The next big step for F1 TV is 8K broadcasts. Here's a look at the challenges the production team behind it all will face to get there.
But what many don’t realise is that before these images reach us, they have travelled many thousands of miles in a near instant. And this involves quite a bit of technology.
The fact that production now takes place in England has several major advantages. Firstly, 36% fewer people are needed at the track for production purposes. Secondly, they have been able to replace the bulky F1 Broadcast Centre with an Event Technical Centre, which is about half the size. It means 70 tonnes less freight needs to be transported to each race. This is a reduction of 34%, which is a significant contribution to F1's goal of hitting net zero carbon by 2030.
He added: “The level of agility is just remarkable. When you and I watch the sport on a screen, we don’t realise that this is the journey of raw video footage, going from a track somewhere in the world, to a production hub in London where it is getting produced, before it’s being distributed to millions and millions of households globally. But that is the technology complexity that we are a part of.
As Ponda pointed out: “Not all locations are as easy when it comes to the underlying technology and infrastructure. You’ve got locations like Baku, the Middle East, Singapore and so on, so we had to work with individual partners to ensure that the technology that was required at a particular venue, was of the same high quality. We did this by working with regional partners and investing significantly in local venues, to achieve that level of stability and repeatability.
“They are looking at all of the cable systems across the world, all of the media cloud edge computers that are deployed, and ensure that the system is tweaked and ready for the complexity of a particular weekend.”“A very interesting area that we are looking at now is leveraging private LTE networks and 5G based technology, which could provide a unique answer to some of these local challenges,” continued Ponda.
“In the same household, you could have somebody watching the race on a primary screen which is the living room TV, and you could have somebody else watching a different feed on a second screen like an iPad or a mobile. Or the same person trying to track through social media interactions as well.
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