The Sports Video Group (SVG) recently selected OATSystems for an RFID pilot study designed to track video production equipment at Super Bowl XLI. The pilot project was coordinated with Bexel, the leading video rental resource in the USA and principal supplier of broadcast rental equipment for this year’s event.
“A Super Bowl game is arguably one [...]

TV Technology is reporting that yet another bill to allow unlicensed devices into unused TV broadcast channels is in development on Capitol Hill. A staff member for Rep. Jay Inslee's (D-Wash.) confirmed that the congressman likely would introduce his own white space bill “in the coming weeks.”
This isn't Inslee's first crack at white spaces legislation [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
ESPN’s 2007 NASCAR coverage features new gadgets like HD in-car cameras from BSI and a new drafting graphic from Sportvision but it’s NEP’s SS21 unit that is the most impressive new gadget, with four mobile units ensuring ESPN keeps up with the nation’s fastest drivers.
“Daytona went pretty well for such a large endeavor,” [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
This past weekend the National Basketball Association, with the help of Bexel, PaceHD, Sony, Canon, and Pesa, set a new benchmark in impressive debuts with a three-dimensional HD production of the weekend’s All-Star game festivities in Las Vegas that exceed expectations and wowed more than 2,000 viewers.
“After watching this if you offered me [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
When the NBA All-Star game and its weekend-long festivities take place in Las Vegas next weekend it will mark the first time the game will be held in a city without an NBA franchise. But it will also mark another first: the world’s first live 3D HD production for a live sporting event, [...]

Building upon the publishing success of the SVG Mobile Sports Production Yearbook, the SPORTS VIDEO GROUP has announced the launch of a new engineering journal for sports production and broadcast professionals, Sports Technology Journal (STJ), in spring 2007.

By Ken Kerschbaumer
A new product introduced by Dolby at the Consumer Electronics Show designed to help viewers at home address the annoyances of inconsistent loudness in broadcast TV audio has stirred up concern among Dolby’s professional customers that the new technology will impact the way they should approach DTV audio signals and metadata.
But Dolby’s Rocky [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
When CBS Sports offered the world the first unified HD Super Bowl production from Houston three years ago the move required CBS to use four of the five HD productions truck available in the U.S.
Three years later the Super Bowl compound in Miami for Super Bowl XLI is awash in HD vehicles, a [...]

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