Lawo enriches Premier League cricket production in India

Star TV, which has the rights to Premier League cricket in India for the next five years, has launched its own mobile unit and a new studio powered by Theirs.

Star TV will have the depoetive rights to Premier League Cricket for the next five years. In its first season as the “home of cricket,” Star is broadcasting live matches in India through its streaming platform, Hotstar (which also has worldwide internet rights).

In an attempt to make operations more efficient, Star TV has launched its own mobile unit and a new studio using technology from Theirs.

Lawo was responsible for facilitating the first cricket broadcast with 5.1 sound in 2015, using digital broadcast consoles Their mc²56 with HD cores. This participation was expanded to include 11 more mc²56 consoles and several video processors Their V__pro8 to provide an 8x8 video matrix and a 384x384 audio matrix, Dolby E encoding/decoding and cost-effective SDI keying/dekeying.

On the other hand, Star TV for broadcasting the cricket league has also launched a new studio. Studio audio focuses on an audio console Lawo mc²56 with 48 faders ordered towards the end of 2018 and installed in January 2019.

Star TV's initial installation included routing Lawo Compact Core with three DSP cards, one Ravenna card for the IP link to the remote interface That's Dallis, a card Dante for interfacing with external Dante devices and a MADI card with AES I/O for internal and external interconnections such as MADI to V__pro 8.

The studio's Dallis I/O frame supports 48 mic/line inputs, 48 ​​line outputs, and 16 AES inputs/outputs. The setup also uses the video processing toolkit V__for 8 from Lawo for audio de-embedding/embedding, and also a Dolby-E option for surround sound production work.