Fort Worth Television (FWTV) partners with its community to produce diverse, informative and innovative programs for and about the City of Fort Worth, Texas. When it set out to replace the outdated cameras in its City Hall meeting rooms, it purchased nine DK-H200 box cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America to improve the quality of its civic meeting coverage on television and online. […]
At North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham, N.C., the mission of the Department of Mass Communication’s NCCU TV Studio is to train students in the professional world of visual broadcast production through engaging instruction and critical hands-on experience. Renovating the studio with new state-of-the-art equipment, the university purchased three SK-UHD4000 Ultra HD cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America (Hitachi Kokusai) to provide high-quality, […]
At Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Mo., the department of Mass Media’s TV & Film program offers an intensive, hands-on curriculum in which students work on a wide variety of programming that is broadcast on local television affiliates, streamed live on ESPN+ and entered into the university’s annual film festival. When the department needed to upgrade […]
A Sight To See: Cameras In Focus At NAB
With broadcasters making plans to move to an ATSC 3.0 future that supports 4K and — more immediately — looking to leverage IP, the cloud and other technologies to improve workflows, the cameras at this year’s NAB Show will reflect the efforts of vendors to understand the evolving needs of broadcasters and address those requirements with their latest designs. Above, JVC’s GY-HM2005P. For a resources guide to the companies mentioned in this story, click here.
Hitachi and LiveU entered into a partnership that integrates the bonded cellular company’s LU40 video uplink pack with all of Hitachi’s professional video cameras, allowing users to view and manage LiveU’s transmission status and video quality in real-time, through the camera’s viewfinder. Hitachi and LiveU are also working on a sales solution, where Hitachi would […]
Hitachi Ltd and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will likely suspend talks to combine some infrastructure-related businesses, and chances of a full merger appear slim, sources with knowledge of the matter Thursday.
Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. have begun talks on what would be Japan’s biggest ever domestic merger, three sources say, heralding a long-awaited shake-up of the nation’s sprawling industrial behemoths.
The new cameras’ primary design concept is full compliance with the SMPTE424M standard. The cameras employ a new 1080/60p native-scan ultra-advanced 2/3-inch, Interline CCDs (UAIT) that Hitachi says ensures the most accurate color reproduction and highest picture detail.
Vermont Public Television (VPT) — Vermont’s statewide PBS network — purchased four Hitachi SK-HD1000 digital HDTV studio cameras as part of an extensive HDTV production upgrade at its Colchester, Vt., broadcast television facility. “We chose the Hitachi SK-HD1000 after a year of exhaustive, comparative research and testing of all major HDTV studio cameras on the […]
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KCWC Upgrades Truck With Hitachi
Wyoming PBS affiliate KCWC Casper-Riverton (DMA 196) purchased four Hitachi SK-HD1000 multiformat HDTV cameras as part of the planned upgrade of its 32-foot digital production truck equipped with a 2.4-meter Ku-Band satellite uplink dish. The station is licensed to Central Wyoming College in Riverton. The truck travels across the state, producing multicamera remote video productions, […]