2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

Just on the point about Robbie Williams middle finger at the opening ceremony. That was shown unedited from RTÉ2 in Ireland.

I will also give you an update on the World Cup presentation from RTÉ today.

Peter Collins had presented his first 2 matches of this World Cup today.

Analysts in studio for those matches were Didi Hamann, Kieth Andrews & Shay Given.

Darragh Maloney is presenting the other two matches today.

On duty for Analysis of Peru v Denmark & Croatia v Nigeria are Damien Duff, Richard Dunne & Eamon Dunphy.

RTÉ are using their own sports studio in Dublin for all the matches in this tournament. They colour the studio with red & blue lighting with decals placed along the walls and on the main desk. The big screens in the studio show slides and images from the official FIFA graphics and titles.



On a smaller desk, which is used for the morning and afternoon matches, they have the FIFA World Cup logo placed underneath it against a white background. How RTÉ present these matches on the smaller desk; one presenter presents the matches on the right hand side of it. The three analysts are than seated on the opposite side of the presenter.

Here is an image to show you what it looks like.

http://c2.thejournal.ie/media/2018/06/rte-101-752x501.png

Normally in that small part of the studio; the presenter is left to right rather than right to left.

The only difference in RTÉ's World Cup coverage so far is that they have not used their large touch screen in the middle of the studio.

Hej from Sweden. Matches being shared between SVT1 and TV4 by the looks of it. Nice studio pres on SVT earlier. Both broadcasters taking the full FIFA gfx, although the scorebar is using Swedish names for countries (ISL for Iceland, DAN for Denmark) while the bottom 3rds are in English.

The lower thirds are on the world feed - not sure if there's a non-Roman version available.

Could the large UHD delay affect online bet in play action?

Follow up: all of TV4's studio pres and graphics are using their own in house C-More style, Viasat style. Studio could pass for a BBC News studio.

Not the encoding and decoding that’s the biggest problem - it’s the size of the chunks of data and the buffering required to give the smoothest experience.

Side windows on itv are back to the computer graphics again from the change earlier.

The huge delay with the UHD feed is obviously the reason it hasn’t been trialled at something like Eurovision where there’s a time specific voting window.

One final wrinkle from Sweden: TV4 cross promoted which games featuring Sweden would be shown on SVT1, and also the CMORE streaming service.

But you could already watch Eurovision ‘live’ on iPlayer with a similar delay so that’s not really an issue.

Is the delay on BT UHD matches as large as the World Cup one?

I suspect it's less as BT TV UHD is multicast and not coming over the 'internet', so won't need as much buffering as iPlayer, which is unicast and coming over the public internet.

BT TV can use a regular MPEG2 transport stream delivered via IP (not internet...), iPlayer is using MPEG-DASH which may wait to encode chunks.

Also I suspect the backhauls are different for BBC HD and UHD and the UHD backhaul is more delayed, whereas BT TV will take the UHD feed and downconvert to HD possibly, so that differential will go on BT.