Recent Posts by Adrian Pennington
By Adrian Pennington | Monday, February 22, 2016 - 08:37
The handing of Channel 4’s £30 million three year presentation contract for Formula One to a rookie sports producer raised eyebrows when it should have acknowledged the Grand Prix pedigree […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Monday, February 1, 2016 - 02:50
At IBC 2015 Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo announced it would outfit the first 4K over IP mobile facility. Timed to be ready for the Rio Olympics, the truck is still […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 12:03
Arena Television is spending a mammoth £20 million ($29m) on not one but three triple expander UHD all-IP trucks timed to be on the road this year. OBX, OBY and […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 11:45
Despite vocal efforts to avoid launching the new era of IP based television as a minefield of proprietary and inoperable systems, broadcast manufacturers seem to be doing just that. There […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 06:05
The number of High Dynamic Range solutions may have reduced but agreement on a single agreed standard may be further away following an announcement by Technicolor and Philips to marry […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, December 4, 2015 - 02:42
A straw poll of the audience at SVG Europe’s FutureSport (2 December) to gauge whether anyone was using IP for production now – or even in a few years – […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, November 6, 2015 - 12:27
The possibility of an ‘infinite seat’ that a club, league or rights holder could sell any number of times has to be the holy grail of sports monetisation and Virtual […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 10:13
The urgent need to chase the millennial is leading broadcasters to belatedly attempt to capture a share of the online phenomenon esports. The BBC is the latest to jump on […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Monday, October 5, 2015 - 10:44
The battle for the millennial sports audience is happening online and astonishingly without the rights to show live action that has been the mainstay of pay TV broadcaster growth. Coverage […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, October 2, 2015 - 04:57
High Dynamic Range (HDR) is suddenly all the rage. By expanding the ratio between the lightest and darkest parts of the video image, live event broadcasters see it as an […]
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