First Impression: Roland V-60HD Video Switcher
By Jim Bask
Over the last few years the world of video switchers has been favoring the trend of “less is more.” Small-format switchers are becoming more popular with many manufacturers. This is great for the church market, because most churches don’t have the need for huge video production switchers. When it comes to small-format switchers, Roland has been leading the charge and is continues with their new product the V-60HD.
The I/O of this “small” switcher is actually rather large, it supports six input channels via four SDI and two scaled HDMI inputs and a scaled RGB input. These can all be viewed on and standard TV via the built in multiviewer, on a dedicated HDMI output. The scaler on the HDMI and RGB inputs is an excellent feature because it allows the V-60HD to accept video from pretty much any source. This means that odd computer resolutions will play nicely with standard video resolutions without the need for an external converter. On the audio side, it has an 18-channel audio mixer with four TRS/XLR combo jacks with 48V phantom power, an RCA stereo pair, plus audio de-embed from the six video inputs. Audio processing capabilities include a high-pass filter, gate, compressor/limiter, three-band EQ, delay and the ability to select audio-follows-video….[continue reading]