The Corporació Valenciana de Mitjans de Comunicació (CVMC) has announced its commitment to Fujinon, Fujifilm’s line of optics, to improve production equipment. The acquisition of the new optics will provide a 4K ultra high definition (UHD-4K is its acronym in English) apart from television programming in Valencia.
The CVMC technical department has clarified that your purchase will be used for recording in various sets of À Punt programs. This is the Spanish free-to-air television channel that broadcasts for the Valencian Community and is part of À Punt Mèdia, a media group owned by the Valencian Generalitat of radio and television and regional websites. It will also be used for live broadcasts.
The new recording set for Valencian television
The technological update of the regional channel of Valencia consists of “a PEL for the realization of transmissions of up to four cameras in UHD-4K quality”, as reported by the CVMC itself.
The purchased equipment consists of one model UA14X4.5BERD optic, three UA18X7.6BERD optics and one UA23x7.6BERD optic. The corporation has detailed that each one has a complete Fujinon model SS-15DB servo control kit. The latter allows the image to be automatically focused even if its objects move.
In its statement, the CVMC has clarified that the optics that will offer UHD-4K quality “precisely comply with the technical specifications required in the Technical Prescription Document of the CNMY23/CVMC/24 public tender.”
But this is not the first time that Fujifilm has provided recording equipment to the Valencia DTT channel. The Autonomous Community already had eight Fujinon optics with an HD system for studies (HA23x7.6BERD-S10, HA18x7.6BERD-S10 and HA14x4.5BERD-S10); six Fujinon optics with 4K outdoor system (UA14x4.5BERD-S10, UA18x7.6BERD-S10 and UA23x7.6BERD-S10); and eight SS-15DB zoom and focus control kits.
The studios are not the first to be equipped with Fujifilm technology. In the last year, other regional television stations have announced the purchase of Fujinon optics, such as Telemadrid, Radio Television of the Principality of Asturias, EiTB and Aragón TV.
4K DTT channels
The Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) stopped supporting channels in standard quality (SD) on February 14, 2024, in pursuit of high quality (HD). This meant that several very old televisions that did not accept HD resolution became obsolete unless they were connected to a decoder that provided said definition.
Shortly before Spain suffered the DTT SD ‘blackout’, RTVE announced its collaboration with Dolby Atmos to implement the UHD-4K on their television channels officially, after testing this technology for years. The Spanish radio and television corporation is part of a non-profit association with 30 partners called UHD Spain, where Atresmedia and Mediapro also participate.
Now, almost a month later, the turn of the Valencian Community has arrived, which has already taken its first steps to offer 4K quality in its live broadcasts and in its programming on À Punt.