Experience the Oscars live at Imperial with GigaContent and TV2
Film
23. February 2011
Many hundreds of movie fans will once again flock to Denmark's
largest movie theatre this coming Sunday night to watch and
celebrate the annual awarding of the movie industry's most coveted
prize. GigaContent will once again be providing the transmission
services for delivering a live HD video stream to the huge
cinematic screen at the Imperial Theatre. The link will proceed
from TV2's main facility in Odense to the Imperial Theatre in
central Copenhagen. TV2 Film is responsible for operating the event
at the Imperial Theatre.
The broadcast from Hollywood will start at Sunday at midnight with
live coverage of the stars' arrival at the red carpet in front of
the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, and will continue into the early
morning hours with the Academy Awards ceremony. GigaContent's
technology is perfectly adapted to give hundreds of fans at the
Imperial movie theatre a very special Oscar's experience.
- Oscar Night at Imperial shows just how many opportunities
there are for providing direct content in HD quality to big screens
in connection with special events. We expect to see more and more
live broadcast on big screens not just in cinemas, but for example
in connection with football games or other important events. With
GigaContent's solutions there are serious opportunities for these
new forms of large scale entertainment," says Jan de Blanck, VP of
Sales for Giga Content.
During the night TV2's movie channel TV2 Film will also
broadcast live commentary and interviews from their special Oscar's
studio in the foyee of the Imperial Theatre. Read more about Oscar
night at the Imperial movie theatre here.