Welcome to Part 3 of ‘Live Sports Production’ - This multi-part series uses a round table style format to explore the technology of live sports production with some of the industry’s leading broadcast engineers. It is a fascinating insight into what is being done every day around the world.
Part 3 dives a little deeper into the infrastructure differences between Full OB, Full Remote and Hybrid workflows with a particular focus on venue systems. We discuss on-site connectivity, latency, and the flow of monitoring and data across the system. Our contributors are the senior managers for OB and venue systems at NEP Americas and NEP UK.
As the media and entertainment industry looks ahead to a future defined by multiplatform complexity and rapid technological change, Interra Systems’ solutions empower broadcasters, telcos, and streaming providers to deliver outstanding viewer experiences.
The Video Services Forum (VSF) has further enhanced the Reliable Internet Streaming Transport (RIST) protocol by incorporating a new feature, RIST Satellite-Hybrid: In Band Method. This feature can be used to augment satellite distribution, using the Internet as a recovery mechanism for data that is corrupted or lost in the space segment. This is important for Ku-band operation, as it is subject to rain fade.
BCNEXXT will showcase the future of playout operations at IBC2025 with a new version of cloud-native Vipe. Vipe’s unique pre-assembly, exception-based architecture greatly reduces operator-to-channel ratios and infrastructure costs while delivering 99.9999% reliability and unrivaled flexibility and agility. With its highly experienced team, BCNEXXT has changed the paradigm by introducing a new level of automation.
Pebble is turning its vision to the future of automation with its demonstrations at IBC2025. The company will showcase its solutions for managing increasingly complex operations.
This year’s IBC 2025 showcase highlights how Telestream empowers media companies to simplify complex workflows, transition to cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and maintain operational excellence across today’s fast-paced, fragmented media landscape.
To maximize the “wow factor,” a new technology must be undeniably better, faster and/or cheaper. It must also have sufficient impact to knock everyone’s socks off, like flat-panel HDTV compared to a NTSC 19” Trinitron TV. NextGen TV technology is learning to crawl before it knocks everyone’s socks off, and the NAB and FCC are leading the way.
Actus Digital, a LiveU company, will demonstrate how broadcasters can transform compliance monitoring from a necessary expense into a strategic revenue driver at IBC2025.