02-01-2024, 12:05 PM
(01-01-2024, 05:30 PM)RhysJR Wrote: After 60 minutes of horrendous rain and more mud than grass on the pitch in the live URC rugby from Bridgend on BBC One Wales, the picture is starting to break up quite frequently now. I'e vgot to be honest, the really terrible conditions are making this a fun watch from a sporting and broadcasting perspective.That is a major factor. A lot of sports stadiums have permanent fibre connections so don't have to rely on satellite. You'll never get a Premier League match rained off for example as there's no satellite involved, it's all on dedicated fibre. I know all Premier League and Championship grounds have fibre, I'm not sure how far down the leagues it goes but it is a requirement for the higher leagues
Not sure how much of a factor it is that this ground doesn't routinely host televised sport, with the match moved from Swansea.com Stadium to Bridgend's Brewery Field due to a clash with Swansea City.
The other alternative as a backup is to take some sort of IP based solution, either cellular based or on the hosts broadband. Problem with that is the bandwidth probably won't be good enough for sport and you're using cellular potentially fighting against the mobile phones of everyone in the stadium.