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FUTURE FOOTBALL high-end technology,” says Rob. “It stands out especially when in full tilt tracking fast movement whether it’s a couple of footballers or a On the bleeding edge of technology in sports broadcasting is the Agito robot capture. Mix it with Samsung’s portable SSD T5 range and you have a perfect tech partnership
ike WALL-E’s quicker, more intelligent and agile cousin, the Motion Impossible Agito radio controlled, fully stabilised camera vehicle races parallel to the touchline with duelling footballers in its ultra-high resolution sight. Here is the glimpse into the future of broadcast capture that we all know is coming – and it’s ably abetted by Samsung’s Portable SSD drive. The occasion is a German football proof of concept event on behalf of the German Bundesliga. It’s a real life proving ground to show what is possible in this new era of live sports television: a 37 camera shoot, across two days and three matches. This hugely competitive ‘show and tell’ is great for Motion Impossible boss Rob Drewett as the Agito stands out. “The Agito has a personality to it as well as supremely
different companies demonstrating their latest technologies in a very real world situation and there was no way to monitor how their technology was coming over from the audience point of view. Rob was lucky enough to have the Samsung Portable SSD T5 1TB drive with him and permission to access the outside broadcasting truck on site at the event. With this access he was allowed to record the Agito’s amazing capture tricks to his Samsung Portable SSD drive. With his laptop in tow Rob was then able to play the footage straight off the drive to the commissioners at the event. The Portable SSD drive offers transfer speeds of around 540MB/s, which, says Rob, “is astonishing from such a small device and also you don’t need power which is massively helpful when you are recording in
running cheetah. Also we were the only camera that was allowed on the pitch.” As a technologist as well as a BAFTA award-winning cameraman Rob could see exactly how the Samsung Portable SSD T5 drive could help him. Live sports TV is all about fast reaction time, not only from the participants but from the production staff too. As we have heard from the converts to the Samsung Portable T5 SSD range in this series of articles, it is the speed and the size of these devices that endears them. This event was presented as a live broadcast even down to the fact that there was no recording of it. So here were all these
IMAGES Goal! The Motion Impossible Agito and Samsung Portable SSD make for a successful partnership.
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