Sony codec delivers premium quality picture with low latency for Chilean football league coverage

Oslo, Norway, 7 April, 2026 – Nevion, a Sony group company, announced today TvTel (formerly Vivaro Video), a leading provider of technical and professional services for broadcast productions in Latin America, has gone live with a remote production and contribution solution for live coverage of the Chilean football league. Delivered by Sony, Nevion and local partner VGL, the solution leverages the software-defined media node Virtuoso with its new Sony-developed HEVC codec, to provide premium quality video with low latency, while significantly reducing bandwidth consumption, and therefore costs.

TvTel won the contract to provide the production services to TNT Sports (a subsidiary of Warner Bros Discovery), and realized it needed to upgrade its production infrastructure to support the coverage of up to 480 football/soccer games a year, from 32 stadiums, using 8 small OB trucks – all this with the highest quality. Specifically, it needed a WAN solution to handle both remote production and contribution, meaning media transport, broadcast control and orchestration.

The compact solution delivered involves the installation of Virtuosos in each truck, and at the headquarters in Santiago. A key component of Sony’s Networked Live offering, Virtuoso has been widely deployed across the globe to transport, process, and monitor signals in real-time. In this instance, the HEVC function of Virtuoso is used to transport reliably up to 16 video signals from the stadiums to the central facilities, and up to 4 return feeds.

The set-up, which also included 48 HDC-3100 and HDC-5500 cameras, is controlled by Nevion VideoIPath, which provides both orchestration and broadcast control.

The project was delivered in 4 months.

Gonzalo Jara, Director of technology and operations at TvTel said: “Like most organizations involved in the broadcasting of live premium sports, we require premium picture quality, low latency and as little bandwidth usage as possible. The Virtuoso HEVC functionality delivers an excellent combination of those.”

Steve Hard, Product Director Virtuoso at Nevion adds: “It has been exciting to be involved in such a high profile and critical project. This is also special for us, as it is the first deployment of the new HEVC codec in Latin America.”

Virtuoso will be on show at the Sony booth (C8401) at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 19–22, 2026.

About Networked Live

Sony and Nevion’s Networked Live is an ecosystem of solutions, products, services, and partners that combines hybrid on-premises and Cloud processing with network connectivity to transform the logistics and economics of high-quality mission critical live production.

It does this by enabling resources (places, people, and processing) to be connected, used, and shared optimally and seamlessly in productions – regardless of their locations. For more information, see: nevion.com

About Nevion

As the architect of virtualized media production, Nevion, a Sony Group Company, provides media network and broadcast infrastructure solutions to broadcasters, telecommunication service providers, government agencies and other industries. Increasingly based on IP, virtualization and Cloud technology, Nevion’s solutions enable the management, transport and processing of professional-quality video, audio and data – in real time, reliably and securely. From content production to distribution, Nevion solutions are used to power major sporting and live events across the globe. Some of the world’s largest media groups and telecom service providers use Nevion technology, including AT&T, NBC Universal, Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., NASA, Arqiva, BBC, CCTV, EBU, BT, TDF and Telefonica.

For more information please visit www.nevion.com. Follow Nevion on Twitter @nevioncorp

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