Wireless RF cameras are one of the great sport production innovations of recent times, allowing access and angles that simply aren’t possible with cables. But it is also an area of the market that is fraught with complexity and volatility, as leading industry figures discussed during a panel session entitled ‘Wireless Cameras: Innovation, Frequency and […] More
Deltatre and Forbidden Technologies used SVG Europe’s SportTech Europe conference in Manchester to highlight the benefits of combining virtualised media production services into a cloud-based workflow. Speaking during a session called ‘Integrated Virtualised Services’, Pete Burns, Commercial Manager at deltatre and Jason Cowan, Director of Business Development for Forbidden’s forscene cloud-based logging, editing and delivery […] More
Live sport producers, facilities and broadcasters will be given the chance to take a phased or hybrid approach to the transition from baseband to IP, according to representatives of six of the broadcast industry’s most influential equipment manufacturers. Speaking during the ‘Live Production over IP: Charting the Transition from Baseband’ session at SVG Europe’s SportTech […] More
Organized to reflect – and react to – the current media boom in the North West of England, BVE North is a new event organized by the team behind London’s well-established BVE (Broadcast Video Expo). It seems they have a success on their hands… More
Deltatre Media and Mammoth Graphics have been awarded the contract to devise and produce live broadcast graphics for the BBC’s coverage of the London Olympics in 2012, writes UK Correspondent, Will Strauss. More
Televised sports established the 5.1 surround audio format as the emerging standard for broadcast-sports sound. This year, as sports moves more deeply into the streaming domain, fans who have grown accustomed to surround sound on televisions might miss it on Internet distribution channels. Fraunhofer, the German technology think tank that brought us the MP3 format, […] More
Jason Power, senior director of marketing for broadcast at Dolby, happily points to some great-sounding audio for drama and sports thundering from a home-theater setup in Dolby’s booth at the NAB Show. But rather than the screen, it’s the Nokia N8 mobile phone that he wants you to notice. It’s fitted with Dolby Digital Plus, […] More
The console technology in US remote-broadcast trucks supporting the sports-broadcast industry has been relatively static for much of the past decade, with Calrec dominating a market sector that relies heavily on freelance engineers whose network employers prefer that they have a familiar work surface waiting for them no matter where the show is. But, thanks […] More
