SuperCup 2022: Innovation Scores at the DFL's Demo Day
09/08/2022
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 - 22:00
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FC Bayern M nchen, winners of the DFL Supercup 2022
The fans of RB Leipzig are in fine voice with their songs, chants, drums and roars echoing around the Red Bull Arena as the DFL Supercup 2022 gets underway. It absolutely envelopes the pitch where Die Roten Bullen' are taking on the mighty Bavarians of FC Bayern M nchen for the Supercup 2022.
In a demo suite in one of the skyboxes high above the players, however, the sound is just as immersive, as the match sees the premiere of live Dolby Atmos for Bundesliga matches on Sky Deutschland.
I want to avoid bringing tonnes of technical facilities into the stadium. There are already 25 cameras in the stadium, and the carpark is full of OB vans. If we bring another, the carbon footprint is a nightmare.
It's just one of several innovations on show by the DFL (Deutsche Fu ball Liga), its subsidiaries and partners here at the Supercup in Leipzig.
As it's the very first big game of the season, the Supercup is always a good way for us to showcase the media products we've developed over the last weeks and months, says Steffen Merkel, DFL board member and executive vice president of audiovisual rights. It also gives us the opportunity to showcase [what we're using] over the next weeks and months in the upcoming season.
The big sound abounds
This is the first time that we are producing a Bundesliga game with immersive sound together with our friends and partners from Sky Deutschland, says Merkel. This is a very good example of how we innovate and how closely we collaborate with our broadcast partners.
Sky has launched a consumer device, Sky Glass in the UK, and is launching it in Germany by the end of this year. It is a Smart TV with a built-in Sky subscription, but also a built-in Dolby Atmos module, so Sky Deutschland was in close exchange with us about how we could deploy Dolby Atmos as fast as possible.
Steffen Merkel, member of the DFL management board and EVP audiovisual rights
[DFL Supercup 2022] is the premiere; it is being produced remotely in Dolby Atmos from Darmstadt by our partner, Vidi, which is also downscaling this for use by all other broadcast partners who don't take the Dolby Atmos signal. It will be deployed at all top matches in the 22-23 season as well, continues Merkel.
SVG Europe also caught up with Stefan Kramper, director broadcast, operator, content and sports Europe at Dolby Laboratories and Tobias Habann, senior broadcast system engineer at Dolby, who were demonstrating the live Dolby Atmos system.
It's our first live direct-to-consumer distribution in Germany, but it's been seven years in the making, says Kramper.
Then the footprint in the market was really low, but now it's a lot higher because of Dolby Atmos in TVs, sound bars, and also mobile devices. It gives you a broad reach. If you have a product like Bundesliga, which is consumed by many millions of people every weekend, you need to have a broad footprint in the market otherwise it doesn't make a lot of sense.
The additional data stream required for broadcast is minimal, says Kramper, and only requires two extra microphones at the ground.
Dolby's Stefan Kramper and Tobias Habann celebrate the Bundesliga premiere of live Dolby Atmos
In terms of streaming bandwidth, the lowest possible bitrate for Dolby Digital Plus Atmos is 384 kbps, says Habann. But here because we have the bandwidth that's just peanuts, especially compared to the video. And with Dolby AC4, we can lower the bitrate by half so we could go down to 192 kbps.
While the live Atmos operation pioneered by Sky UK is truck-based, the Atmos mixing for the new Bundesliga service is completely remote.
It's also much more scalable, says Habann. They can do two matches, or often three on a Saturday. They can add a second room if needed. Adding another truck would be much more costly.
I'm really excited, says Kramper. But we believe the setup we have today and the workflow we have today is just the beginning. This is the starting point.
Battle of the champions
During the game, both teams had something to prove: RB Leipzig wanted to establish themselves in the coming Bundesliga season after winning the DFB Pokal last season in a penalty shootout against SC Freiburg; FC Bayern M nchen, on a high after winning their 10th consecutive Bundesliga title, brought an excellent squad to Leipzig, including Canadian Alphonso Davies, and striker Thomas M ller and new star Sadio Man . The latter would prove to be the focus of another innovation in use at the Supercup, the Starcam.
This is a product that can be tailored to a lot of international markets, says Merkel. The idea is to use live positional data of the players and bring this together with the camera signal to have the camera follow a player for the 90 minutes of the match.
In the beginning, it was a relatively manual process to do it. But now we've adjusted the camera in such a way that the broadcaster who is steering the camera can switch between the players that he wants to show, even during the match. So if a player has put in a really good performance, it's possible for [the broadcaster] to have him in focus until the end of the match.
RB Leipzig fans were rarely less than raucous
The Star Cam was offered to multiple broadcasters for the match, including Sky Deutschland and Sky Mexico, as well as DFL's domestic free-to-air partners, with viewers able to watch former Liverpool striker Man score once and help the Bavarians triumph 5-3.
Cloud-based innovation
Senior vice president of sports production for Sky Deutschland and SVG Europe chairman Alessandro Reitano took part in a panel-based discussion ab
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