AV makes F1. To really appreciate the F1 experience you’ve got to see, smell and almost taste the atmosphere at the track, but everywhere you look, and almost every interaction you have with the sport, as a spectator, guest or team professional, you’re using or benefiting from AV in one…
Sports and arenas
Fibre network beams live coverage of the X Games in the Alps
The event was co-produced by Canal+ Events and GB4D provided virtually all the audio equipment for the competition zones, to assist A+ Events. This included the control tower audio boards and FOH equipment, the fibre network, PA, cabling and event video distribution. Audio transmission was based around two Optocore loops…
TSL supplies HD production facilities to sports broadcaster IMG
Due for completion in August 2013, the new facility will be built around an Atos Broadcast Network Control System (BNCS) and house four 3Gb/s HD main studios, nine galleries for live production of programmes for the BBC and ESPN with its Barclay’s Premier League matches. Other areas include an MCR,…
Riedel provides signal distribution to 2013 Alpine Ski World Cup
Working with Munich-based sono Studiotechnik GmbH, which oversaw set up of the International Broadcast Centre for host broadcaster ORF, Riedel installed a fiber network comprising 42 MediorNet mainframes and 60 RockNet digital audio interfaces. In addition to the signal distribution responsibilities, Riedel also introduced their new wireless RiCam POV camera…
Gearhouse chooses Custom Consoles Module-R for UEFA match control room
Located in Nyon on the north-west shore of Lake Geneva, the new facility includes a Match Control Room with three tiered desks facing a front monitor wall. "All three desks together with the monitor wall surround are finished in white laminate, "said Custom Consoles sales manager Gary Fuller. "Every desk…
London 2012 Olympics is a 3D HD broadcast milestone
The Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) produced over 200 hours of 3D coverage during the Games, including using the latest integrated twin-lens Panasonic 3D camcorders. As well as adopting Panasonic’s DVCPRO HD standards as the video recording format, the file-based workflow was based on AVC-Intra standards. Panasonic provided a wide range…
Applications – Stadiums & Festivals: Smart venues
Stadiums are symbols of national or civic pride but with a commercial sensibility to recoup the millions poured into them. Festivals are artistic, often hedonistic events based on the 1960s ethos of equality and music for all. Both are big business and rely on the latest audio and visual technology…