Mira Mobile Television has begun construction of a new 53 foot HD expando designated M7HD.   This is MIRA’s third HD truck constructed since 2005.    M7HD is scheduled for completion in August 2008.   Designed to serve MIRA’s core business segment, regional/national network sports and corporate productions, M7HD will have the most extensive technical core of any HD truck in MIRA’s fleet. “M7HD is a very different build for MIRA than our previous two HD trucks”, points out Frank Taylor, MIRA’s General Manager. “The majority of our fleet was purpose-built to fit a specific client contract.   M7HD is the first HD truck we have designed to fit the broad spectrum of client needs in the national marketplace.   We are very excited about the opportunity to serve this client base”.

At the heart of M7HD is a Pesa Cheetah 288x576 HD video router with a 128x128 AES and 128x128 analog audio router.   Audio will be handled by a Calrec Sigma audio desk with 104 mono channels and 104 stereo channels with both Dolby and SRS processing.   Video monitoring throughout the truck will be accomplished through Evertz VIP multi-image flat screen displays.

As with MIRA’s two previous HD trucks, M7HD will carry Sony 1500 1080p HD cameras.   The truck is wired for 16 cameras and will travel with 10 cameras on-board (7 hard, 3 handheld).   Fujinon will supply the HD lenses.   The Fujinon lens compliment will be one 101x8.9 and six 88x8.8 stabilized lenses.   Handhelds will all be 22x7.8 lenses along with two 13x4.5 wide angle lenses.

Media storage in M7HD will be provided primarily by EVS servers and RO’s.   A 6 channel and a 4 channel EVS HD LSM XT (2) will be on-board, as well as two EVS RO’s and a Spotbox or third RO.   All EVS systems will be networked and can be accessed by the EVS X-File archive station.

The centerpiece of the production area will be a Grass Valley Kalypso HD switcher with 90 inputs, 48 outputs, and 6 transform engines as well as a 122 monitor production wall spread across 37 LCD displays.