O’Doherty’s Productions Wins Bet With Echolab Nova Production Switcher

Echolab
Corporation announced that O’Doherty’s Audio Video Productions of Dublin,
Ireland, is deploying the company’s Nova 1416 switcher in its 26-foot broadcast
truck, which travels almost 2,500 miles a month to provide A/V services to 16
racetracks spread across
Ireland
and

Northern Ireland.
O’Doherty’s is the premier provider of audio information, announcements,
graphics, camera coverage, and replays to monitors and giant screens at
racetracks in

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. The Nova 1416 offers a robust system with high-end
features, including a frame buffer that allows O’Doherty’s to store the
individual racetrack logos, 16 routable AUX outputs that provide distinct SDI
camera feeds, and flexible upstream and downstream keyers. Since space is at a
premium, the compact 5-RU size of the Echolab Nova 1416 switcher is a plus, as
is its cool, power-efficient operation. As with all Echolab switchers, at the
heart of the Nova is Echolab’s innovative system-on-chip architecture, making
the Nova not only easy to upgrade, but guaranteeing it will be in the race for
many years to come.

“Echolab
designed the Nova with complex, demanding, and space-limited production
operations exactly like O’Doherty’s in mind,” said Nigel Spratling,
president of Echolab. “With its sleek Identity 4 panel, the Nova 1416 is
perfect for an action-packed
OB truck, meeting
demands for reliability, ease of use, and maximum creative control.”