IBC2021 chose to present a special award to NBCUniversal for its technical work around bringing the Tokyo Olympic Games to its audience and offering them the chance to enjoy live action in Ultra HD: 4k resolution, high dynamic range colour and Dolby Atmos sound. Three other projects were finalists in this category: Netflix for creating the first-ever hand-drawn anime with experimental 4k and HDR Songbird, which was the first American feature film to return to production during the covid lockdown using camera to cloud technology and Timeline Television for its remote broadcast app Stream Anywhere which helped major UK broadcasters’ production teams film remotely from a range of locations.
I want to thank TV Skyline and Riedel and all our supporting partners, video, lighting and sound directors and the forty piece crew around Europe and the US who made this happen.”
“Our team connected camera operators, lighting designers, video directors and sound engineers scattered across the globe, proving once and for all that it is possible to control an entire music event production remotely. “Remote Recording Network and Riedel Communications are happy to have received an IBC Innovation Award for our joint project Around the World in 80 milliseconds.” said Peter Brandt, CEO, Remote Recording Network. Remote Recording Network with technology partners led by Riedel Communications won the IBC Innovation Award for Content Creation for producing the first fully decentralised production of a live, global music event. Thank you, IBC, for supporting innovation in our industry and for recognising us with this award.” said Scott Adametz, Director, Infrastructure Engineering at Riot Games.Īn additional four projects were shortlisted in this category, including: Boeing for live-streaming the Starliner’s return from orbit in HD broadcast quality, with sub-one second latency from a remote desert location for NASA TV BT Sport for delivering fully remote coverage of the 2021 UEFA Europa League Final from Poland in 4k HDR and Dolby Atmos sound MGM Studios for launching a new blockchain-backed platform with Eluvio that provides a more efficient, secure and cost-effective way to deliver content to its distributors from a library of more than 20,000 film and television titles and Migo for creating an entirely new way to deliver digital content in countries that lack a widespread broadband infrastructure. To our team of talented engineers at Riot and our tech partners, I couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished.
This was an incredibly challenging year to deliver a world-class production, let alone trial a new and never tested before technology. On behalf of everyone at Riot Games, we would like to say thank you first to our fans around the world for supporting us at our events. Riot Games won the IBC2021 Innovation Award for Content Distribution for being the first organisation in the world to use JPEG XS compression for two major trans-Atlantic esports tournaments. Thank you to them, and thank you to IBC for this award.”įour other projects were shortlisted in this category: DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga for enhancing the Bundesliga world feed with an interactive service In The Room used AI and exclusive Ultra HD content for consumers to interact “face-to-face” with personalities like Nile Rodgers Mediapro was shortlisted for the rapid growth of Ubeat, its esports and entertainment multiplatform and Sky Sports and SimplyLive for their remote production partnership, which created and delivered a true cloud-based, multicamera production environment which also has a positive environmental impact. “I must also call out our community of fantastic partners Second Spectrum, Sceenic, Visualise, Tiled Media, Deltatre, Moov and Opta. We’re so proud of our innovations around the app, such as our matchday experience features,” said Jamie Hindhaugh, COO of BT Sport. “I am delighted BT Sport’s app won an IBC award. BT Sport won the Innovation Award for Content Everywhere for developing new technologies for the BT Sport App to recreate the matchday experience for live sports fans watching their favourite teams at home.