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The Commonwealth Games gave the 主播大秀鈥檚 Research & Development team a chance to try out Ultra High Definition TV and showcase some of their other projects. Just in case you missed them, there were posts on the and pictures on their, including:

by聽Martin Nicholson

"Instead of sending large teams and vast quantities of kit to event locations, what if broadcasters used IP cameras?"

by Phil Layton

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by Brendan Crowther

鈥淰irtual Reality鈥檚 Back!鈥� says Brendan in a post that includes information about Venue Explorer, Augmented Video Player and 360 degree video.

by Tim Harrod

Michael Sparks of R&D added a personal take: :

"...we're not working with traditional broadcast kit - kit that's designed from the ground up with realtime constraints in mind and broadcast networks with realtime constraints in mind and systems with tight signalling for synchronisation. We're doing this with commodity computing kit over IP networks - albeit with ISP/carrier grade networking kit. The 4K cameras we use are connected to high end capture cards, and then the data is encoded using software encoders into something tractable (1.2Gbit/s data rate) to send around the network - to get the data into the IP world as quickly as possible."

主播大秀 Click talked to 主播大秀 R&D about the experiments:

The 主播大秀 Academy website featured another 主播大秀 R&D project:

鈥溨鞑ゴ笮� R&D decided to develop these automatic meta-data extraction technologies in a way that would allow large-scale audio processing.鈥�

主播大秀 R&D are also running a

鈥淲e have created a survey which is open for anyone with internet access to complete, which asks questions about screen sizes and viewing distances, as well as the individual viewer's personal preferences.鈥�

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Nick Reynolds is Assistant Editor, Central Editorial Team, 主播大秀 Online