Mobile Image Co
TV Production Facilities

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Digital Outside Broadcast Van
for live-switched multicam TV production

  

20 years in 2006 !

LATEST UPGRADES (July 2006):

  • Six widescreen cameras in stock
  • 4 big box lenses (2 44x and 2 55x) added to our stock
  • Improved comms
  • Better commentator gear.
  • Logostore for channel bugs
  • Downstream mixer for screen-feeds

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Who we are


Our 20 years in  business


Examples of projects we have worked on


How (and why) to use an OB Van in your production


OB Van Detailed Technical specs


How to organise a “live switched” OB TV production

 


We hire out equipment

 


Terms and Conditions

 


Useful links

 


Funny stuff

 


Contact us

 

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WHO WE ARE

 

WELCOME

Mobile Image is a supplier of subcontracted Outside Broadcast Van facilities and technical expertise, to producers in the Broadcast, Pay TV, and Events industries.

 

AUSTRALIAN OWNED AND OPERATED

Privately owned Aussie small business, established in 1986. All profits stay in Australia, and help create jobs for our industry.

 

VALUE FOR MONEY

Our overheads are fairly low as we work from home and own and support all the gear we supply, so we can offer very efficient pricing on most jobs.

 

EXPERTISE

Owner Peter Collis has 30 years’ working experience in television technology and operations. This combination of expertise and well-organised technology provides a useful and hard-to-find supplement to today’s TV industry, where people with genuine technical knowledge and skills are rapidly becoming extinct.

 

 

OUR CLIENTS:

Our clients are people who need to supplement their own operations with what we have to offer.

 

They include:

  • production companies,
  • independent producers,
  • events companies,
  • AV suppliers,
  • pay and free-to-air channels,
  • big screen operators,
  • and other existing outside broadcast facility providers.

 

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MISSION STATEMENT:

To provide excellence in subcontracted mid-sized OB facilities, along with in-depth technical and operational expertise, to our industry clients, in support of their production activities, whilst offering excellent value for money.


WHAT WE DO

 

OB VAN

Our main service to the industry is our mid-sized digital outside broadcast van, delivering a complete basic equipment package.

 

This well equipped and well integrated package is supplied on a per-day basis with OB tech manager.

 

It offers a comfortable workspace, and can travel to jobs in locations near and far, usually carrying its own complete kit.

 

RACKMOUNTED OB

We also have a small rack-mounted OB system for jobs where using truck is not practical.

 

EXTRA GEAR

We have a large additional stock of video, audio and comms equipment for hire usage in live TV production.

 

 

OB VAN SPECIFICATIONS:

  • 10.4 tonne diesel rigid pantech van
  • Standard Definition 625/50
  • Serial Digital video, analogue audio.
  • Broadcast-standard systems
  • 3 to 6 Sony D35WSP triaxial camera chains
  • Lenses: from “wideys” to 55’s.
  • Up to 9 digital VTRs
  • Comms & IFBs
  • Commentary kits
  • Lots of other useful stuff !

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PURPOSE:
Ideal for small to medium productions, where quality and reliability matter

TYPES OF USAGE:

  • Complete coverage: cameras, audio commentary, graphics, replays.
  • Downstream coverage: versioning a host broadcaster’s coverage with extra cameras, interviews and fronting.
  • Taped O.B. multicam recordings, for later editing or DVD production
  • Image magnification and supplying content for  outdoor or arena screens
  • Location coverage for Satellite uplinking
  • On-site hostings for live-to-air shows: anchoring a show from a remote location.

 

 

You can book us, either as a dry hire of the OB Van and tech manager and you supply the crew (best value for money), or with a freelance broadcast crew included.

 

Mobile Image Co Australia Pty Ltd

1 Westleigh St Neutral Bay 2089 Sydney Australia

Phone: 61 2 9953 3833       Mobile: 61 408 446 603        email:  mail @mobileimage.com.au

Digital Outside Broadcast Van