\n<\/em>Click here<\/a> for Tech Focus: Intercoms, Part 2 \u2014 Suppliers\u2019 Offerings Reflect Increased Reliance on Remote Production.<\/em><\/p>\n
The commentators will talk to each other and the audience and will listen in to players through ambience microphones in the playing space (competition rules prohibit wiring contestants directly). A Telos Infinity IP-based intercom system is deployed for this, Downs says, citing its ability to minimize latency through the cloud.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest challenge for comms in chess: a low-latency mix-minus so that the talent can hear each other without having to hear themselves\u201d with a distracting delay, he explains.<\/p>\n Chess.com tried several unusual solutions coming out of the COVID lockdown, including using the Discord chat service online, which Downs says worked in terms of connectivity but was operationally cumbersome. The Telos Infinity achieved the same end \u2014 a reduction in latency \u2014 with a higher degree of reliability and ease of use.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the same positions as any other sports in a control room \u2014 audio, tape replay \u2014 but all remote,\u201d says Mike Buetsch, director, broadcast engineering and production, Chess.com<\/strong>. \u201cOur use of intercom is more than just as a back channel. We use it to transport talent audio to streaming and IFB, so latency is a real issue. We can have full production capabilities without having a dedicated central physical location.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chess isn\u2019t usually the first event that comes to mind for sports media, but what\u2019s regarded as one of the oldest competitive games in history will be part of the […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":254393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59,9248,2155],"tags":[22042,20171,2164],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254459,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254392\/revisions\/254459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/chess.com-logo.png\"){kind=logo}
<\/a>\u201cChess.com is 100% remote production,\u201d says Chess.com<\/strong> Broadcast Tech Manager Bryan Downs<\/strong>, noting that it will have an \u201cadvisory\u201d role during chess matches at the Olympics. \u201cWe have no headquarters, no plant. Every crewmember has an intercom panel in their home connected over a browser and the internet. We\u2019ll usually have two talents that interface using a mix-minus into the cloud and back.\u201d<\/p>\n