Ross Video Teams with Mediatec Asia Pacific, Welcoming a New openTruck Partner in Australia

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 [Iroquois, Ontario, Canada] – Ross Video teams up with Mediatec Asia Pacific from Melbourne, Australia – as the newest Ross openTruck partner. openTruck provides a standardized yet customizable blueprint for a new generation of cost-effective remote production vehicles, and offers partnerships with equipment manufacturers, system integrators, truck builders, mobile producers and freelance operators.

Mediatec provisions video and broadcast services for Harness Racing Victoria with approximately 470 events per year. “Our team at Mediatec knew we needed to find a solution that delivered HD quality broadcasts of the 470 events annually,” stated Owen Davison, one of the principals at Mediatec Asia Pacific. “We decided that the best way to broadcast all the racing events, while still maintaining flexibility in how to use the broadcast equipment, was by building two large outdoor broadcasting (OB) trucks with a new design that would be significantly more cost-effective.”

Vehicles built using the openTruck design guarantee consistent, high quality media content for sports or any other type of live event. They ensure a predictable experience, and outstanding results.

Given that these two new OB trucks equipped with Ross Carbonite eXtreme switchers, XPression motion graphics, openGear signal processing, and DashBoard system control were a resounding success for Mediatec, they have now began building another two that are more agile, following the openTruck guidelines. This will permit Mediatec Asia Pacific to cover more events around Australia. According to Owen, “At the end of the day, broadcasters need content, and if we can deliver it at a lower cost, then they can make more great quality content.” “The Ross openTruck design enhances the value proposition of our OB trucks and increases the ability to satisfy customers”.

About Ross Video

Passionate about live production, Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers dependable technology and services that power exceptional live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video’s goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, legislative assemblies, entertainment shows and rock concerts, and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Relentlessly innovating, Ross Video delivers the world’s widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, terminal equipment and more.

Ross products and services are designed to offer the best system integration and unmatched customer choice by both working together seamlessly and integrating tightly with third-party solutions.

Ross Video has offices around the world, and provides outstanding, free-for-life telephone support staffed by technical experts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—even for products bought on eBay. Ross employees are authorized to rent helicopters when necessary.

Ross Video: The Production Technology Experts.

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Ross Video Media Contact – Asia Pacific:

Vivian Yu
Marketing & Operations Manager, Asia Pacific
Tel: +65 9827 3531
Fax: +1 613-652-4425
Email: vyu@rossvideo.com
Twitter: @ross_video
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Ross Video Media Contact:

Sara Bell
Media Relations Coordinator
Tel: +1 613-652-3020
Fax: +1 613-652-4425
Email: sbell@rossvideo.com
Twitter: @ross_video
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