Accom Outfits Mobile HD Production Trucks

Three mobile truck companies contracted by ESPN to cover HD sports have chosen Accom's DVE platform. Four new mobile units from NMT, NEP Supershooters and NCP are equipped with the Abekas Dveous HD multi-format editor. NMT has 46 mobile trucks, three of which are equipped for HD, and more than two dozen Abekas Dveous

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Apr 2, 2003
Updated on: Feb 23, 2018

Three mobile truck companies contracted by ESPN to cover HD sports have chosen Accom's DVE platform. Four new mobile units from NMT, NEP Supershooters and NCP are equipped with the Abekas Dveous HD multi-format editor.

NMT has 46 mobile trucks, three of which are equipped for HD, and more than two dozen Abekas Dveous systems in its SD trucks. NEP Supershooters used Dveous HD to shoot the Academy Awards and has over 20 dual-twin machines currently in its trucks.

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Accom designs and manufactures a line of digital video production, disk recording and editing tools for the broadcast industry.

The companies will use the digital video effects platform in its trucks to enhance coverage of ESPN HD games.

The HD production of Sunday's Super Bowl will feature the Abekas Dveous/MX Digital Video Effects (DVE) system and an Abekas 6000 DTV video production server. NEP Supershooters will use Dveous/MX to create the main show's digital effects in the systems's full dual-twin HD capacity. All Mobile Video will use its Resolut

Calif.-based Accom will display its new products at IBC2004 in September. The APR.ClipStore is an SD digital disk recorder housed in a 3 RU chassis. Dveous/MX is the universal format digital video effects system that broadcasters can use in SD or HD formats. Abekas 6000 is a production server that adds HDTV hardwa

The 45th Grammy Awards were broadcast in HD for the first time on CBS Feb. 23 with the help of Accom's Dveous/HD Digital Video Effects system, which created high-def transitions and graphical elements. Accom's Dveous/HD has the same feature set as its SD counterpart and can be configured as a single twin or dual twin

The newest HDTV trucks from mobile production companies NCP, NEP and NMT will be equipped with HD lenses made by Canon as well as the first Canon 100xs lenses. The trucks and lenses will be used by ESPN and ABC Sports to produce an expected 100 HD events in 2003. Canon is targeting the DIGI Super 100xs, the world's fi

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Three mobile production companies have committed to building five all-HD broadcast trucks and equipping them with Thomson Grass Valley HD production equipment.

Chicago-based mobile production company Trio Video is outfitting "Tango," its first HD truck, with nine Fujinon HD studio- and ENG-style lenses. Trio's new 53-foot rig, expected to hit the road by the end of the year, is also equipped with nine Grass Valley LDK 6000 mkII HD cameras. Trio Video owner Jack Walsh says t

The Weather Channel recently purchased two Accom Dveous/MX universal-format digital video effects (DVE) systems for two production control rooms. The network is currently working in SD, but an eventual upgrade to HD should be simple and require no retraining, according to Michael Smereski, Chief Engineer at The Weathe