Update: Following Faultline’s recent coverage of Olympic Broadcasting Services’ (OBS) plan to deliver the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Games entirely over IP infrastructure, OBS has provided additional details addressing several points raised in our original report. In its statement, OBS emphasised that the transition to IP is not a sudden leap but the continuation of a multi-Games strategy dating back to Tokyo 2020. The Tokyo Games marked OBS’s first use of a fully IP-based UHD HDR transmission network between venues and the International Broadcast Centre (IBC), employing the SMPTE ST-2110 standard. This approach was expanded in Paris 2024, where IP played a central role in delivering the Opening Ceremony on the River Seine — an event OBS describes as its…