ESPN’s new HD Broadcast Center infrastructure will be based on Grass Valley switchers, cameras, routers, and modular products from Thomson. The deal, worth $15.5 million, will include several Kalypso switchers, LDK 6000 mk II multi-format HD cameras, Kameleon modular products, Trinix video routing, and Apex audio routing. With one of the largest routing systems on the East Coast, multiple Trinix routers will be combined for a 1024x512 HD matrix, pairing with an equally dense 1500x800 Apex audio router, which will convert all incoming audio sources to multichannel AES/EBU audio. The routers will operate under the control of a Grass Valley Encore facility control system.

Thomson Grass Valley will introduce several new products at IBC2003.

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Thomson Grass Valley has announced that the NBC Station Group will be installing its Edius nonlinear editing software throughout its NBC and Telemundo stations. The software will mainly be used on laptop computers for field editing by ENG crews. Edius is positioned as a core piece of Grass Valley’s digital newsroom

Mobile production company Gearhouse Broadcast has purchased an undisclosed number of Grass Valley LDK 6000 mkII World Cam HD cameras from Thomson. Gearhouse plans to use the cameras on its global rental and fly-pack projects, which is now being launched in the U.S. The cameras will include a 5-inch HD viewfinder and