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The Mexico City-based network used 10 FOR-A frame rate converters at the Olympics....More

WORLD EDITION EXCLUSIVE: The last huge global sporting event, the 2010 World Cup, was pretty conventional as far as a television event. There was a dalliance with 3-D, but it was much like events before. What set the 2012 Olympics apart was that it was truly multiplatform, utilizing OTT to deliver full coverage of the many simultaneous events, and in a back room, a UHDTV demo....More

The Summer Olympic Games always provide a welcome respite from the political campaign coverage, the tit-for-tat, mud-slinging commercials and the incessant talking heads. With a Congress at vitriolic loggerheads and presidential opponents mounting increasingly scurrilous attacks against one another, that breather this year was particularly attractive. Trading news-cycle discussions of red and blue states for sports talk about our red, white and blue medal winners provides for much more enjoyable television viewing....More

The new Ericsson SVP 5500 HEVC encoder greatly reduces bandwidth requirements for current and future services while allowing operators to deliver consistent, high quality TV experiences on mobile devices....More

For Darryl Jefferson, as director of post-production operations for NBC’s “Highlights Factory,” it’s been an all-encompassing endeavor that has seen him act more like an orchestra conductor than content creation supervisor....More

At the Olympic Games, there's no room for error, and every second counts. The centralized asset storage capability powered by Chyron's HyperX³.¹ and Apple's Xsan 2 is a tremendous time-saver, enabling operators to instantly access media assets that were once only available to the Mac systems....More

Fast, efficient and agile. Those three words were surely part of virtually every athlete’s mantra at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, July 27 – Aug. 12. They could also be used to describe the strategy of broadcasters and production companies around the world — including NBC Olympics in the U.S. — for capturing, sharing, transmitting and streaming live and prerecorded HD (and some 3-D) images and getting them in front of viewers wherever they may be....More

BBC uses Adobe Primetime to deliver up to 24 live streams from Olympics across multiple devices. Primetime Highlights will be used to create on-demand packages for later viewing....More

WORLD EDITION EXCLUSIVE: This summer is a dream come true for armchair fans as broadcasters beam every second of sporting action to millions of viewers around the globe. Whether it’s the rallies of the tennis tournaments, the 100m hurdles or the penalty kicks of the football finals, audiences have been spoiled for choice with the wall-to-wall TV coverage....More