ARX USB DIs at Australian Open Tennis Grand Slam

Darren McKenzie, from the Melbourne, Australia-based production company The Loft Productions, used ARX's USB - DI USB digital-to-analog transformer-isolated interfaces at the recent Australian Open Tennis Grand Slam at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena.

McKenzie described the USB DIs as being ideal for the "on-air play out" from the commentators' computers and audio feed located in the pit commentary position below court level. The transformer-isolated outputs ensured noise-free performance when connected to the complex broadcast audio system used at the Open.

The commentary was streamed via the USB DIs to the Tennis Radio Network and then up-streamed globally though the internet to an estimated on line audience of around two million tennis fans.