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The early days of that connectivity solution have evolved into a comprehensive ecosystem that processes more than 100 video feeds and more than 250 audio channels every race weekend. The scale is staggering: F1’ s broadcast reaches a cumulative audience of 2.06 billion with an average of 86 million viewers per race, spread around the world according to Nielsen data.
The transformation accelerated as both companies recognised the seismic shifts occurring in media consumption.“ Netflix was still doing DVDs – that was the major portion of their business,” Dhaval recalls.“ They started something on the side, almost a skunkworks project, to watch movies and TV shows on a computer, and they were charging five dollars a month for that.”
The technical marvel of remote production The technical challenges of broadcasting Formula One from remote locations are immense.“ In the case of Formula One, the event might be in Australia, and your team is in London. So it’ s not as if you will send somebody today if there is a problem – by tomorrow morning is just not an option,” Dhaval explains.
The solution required revolutionary thinking across three critical areas. First, the engineering problem:“ You have to have technologies that are leveraged to deliver low latency solutions... Without newer technologies, you are not going to be in a position to do this within the 300 milliseconds that you need.
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