By Kevin Hilton
SVG Europe correspondent
The BBC has over the years used its coverage of the 6 Nations rugby
union tournament as a testing ground for new television technologies
and on March 8 will mark a first by presenting the match between
England and Scotland in 3D. The Calcutta Cup game will be shown in 3D
stereoscopic high definition on [...]

By Carl Lindemann

By Ken Kerschbaumer
NBC Olympics, NHK, and CCTV are among the broadcasters that have committed to use a new XDCAM HD camera system from Sony that will make its debut at NAB. The PDW-700 camera can capture full-resolution 1920×1080 4:2:2 images at 50 Mbps and works hand-in-hand with the PDW-1500 recording deck.
Thirty of the cameras and [...]

The Summer of 2008 is shaping up to be the Summer of HD as the Beijing
Olympics make the transition to a complete HD infrastructure. The
world' biggest sporting event will also be the biggest showcase for
new HD technologies and workflows as broadcasters from around the
globe deliver thousands of hours of live event coverage in glorious
HD. If [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
High definition has become the norm in coverage of PGA golf events domestically and now broadcasters around the world will have the chance to broadcast in HD as PGA Tour Productions recently made its international feed control room HD capable.
The room is used for creating the enhanced international feed. It is not a [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
TNT’s coverage of the NBA All-Star game this year continues to evolve as Sportvision and Orad are stepping up with virtual-based technologies to deliver information to viewers in new ways and help but costs related to set design.
The big addition this year is Sportvision’s “backboard slideout” graphic effect. Based on the same technologies [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Broadcasters and sports leagues concerned that Federal Communications Commission testing of unlicensed devices designed for use in White Space spectrum will not have enough real-world testing have a new option: getting involved.
“We’re testing devices now in the labs and in the fields and any network interested in helping with field trials should contact [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Fox Sports is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Daytona 500 with a new HD camera angle that sounds like something out of Caddyshack but would make NASCAR founder Bill France proud: Gophercam. The specialty camera, based around Sony one-third-inch CMOS chip imaging technology, a DPA microphone and built by Inertia Unlimited, will [...]

By Ken Kerschbaumer
Later this week the National Basketball League will put the emphasis on HD coverage of its All-Star game and slam dunk contest but with the help of Newtek’s Tricaster production system it has recently begun to give fans the chance to see the All-Stars of tomorrow today.
The NBA’s Development League (D-League) is comprised [...]

By Andrew Lippe

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