
It’s all about the game for The Systems Group – yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s.
From last minute’s instant replay to the grainy footage of the first televised sporting event in 1939, capturing and holding onto the moment is critical. TSG is well versed in the power and flexibility of modern storage systems, taking advantage of features such as file based workflows and the harnessing of metadata. Our design team ensures that incoming content, as well as archival material ingested as digital files, is easily accessed, intuitively organized, and preserved for future viewing generations.
Today’s viewers are looking for broadcasters to not only provide them with nuanced close-ups and viewpoints not possible from the seats but with a constant stream of companion information that brings added value to the sports broadcast. Production and editing teams need to make sure that massive quantities of real-time and archived video, audio, and data files can be quickly turned around by a collaborative workflow into quality content that engages the viewer. TSG has real-world insight into the strengths and limitations of today’s systems. Our teams have faced the challenges of designing and integrating some of the most complex sports broadcasting facilities in the industry and are ready to use that experience to your advantage.
Planning for tomorrow’s game is an integral part of TSG’s systems design and we consider scalability and modularity to be the key to accommodating future growth as well as targeting the use and risks associated with evolving technologies. Broadcasters will be tasked with delivering local content with a global reach while facing challenges such as competition for broadband QoS, polluting of white space, maintenance of reliable IP network infrastructure, astronomically increased storage demands, as well as decisions about how to best utilize emerging technologies such as 3G qualified infrastructure, personal video monitoring, 3D technologies including 3D HD mobile trucks, digital signage and narrowcast networks, digital wireless cameras transmitting HD on license-free spectrum, and IPTV and on-demand internet broadcasting. All this with a watchful eye out for some form of ROI strategy.