What impact does sports have on driving the HD transition? What HD
sports experiences do viewers treasure the most? And do viewers really
care if games involving their favorite team are available in HD? If you
want to find out the answers and are heading out to the Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas join the Sports Video [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
NMT is putting the final touches on HD12, a new three-trailer mobile unit that will be at the core of CBS Sports operations beginning in late January. The truck will handle all CBS Sports PGA coverage as well as NCAA men’s basketball and the network’s football coverage next season.
“We only have 12 weeks [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Tonight marks the beginning of an exceptionally busy season for ESPN as it kicks off the 2006-2007 Bowl season with a production of the Poinsettia Bowl from San Diego.
“It’s an exciting, busy time,” says Wendell Grigely, ESPN senior director of remote operations of the networks 23 Bowl game telecasts (including two on ABC) [...]

The Sports Video Group held its first-annual League Technology Summit on Dec. 12 at the New York Hilton Hotel and more than 400 sports industry professionals representing every size and stripe of TV network, league, truck services partner and 25 equipment manufacturers braved NYC

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Sony Electronics has launched two sports sales and marketing teams to address the growing demand for video, audio and broadband technology across the nation.

By Ken Kerschbaumer
The MPEG-4 h.264 AVC format has been embraced widely by cable, telco and satellite distributors as a means to cut down on the amount of bandwidth it takes to transmit SD and HD channels to subscribers but now the format, which can deliver the equivalent picture quality in half the bits of DVCPRO [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Lip sync issues plague the entire broadcast and cable TV industry as digital encoding and decoding processes and transmission invariably lead to the audio and video portion of a signal becoming disconnected and out of sync.
Sigma Electronics believes it has found the answer with Arbalest, an encoding and decoding system that costs $19,900 [...]

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