July 5, 2005
From mobile phone right to the TV
A Spanish press group has experimented on the Radio Televisió Valenciana (RTVV) TV sets a live broadcasting from a mobile phone.
They used a 3G handset with video camera to capture the sound and the images, then they sent them -through different canals- to a server that converted them in an SDI format. The director took the images he wanted to use and that was it!
The phones need the software developed by Motorola for its E1000 and V975 models, and only the 3G News Mobile Studio, created by Createcna, can recognise and convert the mobile signal into data that the editing table can use.
RTVV won't substitute traditional shooting crews by mobile phone reporters but starting this month, many images displayed in a small window during the presentation of the news will be realised with the new system.
A series of problems still have to be solved, like the quality of the image, the impossibility to zoom and the limits of the 3G networks which cover only Spanish cities counting more than 200.000 inhabitants.
(via El Mundo)
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