If you'll recall, we took an
in-depth look at exactly what it took to deliver Super Bowl XL to the masses, and just days after
Super Bowl XLII concluded, we're now finding out what hardware is to thank for bringing Super Bowl XLII to (
most of) us in glorious high-definition. Reportedly, the bulk of the praise should be directed to mobile production company Game Creek, which brought six HD production trucks and 25 HD cameras to Glendale for the big game. Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Also on location was an HD vehicle from NEP Supershooters that featured a Sony BVP900 and
950 HD cameras alongside a plethora of switching equipment and audio consoles. Needless to say, there was more kit at this single game than can be covered here, so go on and hit the read link below to get a better understanding of just how massive the production process really is.
posted Feb 10th 2008 8:02PM
No wonder why the superbowl in hd looked like crap, it was shot with sony equipment go figure...
sony products are garbage, should have had it on nbc or abc at least their hd looks hd unlike fox's...
they were using sony equipment, haha that just goes to show how shitty sony really is, they can't even provide good hd showing...
SIMPLY PATHETIC!!!
ABC has good HD?
Maybe you can explain why drag racing looks so bad on ESPN HD.
You must be smoking some strong crack. Take a look at tv history and you'd see how Sony has played the biggest role in delivering it. From the cameras, to the tape, to the equipment. Sony, and BetaCam, have been at the top of tv broadcasting for the longest time. Get a clue.
Some people's hatred for a company can get pretty ridiculous. I can tell you have no clue what you're talking about. Have a great day buddy.
Wow. You really know nothing about the broadcast industry.
Sony probably has at least a 65% market share (especially camera-wise) in TV today. most of the TV you watch is shot with Sony cameras, and processed through Sony equipment.
It's not their gear that makes it look like garbage if it looks bad - it's the people that are using it for that particular show, and / or the broadcaster who is doing something bad to the signal. I work in the industry, and I can tell you that the best gear in the hands of morons looks like garbage. And the opposite can also be true - mediocre gear in the hands of experts can look great.
The only footage of the superbowl this year that I though didn't look very good/match was the slow-mo stuff, and that's because they were using special cameras and didn't take the time to correct them to match their live action cameras very well (I belive they used the Phantom - a non-Sony product).
Would you like to show your ignorance further?
Can you spell t-r-o-l-l ?
;)
I don't understand where this hate is coming from, its just a company. By the way CBS also uses Sony cam's.
The Super Bowl looked fine in HD with me, however today the Pro Bowl looked like craptastic stretch-o-vision.
Guys, it doesn't matter what equipment is used. The problem is that FOX still braodcasts games in 720p. CBS however, broadcasts their games in 1080i. That's why CBS looks so much better when watching football.
Sony equipment is the BEST period. Anyone in the TV business will tell you that no matter what station they work for. But if the stations don't up it from 720p, you won't see the difference.
Don't forget about compression. Here's an excerpt from a PC World article written a few years back which will explain it better than I can.
"The FCC allots each TV station sufficient airwave spectrum to broadcast a little over 19 megabits per second of data...
The ATSC standard includes support for MPEG2 video encoding, but it says nothing about compression levels. Broadcasting an uncompressed MPEG2 video would require 885 mbps (for 720p content) or 995 mbps (for 1080i content). A station that broadcasts a single HD program can devote only 18 mbps to it, HDTV consultant Peter Putman says; and to get that, broadcasters have to use a compression ratio of 49:1 for 720p and 55:1 for 1080i."
Visit http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122629-page,3-c,hdtv/article.html for the rest of the article.
Also consider the fast action sequences of a football game combined with the detail of the grass or the confetti at the end of the game which can lead to a lot of compression artifacting.
well you guys tell me when sony makes their own product without someone else making it and then slapping their name on it... hell even the ps3 isnt theirs they had no part in it, they just grouped a whole bunch of parts from different manufacturers and twalla u got an overpriced POS, sony doesnt even make their tv's samsung produces the screens for them, sony does the software and toshiba and mitsu and some other small company do the innards... so i mean come on, even if sony does offer the best equipment for broadcasting, do they even make it themselves my bet is no...
but who ever made the cameras for superbowl needs to be fired, the commercials looked good in hd but the game looked like crap
What you don't understand sir, is that most of the commercials you saw were shot on FILM. Film still kicks the living snot out of alot of HD video, regardless of manufacturer.
Second. For professional cameras, Sony makes the innards. They make the CCDs & they make the processing circuitry. They make the recorder, the recorder's parts, and the tape. In fact, Sony is one of the biggest imaging chip makers in the world (most nikon imaging devices are made by Sony).
I'm no big Sony fan - they have their issues, but so does Panasonic, Thomson, Canon, or anybody else. For pro stuff, other companies buy parts from them. The Genesis camera - possibly the best HD camera available right now - was made for Panavision by Sony. The Sony HDW-F900 - the workhorse of the HD industry, is made by Sony, with Sony parts.
Then again, maybe I should just forget everything I know, since someone who works at gamestop obviously has much more knowledge and experience than someone who has worked professionally in the tv and feature film business for 15 years.
That's called the electronics industry.
You just keep digging yourself deeper and deeper into the "moron and ignorant fool" pool. Open up any electronic gear, iPod, cell phone, camera, gaming console ... whatever you want, and write down the name of the many parts with their company's name on them, and you'd see how surprised you'd be. And it's not electronics, it's in everything, from your toaster to the car you drive. It's a common practice. Come on. Don't be ridiculous.
"Then again, maybe I should just forget everything I know, since someone who works at gamestop obviously has much more knowledge and experience than someone who has worked professionally in the tv and feature film business for 15 years."
Jonathon Burdine, you just got served.
Anyone else think the cablecam shots looked really soft?
I love reading the posts. No matter what the statement is, there's always a verbal fight between you guys...lolol
its not the recording equiptment that is the problem, its the lack of available bandiwdth to deliver the content with TRUE HD & vivid detail. also FOX is a horrible station for HD. in albany, new york CBS, CW, NBC, ABC and even PBS have all gone to HD 1080i and FOX is still 480i. pathetic. and they probably have the most money to spend on HD out of all those companies. being owned by DirecTv and NewsCorp & MySpace. Rupert Murdoch isn't poor. thats for sure.