Sky Sports chooses Thomson platform for F1
May 13, 2015
Thomson Video Networks has revealed that its ViBE CP6000 contribution platform has been chosen by Sky Sports for its exclusive UK coverage of the 2015 Formula 1 racing season.
“As one of the world’s largest and most prestigious sporting events, F1 is also one of the biggest projects in the Sky Sports broadcast calendar. From March through November, our mobile teams will need to contribute eight simultaneous high-quality live feeds from 20 Grand Prix races around the world,” said Gordon Roxburgh, technical manager at Sky Sports. “The ViBE CP6000 from Thomson Video Networks offers the ideal encoding/decoding solution with its dense 1-RU form factor, which fits easily in a flight case; its support for standards-based, high-profile picture formats; and its ease of use.”
Sky Sports will provide live coverage at all 20 Grand Prix weekends for the entire seven-month schedule on its dedicated Sky Sports F1 channel. At each race circuit, a single ViBE CP6000 encoder will provide multiple contribution links back to the Sky Sports master control facility in London, where another ViBE CP6000 will decode those various feeds for delivery to air.