Interesting Lesson In Live Event Coverage

[SatelliteAV]

Many months ago we had a great discussion about new technology and if satellite truck usage still made sense.

Interesting story that wont be printed in a Live U product brochure...

Court Cases - TVNewser

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Hahah that is good stuff.

Its like covering CES in Las Vegas!

 

[LER]

Interesting read. The comments are also interesting.

 

[DJ Rob]

I've seen LiveU in person. It seems to only do HD quality if there's minimal camera panning and it gets a cell tower that has plenty of bandwidth - which is rare here. There can also be a big time delay in the feed it sends (up to 10 seconds from what I saw). I was helping a friend of mine across from the Aurora mall this weekend with some tech stuff related to all of the media there. It was interesting to see all of the sat trucks there and what they were using. Many had teleprompters fed from the main studios of their respective networks via satellite.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I looked at renting one of those last year for CES. They wanted $6000 for a week.

The buy one it was $36,000.00 (OUCH!)

 

[gabshere]

you would think since its supports 3g/4g LTE, wifi , wimax & ethernet should have been little problem to broadcast from courtroom

The LU70 bonds up to 14 3G/4G LTE, WiMAX and Wi-Fi modems simultaneously, supporting the growing range of cellular network bands worldwide.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah they would since all the reporters were sitting outside on their phones.

 

[KE4EST]

Very interesting.

 

[Panavision]

We use this at my station for some live shots. Sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't. The delay makes talk-backs not possible.

 

[Bob2011]

I wish my local stations would stop using this technology as the picture looks like crap. The microwave truck link is almost always perfect but now they send out reporters to storm chase in a SUV with something like this product. I have never seen a perfect picture or audio in my area using cellular/internet.

 

[rv1pop]

If they want a pay by the minute Telephone / TV link, why don't they go with the satellite phone like was used for Desert Freedom? A whole lot cheaper than an uplink truck and Boeing still has bandwidth for sale...

 

[skysurfer]

an engineer should have explained things to the judge. A camera with a single cable going out the door and routed to a pool feed distribution site at the curb is much better than letting 30 cameras into the courtroom with all their cables. I don't know what was so ticky-tack to the judge that there had to be no cables leaving the courtroom.