4K Cameras Coming To NBC Sunday Night Football – NFL Fans Now Need 4K TVs!

Teledyne DALSA recently announced that they will be partnering with Replay Technologies to provide its latest generation 4K cameras and frame grabbers for deployment of Replay’s breakthrough freeD sports replay system at AT&T Stadium (formerly Cowboys Stadium) in Arlington, TX. The freeD replay system will be featured during NBC Sunday Night Football’s broadcast of the first Dallas Cowboys NFL home game versus the New York Giants on September 8th.

The freeD system at AT&T Stadium in Arlington will incorporate 24 Teledyne DALSA Falcon2 CMOS cameras. 12 cameras will be positioned around each end’s red zone – the area of the field between the 20-yard line and the goal line – to provide highly detailed freeD replays during the Cowboys/Giants NFL game to be broadcast on NBC Sunday Night Football. The Falcon2 camera’s 12 megapixel “4K” resolution significantly increases the image quality of the freeD system, allowing it to capture more of the action with the ability to ‘go in closer’ while retaining HD quality. The Falcon2 camera was selected for this system to deliver the speed and resolution required for this application. Teledyne DALSA Xcelera frame grabbers, which are optimized for the Falcon2 cameras, are being installed in the control room at AT&T Stadium to capture the camera data and to interface with the freeD system. The system is currently deployed at Yankee Stadium in New York and is a regular feature of Yankees home games broadcasted by the YES Network with an average of 30 second rendering time. That is a fair bit of rendering time, but the footage you get is nothing short of amazing.