Digital Concert Hall
The English term Digital Concert Hall (DCH to German: Digital Concert Hall ) is a digital medium for retrieving and transmitting the Berliner Philharmoniker in the internet.
History
The Digital Concert Hall was set up in late 2008. The Berliner Philharmoniker have done with this unprecedented project pioneered to make excellent orchestral music a more numerous audience also available through the venue and timing of the concerts also.
In addition, the Digital Concert Hall is used to document the interpretations of the orchestra and its conductor.
The Digital Concert Hall has been awarded the 2009 Lead Award 2009 in the category ' WebTV ' in gold and the Online Star '09 Jury Award in bronze.
Content
Most of the yearly about 40 concert programs of the Berlin Philharmonic from the Philharmonie in Berlin, the famous building designed by Hans Scharoun with recognized excellent acoustics, can streamed live online in very high optical resolution (high definition video) and can be followed with the best quality in the Internet, specifically from the perspective of the orchestra stage.
In addition, these concerts are followed up and can be accessed with a few days delay in the concert archive the Digital Concert Hall. The extensive concert archive includes not only the actual concerts, mostly under Sir Simon Rattle, even longer past performances, sometimes even from the nineties of the last century ( eg, under Claudio Abbado ).
In addition, there are documentaries such as the movies Rhythm Is It! or Trip to Asia as well as contributions from the education program of the Berlin Philharmonic and interviews with artists of the orchestra, soloists and conductors.
The interviews and contributions from the education program are available free of charge, as a rule, whereas the concerts and documentaries are chargeable, except for rare exceptions. To pay, there are limited tickets ( seven or thirty days and one year, with which users can retrieve many concerts any time during the selected time period ). In addition a monthly subscription with automatic renewal. Tickets are alternatively available as gift vouchers.
Technology
Six high-resolution video cameras were installed to accommodate the motion pictures during the concerts in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the stage, which - like the microphones for sound recordings - can be controlled remotely.
The contents can be accessed and played via an Internet connection either with the help of browsers, or suitably equipped TV or Blu- ray Disc players.
The stereo sound is recorded at 48 kHz and 24 bit in AAC encoding and transmitted at a data rate of 256 kilobits per second. For image reproduction are depending on the available transmission rate various qualities are available, the videos using the H.264 coded: The quality adjustment or changeover takes place according to the currently present at the receiver transfer rates generally automatically. :
At the IFA Berlin 2012 Sony announced to introduce 4k technology for creating, editing, and encoding the video recordings of the Digital Concert Hall.