TV Cultura Adds a Half Dozen Gra Valley LDX Cameras for Enhanced News Production

(27/03/2015) S o Paulo-based TV Cultura has been relying on solutions from Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, to provide overall operational excellence in its studios for almost a decade. So when the time came to upgrade its cameras, the choice was an easy one. Six new LDX Flex cameras with XCU base stations are coming online to provide improved image quality and flexibility for the future.

These new cameras will fit in perfectly with our existing GV STRATUS system to provide a robust news studio solution that takes our production quality and efficiency to the next level, noted Gilvani Molleta, director of engineering and technology for TV Cultura. Knowing that we can upgrade the cameras with a simple software license brings us peace of mind. We'll be ready for whatever opportunities arise in the future, and we know that this is an investment that is secure for the long run.

The LDX Flex camera, for single-format 1080i or 720p acquisition, offers a feature set optimized for many studio-type applications and is easily upgradeable as customer needs change. The LDX Series of cameras ensures that customers are always Future-Ready by making it easy to upgrade from model to model, all the way to the most advanced camera available.

The XCU (eXchangeable Control Unit) base stations can be premounted and prewired in the rack, making a secure mechanical and electrical connection that enables users to easily slide them in and out whenever needed. Each XCU comes with one cradle, though additional cradles may be used to extend usability across different locations, such as OB vans, studios or any other site.

TV Cultura is a loyal customer that has deep experience with our technology, and we understand their business and their goals, said Cristiano Barbieri, key account manager, Brazil, Grass Valley. This kind of long-term relationship is very important to us and really signifies our commitment to working as a strategic partner with our customers. We don't want to just sell equipment; we want to play a role in their success.

In addition to the LDX Flex cameras and XCU base stations installed this year, TV Cultura already has K2 Summit servers, EDIUS editing software, GV STRATUS and other Grass Valley solutions. The company has one of the largest K2 and K2-SAN production systems in Brazil, and enjoys effective collaboration across its broadcast environment.

About Grass Valley

The new Grass Valley keeps broadcasters, content owners and service providers future-ready as they navigate the changing landscape of television. With the most comprehensive collection of workflow solutions in the industry, Grass Valley delivers end-to-end television production and content distribution workflows that enable the efficiency and flexibility broadcasters need to stay competitive today while offering technological foresight they need to keep pace with consumers' desires for more content on more devices. Grass Valley, headquartered in Montreal, leverages the collective expertise and depth of the Grass Valley Group and Miranda Technologies, each having been acquired by St. Louis-based Belden Inc. Belden delivers a comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical network infrastructure needs of industrial, enterprise and broadcast markets. With innovative solutions targeted at reliable and secure transmission of rapidly growing amounts of data, audio and video needed for today's applications, Belden is at the center of the global transformation to a connected world.

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