By Paul Shonfield, Caton Technology sales director for EMEA. Sport is the most popular genre on television. It brings excitement and real jeopardy because you never know what is going to happen in a live sport event. The result of this is that large sports bodies and clubs have built up very strong business cases, […] More
By Liz McParland, Globecast commercial director, contribution As we all know, the industry has been alive with both talk of remote production and movement to the cloud as part of the broadcast chain. At this year’s IBC, it was clear and obvious to see the step change. A noticeable amount of floor space was dedicated […] More
By Peter Abecassis, Grass Valley senior product marketing manager. Today’s audiences want to interact with an event before, during, and after it takes place. Social media and over the top (OTT) streaming services have sizzle reels leading up to an event to create excitement, reaction clips to key moments during an event, and highlight reels […] More
By Tom Blake, Imagen commercial director. The Devoncroft Big Broadcast Survey back in 2021 indicated three factors to be significantly higher priority than all else: multi-platform content delivery; IP networking and content delivery; and remote production (REMI). In the 2022 survey there was a stark shift; whilst REMI and multi-platform content are still important, there […] More
By Ciro A. Noronha, Ph.D., Cobalt Digital chief technology officer. There are three aspects to sports broadcasting: production, contribution, and distribution. What I am going to focus on is the use of IP technologies in these areas, specifically for sports. And, to make things fun, I will talk specifically about the internet wherever appropriate. Let’s […] More
By Martin Dyster, Telos Alliance VP business development. I’ve been re-reading an article that I wrote around a year ago for SVG Europe, looking back at the effect of the pandemic on how audio technology had evolved, how workflows had adapted and trying to predict what changes might come in 2022 and beyond. I had […] More
By Daniel Carpini, Vislink marketing specialist. It could be argued that the broadcast organisations behind live sports productions have become victims of their own success. Live sports viewers are now accustomed to high quality productions featuring multi-camera capture of onsite action, a dizzying array of angled shots and replays, nonstop expert commentary, sideline reporting and […] More
By Laurent Petit, EVS SVP markets and solutions. As we look forward to 2023, we can expect to see companies embrace some of the key technology trends that were already underway pre-pandemic, but were somewhat pushed aside over the past few years, mostly in favour of remote production. Customers are now shifting to a more […] More
By Grigory Mindlin, Disguise general manager for broadcast. Since the pandemic made online experiences necessary and desired, the boundaries between the physical and virtual worlds have been blurring. With the advancement of spatial computing and the development of powerful gaming engines and technologies, a new 3D world is just around the corner. The idea of […] More
By Carol Bettencourt, Chyron VP of marketing. At a high level, 2023 will be an interesting year, in part because we’ll see the convergence of three key ongoing trends. The first of these trends is the mental shift that occurred with and through the pandemic. It’s the acceptance that in the emerging post-COVID landscape – […] More
