Sony Anycast Station

摘要

The Sony AWS-G500 Anycast Station is a self-contained, 17-pound, 6-channel location-video switcher with integrated audio mixing and TCP/IP digital video streaming, all packaged in an enclosure about the size of a portable electric typewriter. At just under $20,000, it straddles the line between prosumer and professional location-video production in terms of both cost and functionality—a position that is, perhaps, difficult to characterize as enviable. Despite being functionally flawless, the Anycast suffers from an attempt to do too many different things without focusing on doing any one of them particularly well. There may, however, be some applications that could benefit from the extreme integration the Anycast offers.