NBC broadcasts the Olympics. OO. Beijing Winter Festival with leading brands

The broadcast of NBC Sports of the JJ. OO. Beijing Winter Festival has relied on technology from manufacturers such as Sony, Mediakind, Calrec, TAG, EVS, Significance, Telestream, Leader y RTS.

NBCUniversal is producing more than 2,800 hours of coverage to NBC, Peacock, USA Network, CNBC, NBCOlympics.com and the application NBC Sports of the JJ. OO. Beijing 2022 Winter Games. In this way, the media group presents its 18th Olympic Games, the 12th consecutive in total, surpassing all records in the US market.

Sony She is one of the main protagonists of this broadcast. NBC Sports is using more than 100 Sony cameras to capture images at event venues and record interviews with athletes, press conferences and other tasks that require studio and laptop recording and capture in Beijing. Various Sony solutions, including HDC-3500, will be used for IP transmission, while the rest will work in SDI. NBC Sports is also adding more than 300 monitors Sony professionals, including master monitor BVM-HX310 4K HDR and the Trimaster 4K HDR from the series PVM-X; and Sony's professional services group, which offers a network of resources to provide 24/7 support.

Elsewhere, NBC Sports is utilizing NBC's range of advanced modular receivers and video processing technologies. MediaKind to support high-quality, low-latency video distribution. MediaKind's specialized engineers have assisted the NBC Sports team in installing the equipment and configuring the system. Additionally, they are on site to offer support at various locations throughout the event.

Calrec, RTS y EVS

For the first time, NBC Sports is using fully remote audio workflows for all of its Winter Games production, with no audio consoles physically on site at the event. Among other solutions, the NBC division is benefiting from four remote production cores Calrec RP1 at the International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Beijing to cover numerous studies. Full control of the IBC remote production cores is carried out with consoles Artemis located at the NBC Sports IBC in Stamford, Connecticut. Additionally, NBC Sports has installed four remote production units in four remote locations in Beijing. These will be connected through Dante to the consoles Artemis in the Stamford mobile units.

In the intercommunication section, NBC Sports once again trusts RTS, just as it has been doing for the last 25 years. Specifically, the North American television team has used solutions such as EVERYTHING for local communication, RV for international communications and Vlink as a virtual intercom panel.

EVS, as usual, does not miss one of the great sporting events of 2022. NBC Sports has deployed LiveCeption Signature in the international broadcast centers of Beijing and Stamford, as well as in other venues, as the hub of the live production of the Winter Olympic Games in 1080p – UHD HDR. The solution is made up of servers XT-VIA and repetition and highlights systems LSM-VIA.

Signiant y Telestream

significator He also makes an appearance in the coverage of the Olympic Games. OO. Beijing Winter Games 2022. With the help of Signiant software, NBC Sports has moved petabytes de material HDR y 4K from Beijing to its headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, immediately after its capture. Signiant's patented acceleration technology allows streams to be transferred over standard IP networks, eliminating latency and packet loss, so NBC Sports editors in Stamford have been able to create highlights “almost immediately” while the action was unfolding. The software also allows content to be transferred to the Beijing International Broadcast Center.

Finally, NBC Sports has used a wide selection of products and services from Telestream. Among them are the media processing platform Lightspeed Live Capture y Vantage, who have offered a mixed HDR/SDR conversion workflow; 4K/8K HDR wave monitors; and a subtitle authoring and editing solution along with the service Timed Text Speech of Telestream Cloud. Additionally, NBC Sports' Advanced Technology group worked with Telestream to develop LUTs (Look Up Tables) of personalized color so that these could be used with Vantage.

Leader y TAG

NBC Sports will also use dozens of hybrid waveform monitors of Leader, along with rack-mount hybrid rasterizers, for quality control (QC) at the NBC Sports International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Connecticut, and at facilities during the Winter Games. Capable of all the latest signal types, including 4K/UHDTV and HDR, through both SDI and IP-based workflows, Leader has enabled NBC Sports to perform comprehensive measurement and quality control across the full range of audio and video signals.

Finally, NBC Sports has confirmed that it is using the solution monitoring and multivision software based MCM MultiChannel of TAG for complete end-to-end monitoring of your video network, providing ultra-low latency of ST 2110 and uncompressed JPEG-XS signals in Beijing for live production, transport monitoring and polling between the host country and the United States, and broadcast monitoring via the Peacock OTT platform and CDNs. TAG, among other benefits, allows NBC Sports to display signals in real time across the network, including UHD signals that ensure high-quality consumer experience.