3D Opera: GlobeCast delivers live performance of Don Giovanni to cinemas throughout France

Paris, 29 May 2009 – GlobeCast announced today that on Tuesday evening 2 June, it will be delivering a live 3D HD feed of a performance of Don Giovanni from the Rennes Opera house in Brittany via satellite to cinemas in Paris and elsewhere in France, though its collaboration with Orange Labs.

The goal is to use the latest technology to bring Mozart’s masterpiece simultaneously to several screens across hundreds of miles in the highest possible 3D quality.

This multi-camera operation, organized by Orange Labs and filmed by AMP, involves combining two video signals into one feed with the help of a Sensio 3D Cinema encoder. The GlobeCast SNG vehicle outside the opera house delivers the single feed to destinations throughout France: two cinemas in Paris, including the famous ‘Geode’ sphere, as well as cinemas in Avignon and Brest. At each cinema, a GlobeCast truck downlinks the feed and decodes it for projection, ensuring that the image layers and audio are perfectly synchronized. The audiences, with the help of 3D glasses, can experience the performance live in astounding quality as if they were in the Rennes opera house, hundreds of miles away.

Contact: Vanessa Ching +65 63254222 vanessa.ching {at} globecast(.)com

About GlobeCast

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com): a subsidiary of France Telecom, is a leading global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The company operates a secure global satellite and fiber network to manage and transport 10 million hours of video and other rich media each year. Top-tier broadcasters and content providers of all sizes turn to GlobeCast for ingest, aggregation, transmission and repurposing of content for delivery to direct-to-home satellite platforms; cable, IPTV, mobile and broadband headends, as well as corporate and digital signage networks. GlobeCast’s fleet of SNG trucks deploys globally to support coverage of the biggest news and sporting events each year in SD and HDTV formats. Borders are non-existent when it comes to GlobeCast’s services, thanks to the company’s 11 teleports and technical operations centres as well as its 17 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia.

Vanessa Ching
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