Recent Posts by Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor
By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Friday, February 14, 2014 - 10:37
Microsoft was selected to be the cloud encoding and hosting platform provider for NBC Olympics in Sochi. As a result, viewers can watch Winter Olympics programming via more than 50 live HD streams and on-demand. In addition, Microsoft is working with iStreamPlanet and its cloud-based, live video workflow solution Aventus to power live video ingest […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 09:00
The 2014 Olympics are underway in Sochi, Russia; the first Winter Games to be held in the country. A number of modern Olympic venues were constructed as part the coastal resort town’s bid to host the Games, with the vast majority opening between 2012 and 2013. Between Sochi’s Coastal Cluster venues —including Olympic Park — stretching along […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 12:54
Next-gen video- and audio-transport technologies for large public venues offer ways to dramatically improve the quality of video and audio production in sports stadiums and venues. Because of the multiple […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 12:32
As sports venues on both sides of the Atlantic attempt to meet fan demands for increased connectivity and enhanced production systems, systems integrators and technology manufacturers must respond. SVG’s inaugural […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 11:45
As the professional A/V market trends towards 4K, traditional broadcast manufacturers are taking notice and lending their tools, workflows, and expertise to the industry. Broadcast technology was out in full […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 11:20
This week’s Integrated Systems Europe show in Amsterdam confirmed what many have long expected: widespread adoption of 4K will hit professional A/V ecosystems prior to the broadcast market. However, the […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 10:53
To say that technology has become pervasive in our lives is an understatement. Between mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and more, the ways to connect with one another are seemingly endless. […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 10:16
Elemental Technologies’s Elemental Live systems will be used by Channel One in Russia to stream the Sochi 2014 Olympics. In a system delivered by Open Technologies, one of the country’s leading IT suppliers, Elemental systems will process nine channels of Channel One Olympics programming for delivery of high-quality video over IP networks to multiple devices. […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 11:39
VISTA Worldlink will be providing global services from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi for rights holders and non-rights holders. Stand-up positions are available for live shots and satellite media tours with views of the main venue. Playout services, along with a full array of transmission offerings, are still available. Call VISTA’s Special Events department […]
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By Karen Hogan Ketchum, Senior Editor | Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 13:22
In less than a month, the international sports world will center on the unlikeliest of places: a small, Russian resort town located on the Black Sea, nearly 1,000 miles from Moscow. Russia’s first Winter Olympics will call Sochi home. NBC Sports will live-stream every event of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and, if the 2012 London […]
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