Engineering - Update

There have been several developments over the past week. The first concerns the transmission equipment, this was all removed from Pres today and placed up in TV Systems for the time being. The idea is to store it here whilst the rest of the chain is being constructed, this allows easy access to the individual items of equipment. Although this seems like a good idea on the surface, it may prove to be a bad move because now there is no reference to build the new system from, whereas before if a certain item was proving to be difficult to implement it could be checked out in Pres, now it will all have to be completely assembled from scratch.

The interactive build is proceeding well and after speaking to Max last week there are several things that he needs to implement before the next stage:
The sign-up section on the Media Bugs website (where production crews will register for their "Rave Live ID Numbers") needs to have an opt out check box or drop down in it so that people have the option to sign up-to Rave Live but will not remain on the Media Bugs system after the event.
There are a lot of engineers waiting to do some coding so we need to know what needs to be done in php and MySQL so that we can get on with it.
To proceed with Brandings' "augmented reality" logo we need the Rave Live logo as a .dae (Digital Asset Exchange) file.

The OB builds are fairly stagnant at the moment because the programme producers are yet to see the space that they have to work with at the venue (the next site visit is scheduled for the 8th March). Once they have visited then we can begin to gather their equipment requirements and contact the various companies with regards to borrowing some kit off them. There was also bad news in that SiS could not provide us with an OB unit this year due to scheduling constraints. After explaining this to management the decision was taken to approach Telegenic, who kindly provided us with a second OB unit last year, to see if they would be interested again this year. We have also began to build up a contingency plan should we not be able to obtain a truck, this would be in the form of a flyaway although positioning and equipment specifications have yet to be decided.

The last major news is that Jacques and Richard have finally managed to discuss where the lines are going to be run, they are now drawing up cable schedules for the day which can be forwarded onto Matter for them to approve. Once this is done we can begin costing and budgeting for the coax runs around the venue. We have also sent an email to be forwarded onto AEG inquiring about whether or not positioning an antenna on the O2 would be possible and if opening up the various ports needed for Adobe RTSP and MySQL access would be possible, and if there would be a cost involved in doing either of these.