Winter Olympics 4K UHD Channel
Beijing Radio & Television Station
Ultra-HD production and broadcast, built for the Games.
A distributed 4K ultra-HD service system for a dedicated Winter Olympics documentary channel — integrating ingest, production, transcode, review, and distribution behind advanced cloud, 5G, and AI technology.
Overview
Beijing Radio & Television Station's Winter Olympics Documentary Channel is China's only national satellite channel dedicated to winter sports and Olympic coverage. Sobey built its 4K ultra-HD production and broadcasting service system on a distributed architecture, combining ultra-HD, cloud, 5G, and AI to sustain daily UHD output after launch.
Challenge
A dedicated ultra-HD channel needs a complete, reliable pipeline — from ingest to distribution — that can produce and broadcast 4K every day. Standing that up around a major sporting event leaves no room for gaps in the chain.
End-to-end UHD pipeline
Uploading, recording, producing, synthesizing, transcoding, reviewing, and distributing 4K all had to work as one integrated business platform.
Daily broadcast readiness
The channel needed dependable day-in, day-out ultra-HD production capacity from the moment it launched.
Full-process management
Program flow and staffing had to be managed scientifically from the initiating end to the receiving end.
Solution
Sobey delivered a distributed 4K ultra-HD service system integrating upload, recording, production, synthesis, transcode, review, and distribution — plus the processes and staffing to run them. Cloud computing, intelligent technology, and ultra-HD video form the technical core, giving full-process management of the channel's programs from origination to reception.
Delivered with
The Sobey solutions and products behind this deployment — each built to work together as one chain.
Result
The channel meets its daily ultra-HD production and broadcasting needs on an advanced, distributed technical foundation — a complete UHD chain purpose-built for the Games and beyond.
Ultra-HD production and broadcasting chain, end to end.
Workflow stages integrated — upload, record, produce, synthesize, transcode, review, distribute.
Dedicated ultra-HD channel on air since.