RTS Midlands Centre and the IET invite you to attend the next event in the ‘Talking Television Technology' series: Televising and Broadcasting the Commonwealth Games in UHD utilising IP and DTT Technology.

Television isn't about the cameras you use at one end and the TV set at the other, it is about the whole broadcast chain. That chain is being stretched by 4K video just as the world is moving to transmission over the internet. This event is about the problems that have been overcome, the constraints we still work in and the challenges ahead – plus why all this is necessary and why all this is so worth our effort.

Read on for more details but get your space booked right now: the event is free but you have to book. Talking Television Technology is on Thursday 4th December 2014 at at The IET, Kingston Theatre, Austin Court, 80 Cambridge St, Birmingham, B1 2NP Start time 6.30pm for 7pm.

Details and speakers

International sporting events have often been the testing ground for significant new television technology and the 2014 Commonwealth Games was a very good example of this. In a successful trial by BBC R&D, live pictures from multiple 4K cameras were relayed, vision mixed and broadcast via broadband and DTT.

John Zubrzycki, a Principal Research Engineer, will provide an overview of BBC R&D's activities at the Commonwealth Games and this will be followed by a presentation on the UHD field trial.

John Fletcher, Lead Research Engineer, Automated Production and Media Management Section, will report on a research trial of live Ultra High Definition production at the Commonwealth Games using up to four 4K cameras and a software-based live production gallery. The application of broadband network technologies based on the Internet Protocol to programme production offers a range of potential advantages such as reduced costs, due to the economies of scale of using systems developed for computer data transportation, to only needing one network for all types of video, audio and data traffic used to make a TV programme.

However, one of the major challenges is to be able to make live multi-camera TV programmes using IP. The practical experiences gained will be used to further the development of IP production and feed into standardisation.

Following the presentations John Zubrzycki will chair a Q & A session

This event will take place on Thursday 4th December 2014 at The IET, Kingston Theatre, Austin Court, 80 Cambridge St, Birmingham, B1 2NP Start time 6.30pm for 7pm Please note there is no charge for you to attend this event, but booking is essential. 

Booking Instructions

To book your place please email RTS Midlands Centre Administrator, Jayne Greene at jayne@ijmmedia.co.uk.