CONTENTS /// EDITORIAL EditorMark Hallinger
Tel: 1 301 467 1695 Email:
mhallinger@nbmedia.com Tech Editor Craig Norris
Contributing Editor James Careless
Contributors Ann-Marie Corvin, Kevin Hilton, Phil Reed NEWBAY MEDIA LLC CORPORATE
President and CEO Steve Palm Chief Financial Officer Paul Mastronardi Controller Jack Liedke
Group Circulation Director Denise Robbins
Vice President of Web Development Joe Ferrick PUBLISHER
Steve Connolly Tel: +44 (0) 20 7354 6000
Email:
steve.connolly@
intentmedia.co.uk ADVERTISING
Sales Executive Sharifa Marshall Tel: +44 (0) 20 7354 6000
Email:
sharifa.marshall@
intentmedia.co.uk
European Sales Director Graham Kirk Tel: +44 (0)1223 911224
Email:
g.kirk@
audiomedia.com
U.S. Midwest, New England & Canada Vytas Urbonas Email:
vurbonas@nbmedia.com
U.S. West Pete Sembler Email:
psembler@nbmedia.com
U.S. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, US Classifieds & Product Showcase Michele Inderrieden Email:
minderrieden@nbmedia.com
Hong Kong, China, Asia/PacificWengong Wang Email:
wwg@imaschina.com
Italy Raffaella Calabrese
Email:
rcalabrese@broadcast.it Latin America Susana Saibene
Email:
susana.saibene@
gmail.com
TV Technology Europe ISSN 2053-6674 (Print) ISSN 2053-6682 (Online)
is published seven times annually by Intent Media. ©2013 by Intent Media. All rights reserved.
Suncourt House, 18-26 Essex Road, London, N18LN, England
Free subscriptions are available to professional broadcasting and audio visual equipment users. Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome for review – send to Mark Hallinger at the feedback address.
PRODUCTION Production Director Davis White
Group Head of Design & Production Adam Butler Email:
adam.butler@intentmedia.co.uk
Production Executive Jason Dowie
Jason.dowie@
intentmedia.co.uk
Designer Jat Garcha
jat.garcha@
intentmedia.co.uk
Susan Ashworth on the state of play as the industry meets in Las Vegas, and product debut coverage
4 SPECIAL REPORT:
MULTISCREEN IN SOCHI Mark Hallinger on how a host companion screen service made this Winter Olympics complete
6 TECH NEWS: T2-LITE Davide Moro was along for the ride on a recent test of the impressive mobile video technology
8 EXHIBITIONS: NAB
14 BUYERS GUIDE: Fibre, Cable & Connectors;
Test & Measure Two user reports, a case study, and product news
22 SMPTE UPDATE Alan Lambshead on maintaining proactive standards work
24 SHARPSHOOTER: Josh White The UK shooter’s life of constant variety
27 LAST LINES: EMPIRICAL QoE Simen Frostad on a more empirical QoE
A Sport Paradigm Shift
In an era of time-shifted and on-demand viewing, live and near-live sport production has become increasingly important. Tis year two big events--- -February’s Winter Olympics from Sochi and the upcoming FIFA World Cup from Rio----will showcase how new production methods and technologies are bringing amazing coverage to a wider range of viewers than ever before. Anyone involved in big event sport production
over the last 20 years has lived through very real technical improvements. Many of these improvements have allowed the home viewing experience to rival and in many ways surpass the ‘live’ stadium experience. Consider amazing slow motion replays, specialty camera shots from positions unimaginable before, 5.1 Surround audio, and now the availability of clip-based and live programming on multiple screens. Moving forward, 4K may in the medium term up the ante in terms of raw image quality, while new softwares could allow home viewers to call up cameras for home viewing as if they were a TD. At a more basic engineering level , infrastructures have evolved from SD analogue to SD-SDI, and onwards to HD-SDI. IP connectivity is the latest improvement that is becoming ubiquitous in most broadcast infrastructures at Big Events. Remote productions relying on file-based transfers and trunked communications between continents have become quite common, and the availability of every hour of a multi-day event, instantly and logged for easy searching, cannot be understated.
Technology is doing more than just satisfying
‘Gold-Plated’ customers in developed countries with a long history of Games coverage. It’s also bringing the spirit of the Games to markets that have little or no historical Games background, whether in terms of participation or TV coverage. “In Sochi we realized we were experiencing a huge paradigm shift in the way that the Games were becoming accessible in homes all over the world when our technical support was spending time remotely helping an Asia/Pacific broadcaster, located close to the equator, to receive over satellite our seven channels of HDTV live sports content”, said Sotiris Salamouris, Head of Engineering and Technical Operations for host broadcaster Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), in an interview from Sochi. He added that as recently as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, there were countries that would only broadcast a few highlights several hours after the live events. Today the host broadcaster can offer almost 100
percent of Olympic content for almost any type of screen to practically anywhere in the world. We’ve arrived somewhere pretty good, so bring on the 4K!
Mark Hallinger Editor & Associate Publisher
Cover image courtesy of Craig Norris.
April 2014 I TV Technology Europe 3////////////////
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28