BIGGEST ORDER OF THE YEAR COMES FROM DOORDARSHAN (December 2007)

406 was the number of interface boards that Doordarshan Kendra purchased in September, making this not only the first ever sale to India's national broadcaster but also Crystal Vision's largest order of 2007.

Doordarshan Kendra is one of largest broadcasting organisations in the world, transmitting 46 channels terrestrially to more than 90% of the Indian population and an international channel via satellite to 146 countries across the world.

As part of its ongoing upgrade to digital, the broadcaster needed a large number of conversion, distribution and embedding products for 22 of its studio complexes located throughout India, and chose Crystal Vision as its interface supplier for the first time.

Most of the boards purchased are being used to provide conversion between analogue and digital sources, and included 116 of the new 12 bit ADDEC-210 and ADDEC-310 analogue to digital converters and 118 of the ALLDAC and ENC116 digital to analogue encoders.

Distribution was the other main requirement, with 64 VDA110M to distribute analogue video and 78 DDA108 to distribute SDI sources.

Doordarshan Kendra is increasingly using embedded audio in its studios, and also purchased ten TANDEM-110 for embedding and de-embedding analogue audio, as well as 20 of the multi-functional Demon 2 to both de-embed analogue audio and convert SDI to 12 bit broadcast quality PAL for transmission.

The boards are being housed in 62 of the Indigo 2 2U frames.

The equipment is being supplied by the Crystal Vision distributor, AGIV (India) PVT Ltd., who has played an important part in building up the relationship between Doordarshan and Crystal Vision over a number of years.

AGIV explained that Doordarshan Kendra "chose a product expecting a brilliant performance at a competitive price", while Crystal Vision's Managing Director, Philip Scofield, added "We are proud to be selected as the main interface supplier for such a strategically important project that will see Crystal Vision equipment installed into many parts of India."