NEP Australia has been hard at work in recent months, and not just on productions big and small. The company has also embraced 4K in a big way, with all facilities – both those with wheels and those without – now capable of true 4K production. “This is driven by local demand for 4K as […] More
At the 2022 NAB Show, Sony Electronics is unveiling and showcasing a massive collection of products, services, and innovations aligned around imaging, Internet Protocol (IP), the cloud and visualization realm. We caught up with Hugo Gaggioni, CTO of Sony Professional Solutions of America to chat about the latest developments in the company’s work in UHD, HDR, and […] More
Sky Sports in the UK and Sky Sport in Germany will show coverage of this season’s Formula 1 motor racing Championship in high dynamic range (HDR) for the first time, it has been announced. The addition to the UHD output will provide viewers with a greater difference between the brightest and darkest parts of an […] More
In conversation with SVG Europe’s Jo Ruddock, Leader Europe sales engineering manager Kevin Salvidge discusses 4K, UHD HDR and remote production for sports and how the latest test and measurement tools fit within those workflows. More
By Julian Fernández-Campón, CTO, Tedial. Recent global sporting events have re-accelerated the industry’s roll out of 4K and 8K as well as HDR and HFR technology enhancements, as media companies – particularly the streamers and production facilities – continue the push to deliver the very highest quality pictures to viewers. The transition to UHD for […] More
By Ciro A. Noronha, EVP of engineering, Cobalt Digital High dynamic range (HDR) is an emerging technology that delivers noticeably better image quality than standard dynamic range (SDR) content with essentially the same bandwidth. However, while HDR continues to gain popularity, SDR needs to be preserved – at least for the near future – because […] More
By Prinyar Boon, product manager, Phabrix 2021 has seen several technologies that have been in gestation over the last few years burst into the mainstream, including cloud production, distributed production, HDR, extended reality (XR), and JPEG XS with SMPTE ST 2110-22. The most visible of these was HDR with both the delayed Tokyo Olympic Games […] More
By Bryce Button, director of product marketing, AJA Video Systems As more fans returned to stadiums and arenas worldwide this past year, sports leagues, broadcasters and technology developers came together to elevate the spectator experience in-venue as well as for fans watching from afar. Innovation came in the form of higher quality match broadcasts and […] More
By Charles Kraus, senior product marketing manager, Limelight Networks As we enter the holiday season, so come the requests for 2022 predictions. Forecasts abound. What I’m most excited about are the growth forecasts for sports streaming. You have to like the prediction from Verified Market Research, that the business of streaming live sports is expected […] More
By Norbert Paquet, head of live productions solutions, Sony Professional, Sony Europe Sports productions are prehistoric. This statement might surprise you but cave paintings found in the Lascaux caves in France seem to depict sprinting and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 15,300 years ago. Other examples exist of our prehistoric attempts to chronicle a sporting event. Neolithic rock art found at the cave […] More
