Mark Hallinger

At a big event with dozens of venues such as the London Games, flexibility ranks right up there with quality and reliability in the “must have” troika needed in a supporting technology.

Audio and comms coalition tackles a big one, primed for next big event

Sometimes it’s called comms. Sometimes intercoms. In London, it’s talkback.

24sataTV created a budget 24/7 news channel from an existing web-centric infrastructure

Mark Hallinger, editor of TV Technology Europe and Asia/Pacific editions, was in Sochi covering NBC for two weeks.

During the Sochi Games fibre-based media transport systems were needed for coverage of competitions and ceremonies coverage, and also for sports presentations, timekeeping and more.

NBC Olympics wasn’t the only part of the Peacock Network that relied on big workflow advances in Sochi

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have a large Winter Games presence, which makes sense given that in Sochi, Germany was once again likely to be at or near the top of the medal count

Broadcasters are looking for highly efficient transmission solutions that have low total cost of ownership, with software upgradability to allow for 4/8k transmission on their timetables

4K has become the acquisition format of choice for most of our customers; they see it as a way of future-proofing their content.

LiveShot is especially optimized to perform well on challenging IP networks like 3G, 4G and satellite-based links.

The 4K Tool Box supports all current and anticipated 4K video formats up to 4096 x 2160/60p and has ports supporting a wide variety of connection formats