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Wohler will be showcasing a range of products that represent state-of-the-art processing and monitoring in convenient and compact designs. These solutions include intuitive touch-screen systems that simplify video monitoring and routing while providing key functional enhancements, such as integrated multichannel communications, as well as innovative 16-channel DSP-based monitoring products that may be customized with specific audio-processing functionality suited to the unique needs of a broadcaster, whether delivering programming over the air, cable, satellite, or IP network.
New Wohler Products at IBC2008:
RM Series High-Definition Monitors
Packed with functionality but priced affordably, Wohler's new RM series of high-definition (HD) monitor packs are ideal for video and audio confidence monitoring in mobile trucks, news and transmission control rooms, and duplication and post-production facilities. Each screen can display eight channels of VU over PPM audio level meters, UMD, safe areas, frame marks, cropping, switchable aspect ratios, as well as built-in color bars. The RM HD units also provide an active loop-through output for each SDI input. Additionally, all settings are accessible from front panel controls and the RM's intuitive on-screen menu. As a fully inclusive solution, each model is designed for high-resolution HD imaging and features NTSC and PAL autosensing built into the units, which accept two composite video inputs per screen on the same BNC used for HD/SD-SDI.
Additional features include a versatile chassis in which the LCDs may be rotated ±55° in the vertical plane to provide optimum viewing angles. Red/green/yellow tally, as well as the in-screen UMD, can be interfaced to most tally systems.
Touch-Comm Communication Station
Also new at IBC2008 is the Touch-Comm communication station, a touch-screen solution that combines 12-source monitoring and routing capability with support for multichannel intercommunication among Touch-Comm users, regardless of their geographic location. The latest addition to Wohler's Touch-itTM line of touch-screen video monitoring solutions, the Touch-Comm unit consists of two touch-screen control panels. The left touch panel displays up to 12 thumbnail video images. A simple touch to a thumbnail will route that source to an external monitor for enhanced viewing. The right touch-screen is the communication control panel of an IP-based matrix intercom system that facilitates non-blocking, multichannel intercommunication. Touch-Comm is dynamically configurable for any mixture of point-to-point calls, group conferences, and party lines, providing simple operation with minimal distraction in a wide range of surveillance, public service, video production, and emergency command environments.