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30-09-2010, 10:44
* Sky Sports has embarked upon an ambitious technology upgrade 30/09/2010 Much lauded for the quality standards and innovation that has set for televised sport, Sky Sports has embarked upon an ambitious technology upgrade to bring about not only operational improvements in day-to-day sports highlights coverage, but also in terms of output abilities on TV and new media platforms. The upgrade project at the new Harlequin 1 HD production facilities covers all ingest, production and play out workflows, including highlights editing and online storage infrastructures. The new Sky Sports HD production infrastructure will be relying on EVS Instant Tapeless Technology to power live and near-live HD studios, as well as its interactive and highlights production suites. The four production studios at Harlequin 1 will be using four HD video broadcast servers and four HD studio servers, all controllable by eight director suites, including editing modules, for content management, browsing, clip creation and fast turnaround editing. The new technology will also be used for new media production and delivery, with workflow relying on ten servers operated for ingest and play out, and controlled by the content management system. Recorded media, clips and edits will be shared in a central near-line storage system, which provides 20 Tbytes storage capacity, including proxy media. A total of eighteen edit stations will be used for the creation of highlights packages (including graphics) with direct access to the central storage platform. Once finalized, EDL