Game Creek Taps Pesa Switchers for New HD Trucks

Game Creek Video purchased two Pesa Cheetah digital routing switcher systems for installation in "Patriot" and "Yankee Clipper," two 53-foot expando HD production units set to hit the road this spring for live sports and entertainment events. The company's fleet now consists of nine production trucks and seven "B" units.

The selected identical Cheetah systems are mounted in 128x128 frames, populated with HD cards and feature 64 outputs with HD-to-SD downconversion. Each routing system handles SDI and HDTV, and other non-standard digital signals in one frame, for redundant power and control and two outputs per bus. Game Creek also purchased a Cheetah SD analog 256x256 router for routing analog sources throughout the