Prince Edward Island Legislature, November 17, 2008 back to recent news    

Mississauga, Ontario - November 17, 2008 - Applied Electronics recently completed the installation of a television broadcast system in the P.E.I. Provincial Legislature. The system operates similarly to the other legislatures in Canada: when a member is recognized by the Speaker of the House, the TV operator touches an icon of the member’s desk on a touch panel. The computer immediately commands the appropriate camera to tilt-pan-zoom and focus to a pre-stored shot of the member and commands the video production switcher to take the members shot to air. It also pulls up the members name and riding from a character generator. The operator may then, at his/her discretion, downstream key the members name over the video. The system is prepared to also select microphones in the future, but at present the mics are selected by an operator who sits in the chamber.

This is a small three-camera system using Panasonic AW-E750P, 2/3 inch cameras with Canon lenses mounted on Crestron robotic heads. The control system uses the AV-2 Creston controller with custom software by one of our own certified Crestron programmers. The video production switcher is a Thomson Grass Valley Indigo and the multi-screen preview monitor is a Sharp 46” LCD with an Avitech media command centre. This control centre is one of the most ergonomically efficient that Applied Electronics has built.

Irwin Campbell, Manager of Multimedia Services for P.E.I., reports that the system went to air with no glitches when the house opened on November 12th, 2008.

For more information, please contact:
Gord Ballantyne, Audio Visual / Broadcast Systems - Toronto
Applied Electronics Limited
(905) 625-4321