Keeping an Eye on Things: Multiviewers evolve with adoption of IP, demands for more remote work

摘要

The screen has been and always will be both the symbol of television and the means of watching it, however on both the viewing and production sides, displaying TV pictures has changed considerably in the last 20 years, when CRTs reigned supreme. While the consumer market has diversified into smaller screens on mobile devices, broadcast operations have evolved rapidly thanks to the multiviewer.This technology has made a discernable difference to studio galleries, OB trucks and playout centers, not only in terms of layout-with only a few screens replacing banks of older style monitors-but also in how operations are carried out. More sources can be displayed in a gallery or OB vehicle and more outputs can be monitored in master control rooms (MCRs) by only a few operators.As John Mailhot, chief technology officer for networking products at Imagine Communication notes, multiviewers are now "the design standard" for facilities, with the previously ubiquitous walls of discreet monitors nowhere to be seen.