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TL Mobile Goes the Distance with AJA FS2

Nicholas Appleton is the VP of Operations/Engineer for TL Mobile Television, based in Springfield, MO.

In his own words, he describes how FS2 has become an invaluable part of his workflow.

“TL Mobile Television is a Springfield, MO-based mobile truck operator working with a broad range of

clientele including ESPN and Fox. Our 53-foot HD Digital Expando is almost always on the road covering

sporting events in the mid-and southwest.

As VP of Operations/Engineer for TL Mobile, it’s often my job to make sure that everything is running as

smoothly as possible. We provide all of the equipment that a crew would need to broadcast a sporting

or entertainment event along with two or three on-site engineers. We’ve been using AJA products at TL

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We were recently introduced to the AJA FS2 dual channel universal frame synchronizer/format converter

by our local distributor. We already have several AJA FS1s on our truck, and with the FS2, we’re getting

the added benefit of dual channel features in a 1RU design. Without AJA converters we wouldn’t have

the flexibility to adjust to the constant changing demands of a live production environment.

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products.”

One of our favorite things about the FS2 is that we can IP into them so they’re all listed in our truck

computer and we don’t have to go to each device individually to change settings. It’s really convenient

to just be able to log in and see all of our devices right there—this holds true for our FS2s and our

FS1 units as well. We added the FS2s a few months ago and they’ve been working hard on the truck

primarily on projects for ESPN sports.

FS2 also provides a lot of power in one box—as an example, everything from cameras to switchers to

tape machines to the graphics package all needs to work together seamlessly for live broadcast. In a

live production environment it is hard to mix different flavors of HD, so FS2 is ideal for a simple cross-

conversion solution when your final output needs to be another signal. Often our network clients want

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the conversion and send it to the uplink, or vice versa, to cross convert to another flavor of HD.

We also love that the AJA FS2 packs so much functionality into a single rack unit. Dual channel 10-bit up,

down and cross convert between so many different SD and HD formats along with analog to digital and

digital to analog audio/video conversion. All of that at a price point that’s lower than the competition

with the reliability and support that goes hand in hand with all of AJA’s products.

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digital and digital to analog back when our switcher was digital but other components in the truck were

analog. Some of those original components even still live on the truck today. We continue to use AJA

gear today—they helped us make the full transition over to HD and we anticipate that they’ll continue to

meet our future needs with products that provide best-in-class support for the latest broadcast formats. “

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