Ikegami Electronics (Europe) will promote the latest additions to its range of broadcast-quality television production equipment at Broadcast Innovation Day (BID 2025). Supported by over 40 exhibitors, the event will be held at the headquarters of Broadcast Solutions GmbH in Bingen am Rhein from 10:00 to 18:00 on Thursday May 8th.
“BID is a well established event which has proved especially attractive for studio and mobile production service providers,” comments Gisbert Hochguertel, Ikegami Europe Product Specialist. “It offers a day packed with cutting-edge tech, inspiring talks and hands-on demos. We will showcase our new IPX-100 IP base station in an ST 2110 IP environment with our flagship UHK-X700 system camera.”
Ikegami’s IPX-100 is a compact IP extension unit for use with UNICAM-series cameras. Just 2U high by half 19 inch rack width, it allows broadcast content creators to adopt SMPTE ST 2110 IP remote operation while supporting the familiar workflow of baseband live production. Each UNICAM camera can feed into an IPX-100 via up to 3.5 km of conventional SMPTE-hybrid fibre cable. The camera head is powered directly from the IPX-100. An HD-SDI video monitoring output allows connection of a field monitor to the IPX-100, facilitating initial setup. A web browser (XE Web View) is available for remote setup and monitoring of the IPX-100.
Designed for pedestal-mounted, tripod mounted or shoulder operation, the UHK-X700 camera has three ⅔ inch CMOS UHD sensors with a global shutter to minimise artifacts when shooting LED screens or scenes illuminated with flash or strobe lighting. Weighing only 5 kg, the camera comes with a B4 lens mount and has an optical sensitivity of F11 at 4K-UHD/50p. Full HDR/SDR support is included plus the ability to choose between BT.2020 and BT.709 chroma spaces. HFR shooting at up to 2x speed in UHD or up to 8x in HD via the BSX-100 base station is possible as an option. Combining the BSX-100 base station or CCU-X100 camera control unit with the UHK-X700 also offers the ability to output UHD and HD simultaneously. IP I/O is available as an option via the BSX-100 or CCU-X100.
