Sony Location Porter Gets Multichannel Upgrade

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The Sony Location Porter, which allowed reporters and police officers to function as their own cameramen by allowing filmed data to be transmitted remotely via 3G wireless, is getting a bit of an upgrade with some new multichannel functionality.

That sounds a bit techno-gibberish, so I’ll help boil it down a bit. Basically, before, the Location Porter sent back to one central transmitter, and worked essentially on a one-on-one basis. For every Porter, you needed a central transmitter. Not bad, if you only had the one, but could get prohibitive rapidly in multi-user environments.

So the upgraded versions, like the RVT-MR200 line of Location Porters, can allow for as many as twelve Porters to work with just one central transmitter. Thus, you could pretty much outfit an entire newsroom (a small local one, maybe) with one transmitter and a dozen Porters.

The problem, as is so often the case, is one of price. A single RVT-MR200, for example, can cost around $20,000.