Thomson Grass Valley Kayak HD Switcher Shows Double-digit Sales Growth Year-on-Year
"Thomson understands its customers' need for high-end features in an affordable production switcher and that's exactly what they're getting with the Thomson Grass Valley Kayak HD switcher family," said Jeff Rosica, Senior Vice President of Thomson's Broadcast & Professional Solutions business unit. "Thomson Grass Valley has always been a leader in production switchers and continues to lead as we meet the demands of the industry's evolving production needs."
Thomson Grass Valley production switchers have an estimated global installed base market share of 65 percent of all standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) switchers sold. This includes an 88 percent market share within the North American high-end, 40-foot or longer mobile market, as reported by Sports Video Group in its "Mobile Truck Marketplace Research Report 2007."
Among the latest customers:
Kayak HD is installed in over 90 U.S. call-letter stations to date, including Belo Corp. flagship station WFAA-TV/DT, the highly rated ABC affiliate serving the Dallas/Fort Worth market, which broadcasts 4 and a half hours of local news and programming in high definition each weekday using a Thomson Grass Valley Kayak HD 3 M/E production switcher.
Artear, a major media company with headquarters in Buenos Aires, has purchased five Thomson Grass Valley Kayak HD250 and one Kayak HD100 high-definition video production switchers as part of a company-wide migration to native 1080i format HDTV production and transmission.
Chapman University, in Orange, Calif., is using a Kayak HD switcher in its new $42 million production facility, called the Marion Knott Studios. Housed in the control room of the school's new HDTV production studio, the Kayak HD is used for the production of a student newscast and for video production training classes.
NASA's Kennedy Space Center is using Kayak HD for the production and archiving of launches of the Space Shuttle from Florida.
The New England School of Communications, located on the campus of Husson College in Bangor, Maine, is using two Kayak HD switchers: one in their production truck and the other in its production studio.
Mobile production truck operator The Mobile Television Group has outfitted part of their 23 mobile unit fleet with Kayak HD systems (the rest have Kalypso™ Video Production Center switchers), many of which are being used to telecast professional and college sports.
As well, The ASSEMBLE NATIONALE, QUEBEC is using Kayak HD to produce their legislative sessions.
Kayak HD provides a cost-effective way for organizations to migrate from analog to digital production and from standard-definition (SD) to high-definition (HD) without sacrificing image quality and with seamless multi-camera system functionality.
About the Kayak HD
The Thomson Grass Valley Kayak HD digital video production switcher is a full family of HD/SD multi-format production switchers from 1 M/E to 4.5 M/Es. The Kayak HD, available in a compact 4 RU frame and an 8 RU frame, is switchable between HD (1080i, 720p, and several 1080pSF formats) and SD (525-line and 625-line) formats. The switcher offers 4 keyers per mix/effects, up to 96 mappable SDI inputs, 48 mappable SDI outputs and up to 16 internal video source scalars for up, down and cross conversion for true multi-format production.
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