For Pilot Season, Los Angeles Video Equipment Rental Company Adds Sony XD-CAM Decks for Rent To Meet Growing Demand

Westside Media Group, the premier video equipment rental company serving Los Angeles, West LA, Santa Monica, Burbank and the San Fernando Valley, has added more new Sony XDCam Decks to meet rising demand for tapeless deck rentals, just in time for Pilot Season.

The weather has not been kind to the video editing world over the last two years. Japan's 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami, and the typhoons in South East Asia in 2012 have resulted in shortages of both tape and tapeless deck media.

At the same time, Sony's XDCam tapeless decks have become more popular than ever. Tapeless decks allow producers to record directly to disk, and then send that same disk to their editing staff for post-production. That makes these XDCam deck rentals extremely popular with reality show producers where deadlines are short.

The 2012 Pilot Season is putting pressure on producers and editors everywhere to get their shows through post-production as fast as possible.

According to Lewis Lipstone, president of Westside Media Group, "The factories in Thailand that make the parts for Sony XDCam decks are still trying to recover from their recent typhoon. The streets and factories there were flooded, and that has resulted in a huge shortage of both XDCam Decks and Media."

Despite the simultaneous high demand and shortage, Lipstone is announcing today the acquisition of four new Sony PDW-F1600 XDCam Players.

"We have invested over $100,000 on these new machines, and they are available for immediate rental," says Lipstone. Some of them have already been reserved for their first rentals.

The new acquisition adds to the 9 other XDCam Decks in WMG's inventory. Despite the recent addition, Lipstone still estimates that his XDCam Decks for rent will be in constant demand and reserved weeks in advance.

"All our video equipment for rent can be reserved directly on our website on the Video Equipment Rental Reservation Request page," says Lipstone.

While the company is based in the heart of the media industry in Los Angeles, WMG can ship video equipment overnight to anywhere in the USA. Lipstone says that "Whether you are in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, or Atlanta, we can get you your video equipment rental in one day. And if you're anywhere in the LA Area, we'll drive your XDCam deck to your door, and even help you set it up."

WMG has video stock for sale for all of the machines it rents and video services that it provides, including XDCam media.

WMG also has edit suites for rent, provides video duplication and conversion services, and maintains an equipment room filled with any video editing or conversion machine imaginable, including Sony SR decks, Panasonic D5 Decks, and Teranex machines.

Westside Media Group is the leading video equipment rental company for broadcast quality editors and producers. WMG's edit suites are state of the art, and their staff of professional editors can either guide you through editing your own projects or do the work for you. More details about the new XDCam Decks For Rent are available on WMG's website at www.WestsideMediaGroup.com or by calling 310-979-3500.