The Beijing Olympic Games is set to be broadcast in high definition format. There are a few new technologies that will be tried for the first time in Beijing, including mobile and internet technologies.

“We will cover the Games for the Internet and mobile telephones. That is completely new,” said Manolo Romero, general manager of the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Co, Ltd (BOB). “We have to adopt technology to be able to better serve the needs of these broadcasters. For example, we will have very powerful video servers that will allow all broadcasters to do very fast and very accurate editing of the productions we would do for the Games.”

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