YSTV Equipment

This page mostly documents commercial equipment owned by the station over the years. For things that we have built, try the YSTV Technicals page. There is an alphabetical list of both under Category:Equipment. The equipment used outside the station for roving filming is described more on the OB Kit page.

Cameras

• JVC KY-1900
• Panasonic MS4
• Panasonic F10
• Panasonic MS5
• Panasonic DV
• Sony DV
• Canon DV

Vision Mixers

• Polar vision mixer
• Cox T8
• Magic DaVE
• Panasonic MX50

Video Tape Players

• Sony Umatic edit suite
• Tank Umatic
• JVC SVHS edit suite
• JVC SVHS/DV combined VCR

Other Vision Equipment

• Cotron black and white monitors
• Commodore Amiga
• Maurice P152 touch-screen control head, and P164 digital frame-store back-end.
• P169 8x4 mux companion to Maurice
• Dual framestore - two channel digital framestore (with very limited mix/DVE functionality)
• Sony Trinitrons ...Who can forget the weight of those 2 heavy colour, flat-screen monitors when lugging them about in the early '90s??!

Test Equipment

• Grundig Oscilloscope