VSC Design Installs Harris Equipment at Abbey Road Studios' New HD Video Duplication Facility

Harris Corporation have announced that VSC Design, a leading UK-based systems integrator, has completed the installation of a turnkey project for the new HD video duplication and encoding facility at the world-renowned Abbey Road Studios in London using Harris infrastructure and test and measurement products.
The contract includes an SD/HD-compliant Leitch Integrator Gold router, a vast range of Leitch 6800+ series modular products and two Videotek TVM-950 test and measurement instruments.
"We chose VSC Design to design, build and install the equipment layout and cabling because of their proven track record in the market compounded by the excellent support we have always received from the company," said Tom Williams, Video Services Manager, Abbey Road Studios. "Our choice of products was based on the fact that the Harris equipment is all SD/HD-compliant and able to seamlessly integrate into our existing infrastructure."
Martyn Hales, Managing Director at VSC Design, said, "We worked very closely with Harris to select products that integrated the new system into the existing infrastructure at Abbey Road. This project was commissioned, designed and installed within eight weeks and was planned to allow Abbey Road Studios a seamless transition to the new facility with minimal impact to their ongoing business."
"We are delighted to have secured an order from such a prestigious and well-respected business as Abbey Road Studios and are pleased to collaborate with VSC Design on this project," said Dave Dougall, VP of Sales, Europe, Africa and Middle East, Harris Broadcast Communications Division.
With full digital signal processing technology, the Videotek TVM-950 provides accurate, stable display of single or multiple Waveform, Vector, Gamut, Audio, Picture, Timing and Data Analyser functions in quadrant or full-screen views for HD/SD-SDI. The TVM-950 is capable of monitoring and displaying up to four input sources simultaneously.
The 6800+ is a high-quality processing platform that provides all core processing and distribution functions in analog, SD, HD, and optical formats. Products are designed with a "core function per module" concept that ensures straightforward system designs with lower costs and higher performance.
The Integrator Gold wideband digital multi-rate router has the capability of routing signals from 3 Mb/s to 1.5 Gb/s and offers a clear growth path from lower bit rate AES, SDI and ASI to high-bandwidth, high-definition format signals.
At the heart of the UK music industry for 75 years, Abbey Road Studios, is one of the the most technically advanced recording and mixing, film scoring, post-production audio and video complexes in the world.
Abbey Road Interactive, the interactive design and digital video studio launched in February 1996, is at the forefront of DVD, Enhanced CD and website development for the entertainment industry.
Abbey Road, www.abbeyroad.com.