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By SVG Staff | Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:09 am
Literally tens of thousands of hours of NCAA championship sports footage is available online through a deal the NCAA cut with Thought Equity, a footage licensing and management company. Thought Equity is currently in the midst of a massive digitization project of the entire archived library of NCAA championships coverage, beginning with footage captured as […]
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By SVG Staff | Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:14 am
On January 28 Aspen will host ESPN s annual Winter X Games, a televised celebration of backside rotations, double grabs, and pop tarts. But it s also a cutting-edge technology showcase as the network looks to make its coverage as intense as some of the tricks in the competition. ESPN s XGames coverage will push […]
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By SVG Staff | Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:01 am
After further review instant replay seems headed to return to college football this fall. The past season was the first wide-spread test of the technology, with eight of Division I football s 11 conferences using it to help officials make some tough calls. So now the NCAA and the American Football Coaches Association have to […]
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By SVG Staff | Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 6:09 pm
Fox has The Simpsons. NASCAR.com has The Kellys. And they both have Nancy Cartwright. Best known as the voice of Bart Simpson, Cartwright s own company, SportsBlast, has given NASCAR racing fans an animated family of its own for nearly five years. With the help of Flash animation technology, up to 47 employees, and a […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 9:57 pm
New Sony HD option arrives in March Sports broadcasters and teams looking for another HD option will have yet another in early March when Sony begins shipping XDCAM HD, the high-definition version of its XDCAM blu-ray based recording format. “All sports teams are dealing with HD networks that are asking the teams for footage but […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 5:15 pm
Sports broadcasters and teams looking for another HD option will have yet another in early March when Sony begins shipping XDCAM HD, the high-definition version of its XDCAM blu-ray based recording format. All sports teams are dealing with HD networks that are asking the teams for footage but the can only provide SD footage, says […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 3:37 pm
The Score, Canada s Home for the Hardcore sports cable channel, recently acquired and implemented FOR-A s digiWarp-EX II virtual studio system to give a boost to its on-air look and feel, marking it the first time the network has ever utilized virtual sets. All of The Score s 24-hour-a-day sports news and information programming […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 2:28 pm
Sunday night the NFL season culminates in Super Bowl XL, a game that delivers guaranteed phenomenal ratings and an even more phenomenal technical telecast. Nearly a dozen production-related trucks and vehicles will be on hand from NEP Supershooters of Pittsburgh, PA at Ford Field in Detroit. The goal? To ensure that ABC’s telecast goes off […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 2:25 pm
Tektronix has been selected to provide WFM700 Waveform Monitors, WVR7100 Rasterizers and TG700 Multiformat Video Generators to NBC during the network’s coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics from Torino, Italy, February 10-26. The announcement was made today by Dave Mazza, Senior Vice President, NBC Olympics and Todd Biddle, Vice President, Video Product Line at Tektronix. […]
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By SVG Staff | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 9:36 am
Comcast Corporation, the country’s leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services and Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, today announced the launch of exercisetv – the first comprehensive on-demand network dedicated to fitness, sports instruction and motivational programming. Exercisetv offers consumers unprecedented access to the world’s leading fitness video/DVD producers 24 hours […]
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