Before the World Cup started, Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, said :
“We want to keep football as a game of the people with a human face, so we don’t want technology on the field of play because we want to maintain the spontaneity of football — played, administered and controlled by human beings.”

But numerous mistakes by human referees caused teams of humans to lose crucial games-- and forced Blatter into recanting.

England was denied a goal against Germany when Frank Lampard’s shot hit the crossbar and bounced beyond the goal li Read more...

Magenta Research calls it "a breakthrough" and claims their FiberMax Engine will change the price/performance metric for AV extension, distribution and switching over fibre.

"Given the very high cost of custom optics and the lack of innovation in AV transmission over standard networking optics, both ProAV and Digital Signage industries have been slow to adopt hi-definition digital video and fibre cabling for AV signal distribution," says Bob Michaels, President, Magenta Research, "Magenta's FiberMax Engine changes this …"

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Don't even mention the iPad.

With millions of iPhone devices capable of receiving live streams, iStreamPlanet offers iPhone streaming delivered over the Akamai HD Network for part of your live event strategy.

iStreamPlanet partners with Akamai Technologies and the Akamai HD Network to offer an end-to-end solution that will allow you to add iPhone streaming to any live event between February 15, 2010 and May 31, 2010 at special pricing.

This promotion is valid for live events up to 3 hours in duration. 3rd party satellite acquisition Read more...

UMAN Universal Media Access Networks will demonstrate “the world’s first real-time HD video network” at prolight+sound 2010.

Using zero-latency technology, the system is able to carry up to 64 HD streams (1080p60) within the network with a point-to-point latency of “well below 5 milliseconds”.

UMAN has aimed to provide a backbone solution where all types of media content can be transferred with a guaranteed latency and Quality-of-Service.
Juergen Scheuring, CEO, says: “The convergence provides system integrators an extremely flexible an Read more...