In China, journalists and tv channels will have the services of the Press Center and the International Broadcasting Center and Media Village, located in the near the 14 competition centers of the Park Beijing Olympic.
The first, will offer facilities and state-of-the-art equipment communication technology for HDTV signals, ISDN lines and wireless broadband terminals that will benefit all 17 a thousand accredited journalists.
The second, will receive the latest technology equipment in telecommunications and provide backup facilities and seamless transmission system for the coverage of the games.
For its part, Panasonic official sponsor of the contest since 1988 announced that this will be the first once in history that games will be recorded and broadcast in HD with audio and video (AV) technology.
This will be possible thanks to the selection of the DVCPRO (Digital) Video Cassette) as official video format for recording the Olympic Games in high definition. Panasonic also will provide DVCPRO video cameras as well as memory cards DVCPRO P2, a video recording media you don't need capture of the tape to the computer when editing and what is resistant to vibration, temperatures and wear
In this way, all the international videos that are distribute from the International Broadcasting Centre (IBC) to broadcasters around the world that own the rights, produce and distribute in the high definition format 1080/50i.
Inside the Olympic Village will be located screens of Astrovision long-format video, professional audio systems RAMSA developed to operate in extreme conditions and minimize sound loss, DLP projectors and other audio and video equipment on which the live audience you will be able to observe even the smallest detail of everything that it happens in every competition.
Likewise, Panasonic will provide 100 camcorders, 250 recorders and 1500 monitors for gaming.
