ChyronHego's TRACAB team in Sweden has achieved another important milestone in its latest developments towards a semi-automated offside technology, based upon the Emmy® Award-winning TRACAB Gen5 optical tracking system. At a June 22 video conference hosted by ChyronHego and attended by FIFA and its Working Group for Innovation Excellence, the TRACAB team presented a demonstration of powerful new capabilities in TRACAB OCT (Offside Calling Technology) (Story on FIFA Website). Exploiting its AI-driven ball tracking for automated ball pass detection, combined with limb tracking and skeletal modeling derived from video feeds, the technology is showing great promise to support referees in the future to make fast and highly accurate offside calling decisions.

ChyronHego today announced that its Virtual Football system has been certified as a virtual offside line technology by FIFA®, the world governing body for football. A powerful yet easy-to-use system for inserting virtual graphics onto the field, Virtual Football addresses the stringent performance requirements essential to the accurate placement of offside lines as part of the video assistant referee (VAR) workflow in football matches. Referees can rely on the technology to accurately place an offside line and help them make decisions more easily. Broadcasters and stadium entertainment teams can use it to give fans a better understanding of how and why officials make crucial decisions throughout the game.

"ChyronHego has been at the forefront of this technology for over a decade and has made several exciting enhancements to Virtual Football specifically for offside line placement within the VAR workflow," said Niall Hendry, product manager, sports, at ChyronHego. "We have optimized calibration speed and workflow, as well as field and lens parameters, and we've also enabled selection from multiple angles to improve accuracy and streamline the user workflow."

MediaKind, a global media technology leader, has been selected by Síminn, the Icelandic broadcaster, to protect and deliver its live high definition (HD) and ultra-high definition (UHD) broadcasts of football matches from the English Premier League to fans across Iceland.

Argosy, leading international supplier of critical infrastructure products for the broadcast, media and AV industries, has teamed with broadcast engineering and sports stadia facility specialists, TTL Video, to bring the infrastructure of newly promoted clubs into the UK’s top football division this coming season, in line with the very latest broadcast requirements.

ATEME, the emerging leader in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, worked with Eurovision Services, the first choice media services provider for media organisations and sport federations around the world, on a proof of concept to trial an innovative watermarking solution in June 2019 during a major international football event in Paris, France.

Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has commissioned a 4th series of its popular short-form, multi-episode and topical documentary-style series, Power &…, which portrays ordinary people with extraordinary lives.

Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, has announced the commission of a supercharged new show, starring Alex Hirschi, aka Supercar Blondie. A globe trotting influencer who specialises in driving, reviewing and getting viewers excited about the rarest and most unique cars on the planet, Supercar Blondie has over 500K subscribers on YouTube, 2.2 million followers on Instagram and over one billion views on Facebook, placing her in the upper brackets of influencer reach.

Insight TV, the world’s leading 4K UHD broadcaster and producer of native UHD content, is partnering with VICE Studios to create two, new unique series following street football and e-sports. These new series are being developed and produced by VICE Studios in Benelux, and will be broadcast globally on Insight TV.

The Quicklink Studio Solution has been chosen by another professional football club that plays in the top tier of English football. The Studio solution is used by sending out a guest invite via SMS or email to a desktop or mobile device of a contributor in order to connect a high-quality audio/video interview link with the studio.