Interesting stuff.
I had lunch with Michael Silbergleid recently here in Gainesville. He told me
about a technique ESPN uses for coverage of games that illustrates how
technology continues to evolve, now to help contain the cost of cover sporting
events.
Apparently - although I cannot find any confirming info on the Internet - ESPN
has multiple “studios” in Bristol, where the announcers call the game being
broadcast. Instead of traveling to the site of the game, they just go to the
studio, where they can see all of the camera feeds from the game, and call it
as if they were there. They can even be chroma keyed over live feeds from the
game to make it appear they are there.
This allows for announcers to cover more events without the time lost to travel
and the associated expenses.
Regards
Craig
On Sep 28, 2018, at 9:28 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Schubin wrote:
for 50 years before television is the subject of my paper just
published in the /Proceedings of the IEEE/ (free link):
http://bit.ly/pre-tv
Suspensfully written, Mark. I couldn't figure out where this was going, at
first. Nice!
Funny how these evolutions have a way of repeating themselves. Before the era
of videoteleconferencing, and certainly before webex, our office was invited
to see a demo of a remotely controlled blackboard, at a local AT&T office. In
essence, what looked like white chalk lines appeared on the blackboard from a
remote site, and the blackboard could also be used to transmit pictures the
other way. Audio was from a telephone line.
Same sort of idea. When communications bandwidth is lacking, you have to
essentially build a replica of the physical venue, as it were, and create
movement only in the bare essentials. It's a form of bandwidth compression.
(At that AT&T presentation, all I could think was, just show us the
presenter, and his board, on video. That would be useful. Webex is not there
yet. Large screen 4K videoconferencing should be good enough, to read an
actual board, although now it's easier to transmit the PowerPoint viewgraph.)
Bert
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