On Feb 16, 2014, at 8:11 PM, John Moore wrote:
> It's been a while since I worked an Olympic telecast and I'm curious what the primary acquisition format is for the 2014 games. Back in my SD Olympic days for CBS and NBC we were PAL at many venue when in a foreign country and the A events like Gymnastics and Track Field would be dual format covered so the NTSC signal would avoid a standards conversion for the US. Watching on my new Panny 60 inch Plasma the signal seems clean OTA and over Direct TV. Anybody know what format the International venue feeds in. I don't see anything like the olden days SD Pal to NTSC conversion artifacts. I know with HD those aren't the correct terms to use but are they shooting 50i and converting to 59.94? It seems too clean for that to me but maybe new conversion options are much cleaner. Anybody in the know on this? Perhaps somebody at the Peacock network has some insight?
I reply:
OBS (Olympic Broadcast Services, the international company that provides technical facilities & oversight for all Olympics) uses 1080i/50 as the originating format. NBC's remote units at the sports venues also originate in 1080i/50. NBC then converts to 1080i/60 at their IBC facility using Snell Alchemist hardware. Yes, it's very good conversion: <http://www.tvtechnology.com/file-based-production/0189/nbc-olympics-to-use-snell-alchemist-standards-converters-in-sochi/223538>
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