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 An umbilical contains all the cables to connect a camera through to the control room for a live show. These are run in parallel inside a flexible plastic sheath, so they should be dead easy to connect up and move around with, without risking tangling everything.
+==Old Umbilical==
 A typical umbilical should contain:
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 * A Cat-5 cable (network cable) for [[Tally_(Roxanne)|Tally]]. This should be connected to a tally block on the camera end, and the tally splitter (menorah) at the other end, which then links to the tally line back to the control room
-Umbilicals come in a selection of lengths, from shorter for studio use to a couple of extremely long ones for on-stage use at Woodstock. Most umbilicals have a carabiner, allowing them to be attached to the camera without putting strain on the cables and connectors. It's also an easy way of identifying which end of an umbilical should go where.
+==2019 replacements==
+The fate of the original umbilical set is unknown, although with the changing equipment they probably became redundant or broke, there has been no replacement for at least a few years (as of 2019). There is a plan to update this system and build new versions of the Umbilical for future studio shows.
+At this point, the plan follows closely to the original design: Containing.
+* XLR 3 pin, for comms
+* COAX for camera signal
+* 13A power for the converters
+* CAT5 possibly for some form of new tally if it ever happens
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