Monthly Archives: March 2008
3D HD Mavericks game offers industry first: 3D HD MPEG4 distribution via satellite
Written on March 28, 2008 at 9:49 am, by SVG Staff
By Ken Kerschbaumer When FSN Southwest, the Dallas Mavericks, Pace 3D and the NBA worked together earlier this week for a digital cinema viewing of Tuesday’s game in 3D HD […] More
FSN Midwest broadcasts Cardinals opener in HD
Written on March 28, 2008 at 9:11 am, by SVG Staff
FSN Midwest’s regular-season coverage of St. Louis Cardinals baseball starts opening day, March 31, with the live High Definition (HD) telecast of the Cardinals season opener against the Colorado Rockies […] More
Daktronics scoreboards light up MLB in Arizona and KC
Written on March 28, 2008 at 9:06 am, by SVG Staff
By Andrew Lippe Arizona Diamondbacks and Kansas City Royals fans spring fever will be complemented this season by Daktronics HD scoreboards in their ballparks. Chase Field, home to MLB’s Diamondbacks, […] More
IOC asks China for guarantee of live Olympic transmission
Written on March 28, 2008 at 9:01 am, by SVG Staff
The Financial Times reports that the International Olympic Committee has asked China to promise not to delay transmissions of the Beijing games, after France raised concerns about Chinese television’s censoring […] More
ESPN News HD: More Screen, More Resolution, More Graphics, More Stats For Viewers
Written on March 28, 2008 at 8:58 am, by SVG Staff
By Ken Kerschbaumer While the biggest change internally at ESPN News HD will be the move to tapeless workflows (for more info see ESPN News HD Goes Tapeless story) the […] More
Mitsubishi, Sony bring HD to Nationals Park
Written on March 27, 2008 at 4:56 pm, by SVG Staff
By Andrew Lippe While New York Mets and Yankees fans await state-of-the-art stadiums, Washington Nationals fans just have to wait until Sunday. Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN will give MLB […] More
Fox Regional Nets embrace X-mo for MLB; Mobile TV Group fills HD gap
Written on March 27, 2008 at 4:28 pm, by SVG Staff
By Ken Kerschbaumer Regional Fox Sports Networks (FSN) across the country will be offering viewers more chances to catch their favorite MLB team in HD. For starters Mobile TV Group […] More
TSA Madrid Delivers Content to European Viewers via Genesis Networks Fiber
Written on March 27, 2008 at 2:03 pm, by SVG Staff
Genesis Networks fiber infrastructure has been chosen by Telef nica Sistemas Audiovisuales Madrid (TSA Madrid) to transmit a package of programming via the SKY Italia satellite platform to TSA viewers […] More
Digital Rapids to Provide encoding and streaming solutions to NBC for Beijing Olympics
Written on March 27, 2008 at 1:56 pm, by SVG Staff
Digital Rapids has been selected to provide media encoding, transcoding and streaming systems to NBC for the network’s Internet coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China, August 8-24. […] More
ESPN News HD goes tapeless
Written on March 27, 2008 at 1:22 pm, by SVG Staff
By Ken Kerschbaumer This Sunday morning ESPN flips the switch on ESPN News HD, integrating what had been a Digital Betacam tape-based network into the massive ESPN Digital Center architecture […] More