Game Creek Video’s Hollywood

Founded in 1993, Game Creek Video serves the world’s largest television networks and production companies with state-of-the-art mobile television production units. The company operates a fleet of 51 OB trucks and counting, delivering flawless coverage for events such as the NFL Super Bowl, MLB World Series, NASCAR, U.S. Open Golf, and FIS World Ski Championships.

Launched in the fall of last year, Hollywood is a state-of-the-art, fully IP-based OB truck built on the SMPTE ST 2110 transport protocol, Lawo HOME, VSM, and NMOS. Since hitting the road, Hollywood has been covering countless hours of professional basketball and baseball in the Los Angeles area.

Hollywood is the logical sequel to Bravo, Game Creek Video’s first IP-based mobile unit, released in 2019. After 13 highly successful all-IP OB trucks based on the Bravo platform, Hollywood marks the first in a new breed of trucks built on a next-generation, virtualized approach — fully embracing Lawo’s unified, open platform and the hardware/software synergies it provides.

At the center of this shift is Lawo HOME Apps: a container-based, on-network processing approach that lets Game Creek Video run app-based multiviewers and processing functions on commercial, off-the-shelf servers instead of dedicated hardware blades. The result is a truck with a smaller footprint, lower power draw, and processing headroom that scales with future server generations rather than fixed hardware.

For SDI-to-IP conversion, Hollywood relies on Lawo .edge, a hyper-density gateway and processing platform for both video and audio. Beyond signal conversion, .edge handles multiviewer proxy generation, audio shuffling, and clean and quiet switching — all directly at the network edge, reducing the need for intermediary processing and cutting latency. On the audio side, Lawo Power Core units serve as dedicated gateways for analog, AES, MADI, and Dante signals, rounding out a fully IP-based audio infrastructure.

The entire truck is orchestrated through Lawo VSM, the infrastructure control system that has long served as Game Creek Video’s overarching user interface — chiefly operated via hardware button panels, with touchscreen and tablet control also in play.