As Griiip’s start-up motorsport series G1 prepares to race its first full season, LiveU has revealed ambitious plans to outfit not just G1 series vehicles with its video transmission units but the race cars of every motorsport. More
While Canon’s principal focus at NAB 2019 will be on promoting and extending the capabilities of its 4K HDR broadcast lenses, there will be continued speculation and hints of actual news about its plans for the 8K live market. The company has been teasing an 8K broadcast product since 2015/16 when it debuted a prototype […] More
eSports has evolved beyond the realm of niche entertainment and cemented itself into the mainstream. What took it so long? More
Discovery has revealed that subscribers to Eurosport Player peaked at 1.2 million during the Winter Olympics in February but have since dropped — although not below its pre-Olympic start point of 200,000. More
The BBC says it has found the answer to one of the problems bedevilling the industry’s transition to live HDR production — that of not compromising the standard dynamic range signal. More
The world’s most popular motorsport gets the greenlight in Melbourne on 25 March under new management and an evolving suite of editorial products designed to reinvigorate storytelling and return to the visceral wheel to wheel action viewers may recall from the battles of Hunt v Lauda or Prost v Senna. Liberty Media completed its acquisition […] More
Taking stock of the latest technological changes as 2017 draws to a close, SVG Europe found NEP UK’s Keith Lane (VP Client Services) and Simon Moorhead (MD) to be in expansive mood as they considered the present and future potential of VR, the outlook for the OB business as a whole, and its own current […] More
The BBC’s move to ramp up coverage of sport online is part of a comprehensive strategy to shift more – and eventually all – of its live event production onto software and into the cloud. More
DAZN, the live and on-demand sport service, has only been running 14 months since exploding onto the scene in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. The UK-based streaming division of Perform Group has made big strides from newcomer to big player in the market in that time experiencing significant success in Japan and some hiccups in […] More
High profile glitches with live streamed sports indicate that, if the net isn’t broken, it is in need of a fix. The Mayweather-McGregor bout in August was targeted by 239 pirated streams (identified by security specialist Irdeto) but many viewers turned to illegal sites when the official pay per view stream failed to keep pace […] More
