O'Doherty's Audio & Visual of Dublin, Ireland, recently installed an Echolab Nova 1416 switcher in its 8-meter OB truck.
O'Doherty's provides audio information, announcements, graphics, camera coverage and replays to monitors and giant screens at 16 racetracks across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
"The Nova 1416 is a hugely flexible system for its size," said Paul Johnston, unit director for O'Doherty's. "It's perfect for our OB truck's hectic schedule. We are always on the road, and we need absolute reliability as well as full functionality."
The company was looking to upgrade its digital production and found Echolab to provide a switcher that, after bouncing around day after day on bad roads, was built for endurance.
Features of the compact Nova 1416 include a frame buffer that allows O'Doherty's to store the individual racetrack logos, 16 routable auxiliary outputs that provide distinct SDI camera feeds, and flexible upstream/downstream keyers.
