Monday, March 5, 2012

ESPN: An Engineering Exploration.(Brief article)

By Glen Dickson

With its engineering team already busy readying a new high-definition production facility in Los Angeles that will launch next month, cable sports giant ESPN is heading to NAB on less of a shopping mission and in more of an "exploration and wide-eyed" mode, says Chuck Pagano, the network's executive VP of technology.

ESPN's engineering division is sending a smaller team than usual, some five staffers, who will focus on emerging technologies such as 1080-line-progressive production and 3-gig routing. He is also interested in the push for standards for stereoscopic 3D production, which ESPN has experimented with privately.

"The ability …

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