NBC Olympics venue operations are always challenged by everything from the weather to venue changes and even little things like travelling from the IBC to venues and from venue to venue. This year, those challenges expanded a bit with the arrival of UHD, HDR and immersive audio. But, fortunately, some changes on the OBS front […] More
When the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games ended, OBS CTO Sotiris Salamouris and his team laid out a vision for the 2020 Tokyo Games that was ambitious. Not only did they want to transition from SDI to IP, but they also wanted to go all UHD and HDR. It was an ambitious plan and one that […] More
As head of engineering for OBS Isidoro Moreno knows his tech. And at the 2020 Tokyo Games he is drawing on all his skills as well as those of his team. Why? Because not only are the Tokyo Olympics the first ever to be all IP but it is also all UHD, all HDR and […] More
One of the highlights of a visit to an Olympics IBC is getting a chance to see the team at work in the technical area. Any time of day there will be at least some activity going on and watching the amount of work being done lower and rise based on the tide of incoming […] More
The pandemic may have caused the OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Services) team to pause its efforts but it didn’t pause a focus on innovation as the Tokyo Olympics will long be remembered as the launching point of some major technological efforts. Top industry trends like UHD, HDR, spatial audio, cloud services, AI, and 5G will all […] More
Listen closely to the sound of the Summer Olympics, because there will be a lot of firsts. For instance, it will be the first Olympics broadcast in 5.4.1 immersive audio, with four overhead channels adding an upper dimension to the indoor events. And, due to last-minute COVID restrictions imposed by the Japanese government that bar […] More
SVG’s coverage of the production of the Tokyo Olympics begins in earnest this week and we kick things off with a series of OBS executive interviews that have been provided by OBS to the media (our team will be on site next week and will interview them in the coming weeks). Below is an interview […] More
SVG’s coverage of the production of the Tokyo Olympics begins in earnest this week and we kick things off with a series of OBS executive interviews that have been provided by OBS to the media (our team will be on site next week and will interview them in the coming weeks). Below is an interview […] More
SVG Europe’s recent Audio Group discussion titled 5G Audio Production, which highlighted the challenges and provided an educational look into this upcoming technology, is now available on demand. The event, in which BBC Research and Development, BT Sport and Olympic Broadcast Services and more spoke about 5G uses in audio production, workflows, use cases and […] More
EVS has won a contract with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), host broadcaster of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, to supply solutions for the centralised ingest, management and distribution of its media content. The company will also be responsible for a comprehensive media server infrastructure that will give operatives instant access to thousands of hours […] More
