XL Launches New HD PPU At The Brits

XL Video chose one of the highest profile live TV events of the year – the 2007 Brit Awards – to launch its new high definition PPU.
The newly commissioned PPU is based around a Grass Valley HD Kayak mixer and GV LDK 8000 HD Cameras, three of which XL supplied for the Brits. Ten further HD feeds from broadcasters CTV were also fed into the XL system which was used for the live stage IMAG mix, cut by Chris Hilson.
This was beamed onto a striking heart shaped high resolution LED screen centre stage and another large landscape shaped screen on stage left, upstage of one of the two performance areas. Both screens were also supplied by XL, built from Lighthouse R16 modules.
XL’s two project managers were Chris Saunders and Paul Wood. Saunders managed the control side of the show, while Paul Wood did the same for the screen elements. Both worked closely with technical production manager Mick Kluczynski and his team from MJK Productions.
“We had every confidence in the new PPU, and knew would do everything we required for the show, so had no qualms about debuting it on a live show of this stature,” commented Saunders.
(CL)