• • Peter Lawo passed away
  • Brazil’s Globo: the first trial of MPEG-5 LCEVC
  • Mo-Sys: the LED virtual studio for World Cup broadcast

Peter Lawo passed away

Peter Lawo passed away at the age of 85. In 1970, the committed engineer, entrepreneur and father of Lawo AG laid the foundation for the company’s worldwide reputation with innovative audio products and highest quality standards.

Brazil’s Globo: the first trial of MPEG-5 LCEVC

Brazilian Globo has launched what’s described as the world’s first broadcast of a MPEG-5 LCEVC-enhanced channel during the FIFA World Cup. It specifies an enhancement layer which can boost the compression efficiency of any existing or future video codec, enabling higher quality at up to 40 per cent lower bitrates

Mo-Sys: the LED virtual studio for World Cup broadcast

Mo-Sys Engineering delivered a major LED Virtual Production studio for PLAZAMEDIA ahead of its World Cup broadcast. The studio in Germany uses 4 cameras, each of which has a Mo-Sys StarTracker to generate the 6-axis camera and lens tracking data that drives the perspective view of the virtual set. The tracked cameras work in conjunction with Mo-Sys’ combined LED content server and on-air graphics system bMR, which delivers the virtual set content from the graphics engine

Hosts Philip Grossman, Mary Ann Seidler, Maria Kholodova.

The live broadcast took place on 13th of December, 2022. Production — TKT1957 LLC, Georgia.