Eurosport has been doing this for many of its languages/versions for
years and years, except without the full all camera's feed, just the
main broadcast. Actually traditional broadcasters have done this for
decades. At the scene commentators position isn't much better at some
events, at the Tour de France, there is a view of the finish, but the
rest of the race is followed on a small monitor and 'radio tour'. Radio
commentators may crawl onto the back of a motorcycle...
So does ESPN also do remote production? Perhaps even control the
camera's from a centrallocation or at least direct them remotely?
Here in Holland the KNVB (Dutch Football Assocation) has a deal with
John de Mol's Talpa to provide (all) amateur clubs with those auto
capture and streaming systems for live and on demand coverage of every
local amateur club's games. There's been at least one trial with a pole
at each side being fitted with a camera capturing every part of the
field. The system Auto selecting goals, actions, and other highlights
(after the fact, or even live).
Craig Birkmaier schreef op 29-09-2018 16:31:
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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