- Four iPhone 17 Pro telephones emit parts of a Live MLB game
- It’s a first for iPhone and MLB
- The game streams on Apple TV+
Major League Baseball, America’s pastime, has seen a lot of change in the last 149 years, but now it is seen through a new set of digital eyes – iPhone 17 Pro – and delivered to millions of baseball fans watching Friday night baseball on Apple TV+.
For the first time, Apple and MLB officially bring the new iPhone 17 Pro into Boldmarken to shoot the game and deliver live feeds as part of Baseball Friday Night, streaming on one of the best streaming services that start on September 26, at. 18:30 ET.
Four iPhone 17 Professionals are sitting in Black Magic Phone Docks and tingling around Boston’s Fenway Park for Tigers VS Red Sox games. You will be inside the iconic green monster, two will be in dugouts and you will roam around the stadium.
The phones run all the Black Magic Camera app with exposure and white balance set by connected iPads. The cabling that brings the power in and sends out a video allows them to run continuously and deliver feeds directly to the broadcast cars.
It will only be four phones. Broadcasters have no plans to swap them out during commercial breaks. Instead, they will all stream continuously throughout the HIT game, and the TV team will use them – paste live shot from them – at any time during the broadcast.
The iPhone 17 Pro has three 48MP cameras, including a 4x optical zoom that goes up to a sensor-cropped 8x zoom. Apple TV+ and MLB plan to use all the lens features on iPhones, including 24 mm, 48 mm. 100 mm and 200 mm equivalent (8x zoom).
This is not exactly the first time the iPhone 17 Pro is shooting on the field. There was a test that was run a week ago at Dodger’s Pitcher Clayton Kershaw’s last season match. This evidence of concept gave Apple and MLB the confidence to try it on its last Friday night baseball broadcast of the regular season on Apple TV+.
While the iPhone 17 Pro is more than capable of shooting up to 4K 120fps, the broadcast will be caught at 1080p 59.94fps to match the requirements of the broadcast cars which will receive the feed over a fiber optic line.
I’m not surprised by the use of the iPhone 17 Pro in a professional scenario. After all, my own review found it was one of the best smartphones on the market and photography is insanely good.
Apart from the potential quality of the iPhone 17 Pro video, there is another obvious advantage of using a mobile phone in this scenario: Size. Even in the rig, the iPhone 17 Pro is much smaller and lighter than a traditional TV camera. It can probably fit discreetly on stains where a broadcast camera is likely not.
In fact, the use of four iPhone 17 Pro phones does not change the game or its result, but it marks something of a milestone for Apple’s pocket product. It is one of the more public demonstrations of the iPhone 17 Pro’s ability to be seamlessly deployed in a broadcast production level work. A living proof of concept that somehow goes beyond what we’ve seen Apple and other creators do with iPhone. Most of it has been caught, produced and then delivered as pre -played content. A live, fast pace sports game is another beast.
Apple and MLB may have rained out of the light part. Let’s see if they can avoid strangling on the record on game day. And Techradar will only check the iPhone 17 Pro ‘in action at Fenway Park as they are used for the baseball game on Friday night, so keep an eye on our reporting.
