Global TV audience gets an OptiView of the Olympics
22 August 2008Pilkington OptiView™ anti-reflective glass, manufactured by Pilkington Building Products North America (BPNA), is helping to ensure that TV viewers around the world get a clear view of the Beijing Olympics.
Broadcasters from around the world are covering the Olympic Games from purpose-built studios in the Ling Long Pagoda broadcasting tower, near the Bird's Nest Stadium. The tower, which stands 128 meters tall with seven floors, has an astonishing three-dimensional shape of a triangular prism of vertical transparent glass.
BPNA supplied several containers of OptiView for use in the broadcast booths of all of the global TV networks at the Olympics. The Ling Long tower has one elevation completely glazed with OptiView to eliminate interior reflections while broadcasting from the networks’ booths.