"The Beijing Olympics Are 100% HD Ready Alfacam Signs Major HDTV Facilities Contract for Beijing 2008 Olympics Alfacam, the Belgium-based TV facilities provider, was awarded a very large contract by the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co. Ltd (BOB) to provide 18 HDTV OB structures for the TV coverage of a major part of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Alfacam will record the opening ceremony, many of the most popular sports and the closing ceremony. This contract is the largest TV facilities contract ever for a one-time event. The Beijing Games will be the first Olympics to be covered entirely in HDTV. At Athens 2004 about half of the TV images were recorded in HDTV. At the Turin Winter Olympics, which will be held in February 2006, about two thirds of the images will be captured in high definition. In 2008, Alfacam will provide 18 HDTV structures and more than 200 HD cameras to cover the opening and closing ceremonies as well as most of the major sporting disciplines, such as athletics, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, football, basketball, judo, horse-riding,... This makes Alfacam the largest TV facilities supplier in Beijing, responsible for nearly 90% of the images of the Olympic television coverage world-wide. The opening and closing ceremonies and some sports events will be entirely mixed in surround 5.1. The equipment will be transported to the Chinese capital by ship, train and aircraft. About 100 Alfacam staff members will travel along. Gabriel Fehervari, CEO of Alfacam, commented: " We are extremely proud that Alfacam was chosen to be the corner-stone of Beijing 2008's TV coverage. One of the reasons for the BOB's choice is the fact that Alfacam is the world's largest provider of HDTV capacity."
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