PBK's Studio 4 is an advanced digital broadcast studio, which is capable of providing fully stand-alone broadcasts of a TV channel.
This new channel started regular public broadcasts on September 20 and curently popular Russian TV programmes for all Baltic countries are broadcast from PBK Studio 4.
The premises of PBK new Studio 4
Project details include · numerous SONY DVCAM hard drive recorders
· SONY multiformat player J-30 SDI
· SONY MSW-M2000P IMX recorder
· numerous multiformat video monitors
· Panasonic AG-MX70E digital video/audio production mixer
· Leitch 32x32 serial video matrix
· Promax monitoring system
· Tandberg MPEG-2 DVB satellite receivers
· AVE Multiview Date-Time-Titler
· Saoundcraft and JBL sound monitoring systems
· Hamlet test equipment
· Communications Specialities SDI Fibre transport system to support communication with other PBK studios, located on other floors of the Latvian TV centre building
· specialized equipment from Evertz and other manufacturers
· production facility based on two Leitch nonlinear systems - 2D DPS Reality and VelocityQ, powered by Hyundai 901 workstations and 2TB Infortrend RAID systems
· all studio operations secured by powerful uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)