fulfills all their clients' wishes. No matter if the request is for a live sporting event, a recorded teleconference of global importance, or a multi-venue entertainment show, CTVS now has the muscle to bring even the most demanding of projects to realization.

The OBV-1 is a fully digital SD remote broadcast production studio inside a 40-ton truck with an expandable side unit. It is designed specifically to cover large-scale broadcast operations, such as sports, entertainment, and concerts.

The OBV-1 offers separate compartments for audio, video directing, vision control, EVS and VTR/editing. It can be equipped with twelve or more digital camera chains and handles up to 42 input channels. With its state of the art SSL 80-channel digital audio mixer and multi track recording it is very versatile and of course particularly suitable for concerts.

The OBV trailer is accompanied by a 14-ton support vehicle, making an unbeatable team when faced with a rigorous schedule under tight deadlines with the most complex of requirements. The new heavyweight champ, CTVS OBV-1, are one more reason to place your important productions into the more than capable hands of the CTVS Crew. The advanced technical equipment together with an experienced and committed CTVS team has proven great production results time and again.

Technical specifications

Power: 125AMP CEE with 400V

Length: 16.75m, Height: 4m, Weight 31tons

Wide: 2.50m, 3.50m (expanded)

Video:

- Up to 12 Thomson LDK triax camera chains

- 8 large lens adapters with 5” and 7” studio viewfinder

- Canon/Fujinon lenses

- DD30/5 vision mixer with 32channel input

- Software controlled digital video matrix

- Freely configurable UMDs for all monitors

- 2-channel DVE and 2-channel frame-store

- Quantel graphic system

- 4-channel HDD server (Sony MAV-555)

- Drake digital intercom

Vision control:

- Class 1 14” monitor rack

- Tektronix Waveforms/Vectorscopes

- Master control unit for RCP

- Redundant digital video matrix

- Additional workspace for graphics/slow motion effects

- Drake digital intercom (4000)

Sound:

- 2x 40-channel digital audio-mixer SSL

- DAT Recorder, MOD Recorder

- CD Player, Mini Disc

- IFB and ISDN codec (G722)

- Multi track recording (up to 48-channels)

- Additional workspace for intercom engineer

- 2 stage-boxes with fiber optic connection

VTR/EVS/editing:

- Up to 8 VTRs (Digital Betacam, BetacamSX, IMX)

- Up to 2 6-channel EVS systems

- 128x128 video matrix

- Software controlled redundant video matrix

- BVE-2000 editing system

- BTS DD5 vision mixer

- Yamaha O92 digital audio mixer