NBC Olympics selects 5 Mixer broadcast Olympics

NBC Olympics has selected five Calrec Omegawith Bluefin mixer relay of the Beijing Olympics. These 56 faders of the mixer will provide some of the many sports competitions were mixed. NBC Olympics sound design Director Bob Dixon said, this is the first time the games entirely in high definition and 5.1 separation but United States Mono is still in the transition period, the majority of the viewers still dual mono SD television watching. This means that China produced must combine both. Plan is to send six separate channels with HD image to the United States, with particular attention to NBC's stereo listening audience dwarf mix these channels. Each game's audio as a 5.1 channel programming mix and at the same time as a two channel program a stereo miniature dwarf mixed mixed sound is sent. Stereo-mix will be used for advertising film and post-production work.