| Roger Davies,
project manager of Professional and Broadcast Digital Systems |
“Digi Scope DS601AX and Monitor
Scope MS601AX were the only suitable units for the job. Embedded
audio was vital to us – both for QC on ingest and on our outgoing
lines to the BT Tower – and Hamlet was the only company that
included it.
In the ingest area, we put the Digi Scope in the rack and gave the
operator a monitor on the desk,” he added. “It does
not matter what you feed it, the results are there for you where
you need them.” |
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| Darren
Woolfson of Molinare. |
“Each of the nine new rooms
contains an Avid Adrenalin. The design of the rooms is quite minimal,
with no large desk and traditional broadcast clutter. There is a
single, flat-screen broadcast quality monitor, and that seemed the
perfect place to put waveform and audio monitoring.
The Hamlet Adept is a very cost-effective
solution, especially as it includes on-screen PPMs for audio. We
have specified SDI in and out, and it provides all the quality checks
we need without taking up much desk space. If we need a clean picture
it is simple to switch off the burn-in.” |
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| Graham
Deaves, technical director of Mersey Television |
“The two new portable shoot
kits are needed immediately to service a new commission from E4
to produce 12 one hour episodes of a spin-off from our popular series
Hollyoaks. There is no doubt that we will be moving to HD in the
near future, so as the project required new investment we made a
decision to go for HD rather than SD equipment.
We will shoot the series in HD, although
the series will be transmitted in SD this autumn. The characteristic
style of Hollyoaks is to shoot on practical sets, either on our
own campus or on location, so we need highly reliable portable equipment.
The Hamlet HD waveform monitors provide an important quality check
as we are shooting.” |
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| Derek Wilkinson,
SISLink’s satellite facilities manager |
| “SISLink is building more streamlined
trucks and needs its vital test & measurement devices to fit.
The Hamlet Adept’s OSD monitoring means we don’t need
a separate cathode-ray tube and it is a cost-effective and space-efficient
means of ensuring we continue to deliver our clients’ signals
reliably.” |
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| David Hargreaves
of SSVC |
| “We worked with Hamlet to get
it to do exactly what we needed, and now the LCD Scope provides the
functionality we need for the new service.” |
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| Dan Stark
of systems integrator Stark Raving Solutions |
| “Our customers demand the systems
to deliver reliably high quality content. They appreciate the flexibility
of a single unit covering NTSC, S-Video, component analogue, DV, SDI
and HD, along with the ease of use and ownership that Hamlet products
have proven for us and our customers.” |
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| Tom Edwards
of Broadcast Technical Services Inc. (BTSI) |
| “The Hamlet product line provides
us with a good selection of products meeting our top three needs:
reliability, ease of operation and form factor. As installers and
designers we like the small amount of space and power the Hamlet products
use; client operations and engineering staff praise Hamlet for straightforward
setup, operational accuracy and feature set. And the products work
out of the box – we have had no Hamlet failures in our installations.” |
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| Peter Hansen
of Danmon |
| “Hamlet’s superior product
line perfectly matches the current needs in broadcasting and addresses
the future of HD. The sale to TV2 is an excellent example: the customer
found the DigiScope to be the right choice accurate, flexible and
at an attractive price.” |
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| Peter Rolston,
AV Group managing director |
| “We are delighted to be working
with Hamlet, and using SMPTE to unveil this exciting range. Hamlet
has an excellent reputation for identifying just the right product
for the market – the Protean Axiom, for example, is a compact
and convenient HD signal generator, but it still combines all the
test patterns the practical engineer requires along with animated
alphanumerics for signal identification. I know that this range is
spot-on right for the Australian market.” |
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| Eero Saarinen,
managing director of Mediatrade |
| “The Flexiscope puts powerful
test and measurement functionality literally into the palm of the
engineer’s hand. Rigging outside broadcast applications means
a lot of circuit testing and tracing. Having a single tool that has
confidence monitoring as well as precision digital audio and video
metering, that you can carry around with you at all times, is a huge
benefit.” |
