I’ve written an article for the BBC Academy looking at the dramatic changes we’re experience in broadcast technology. Check it out here: BBC Academy – Technology – Out with the old, in with the new.
Tag Archives: BBC
October
11
To the Spoils Goes the Victor (now, the hard work begins)
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
In my last post, I only half-jokingly asked, “What do you do when you’ve won the revolution?” The answer to that is, “get working.” A revolution overturns the old order. Most revolutions fail because they’ve only focussed on the negative, with the only goal being the elimination of that negative. Once that’s accomplished, for most […]
October
10
The Future is Yesterday
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
This autumn, BBC Scotland, passed the fifth anniversary of the opening of our new facility at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. When we opened our doors, we were the most advanced broadcasting facility in Europe, and arguably the world. We had a full HD infrastructure, production was mostly file-based, and with the exception of live video, all our media […]
August
07
The Future of Event Broadcasts
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
One of the greatest challenges in any event broadcast is coverage. Apart from the standard budgetary and staffing constraints, productions have to deal with available camera positions that are often less than ideal, as well as having to second guess coverage needed for more dynamic events such as festivals, non-traditional sports, and wide-ranging events such […]
July
30
Beyond HD – Super Hi Vision, a new approach to live events
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
On Friday, I had the privilege of watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics in the BBC’s Pacific Quay Studio B over the first ever live transmission of an event using Super Hi Vision, the high resolution broadcast technology created by NHK, the national broadcaster of Japan. Super Hi Vision is the first entry in […]
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