Following the launch of the company late last year, punQtum B.V. has unveiled its first product, the Q110 Beltpack, which is part of a larger networked intercom system that offers up to 32 partylines via standard IP networks and infrastructures. The Q110 provides all the features you need to help crews communicate better.
In part-1 of this three-part series we discussed the benefits of Remote Production and some of the advantages it provides over traditional outside broadcasts. In this part, we look at the core infrastructure and uncover the technology behind this revolution.
Based in Barcelona, Spain, the Parliament of Catalonia serves as the home of Catalonia’s legislative body, occupying a historic, 300-year-old palace in Barcelona’s Ciutadella Park. Since 2002, the Parliament produces its own institutional television signal and makes it available, free of charge, to media outlets.
When Craig Kief, a Los Angeles-based director of photography, is shooting a TV show or commercials, he always likes to stay in close communication with his crew. He uses Riedel Communication’s Bolero wireless intercom to keep all of his camera operators, focus pullers, and department heads in close communication so everyone can focus on the same goals in the middle of a busy and noisy set.
Recent international events have overtaken normality causing us to take an even closer look at how we make television. Physical isolation is greatly accelerating our interest in Remote Production, REMI and At-Home working, and this is more important now than it ever has been.
Paris La Défense Arena, a domed stadium, west of Paris itself, was looking to deploy a signal routing and communications backbone for crews and others working within its 40,000-seat arena when it chose Riedel Communications’ MediorNet real-time media network, Artist digital matrix intercom, and Bolero wireless intercom platforms.
