Hi,
I wanted to share with the forum our success with the Bolt Pro 2000.
We have several reality shows running at any one time and own 5 boxx wireless systems.
I took a big risk and purchased 4 Bolt Pro 2000's on the promise they would preform.
That they did! Running in a studio for 15 hour days for 5 days in a row.
They were built on an antenna array for 3 of the links and ran another in a long range scenario.
The studio environment had its own challenges we had about 5 inner walls of timber flats to get through.
Placing the antennas on the side of stage without any line of sight proved to work seamless.
The 4th link was run between a space of about 400 feet between a solid concrete wall with only a door opening allowing rf through.
Once again not a single drop out and perfect the whole time.
All 4 systems were running at the same time and we didn't ever have any issues getting the 4 working in the same space.
Now... one point that hopefully will be fixed in the future... we shoot long long days and the biggest issue for us is if you do a battery change on the camera you need to reset the power on the receiver also. This was the only real pain when working in this environment it required the camera assistants to pull down the receiver tower and individually power cycle the appropriate link. It would be great if you could connect via USB and make the link stay on the frequency its on and remove the need for the searching all together... an advanced user option perhaps?
One other thing we noted was sometimes if a power down occurred on say link 1 and the 3 other links were powered it would take some time to find its receiver.
Not a huge one either however the 'searching' screen appears to be in a 720p format meaning the vision switcher won't show 'searching' while waiting to lock up and not giving a director a confidence that its patched correctly and just waiting for its buddy.
We have since purchased some wireless power points for the iphone to control to help the camera assistants re power from the studio floor without the need to walk back to the receivers.
Teradek, you have created a boxx killer.... at this price and the quality of the product wow.. we are going to throw our external Boxx antenna's on the receivers and see how much further we can go with this however we haven't even had a need to yet! Amazing!
Nick
