What would a balanced picture save your production?
Put your own numbers in — viewers, hours on air, floodlighting, the cost of a poor picture — and see an estimated annual saving. Every assumption is yours to change.
Your numbers
Switch off any saving that doesn't apply to you.
Total hours on air with outdoor daylight. All three savings below scale with this number.
Stream bandwidth
A balanced picture encodes at a lower bitrate for the same quality — fewer gigabytes delivered to every viewer.
≈ – delivered per year, costing – SEK today.
Delivery is priced by volume, so the rate spans a wide range: roughly 0.40–0.85 SEK/GB on public list prices, 0.10–0.20 SEK/GB on a sub-petabyte enterprise contract, and down to about 0.02 SEK/GB on a multi-petabyte contract. The 0.02 default matches the volume the numbers above add up to.
Cost of a poor picture
Manual shading and re-grading, viewer complaints, rights value at risk — per hour on air.
A live shading or grading specialist alone runs roughly 800–1 200 SEK/hour at typical freelance broadcast day rates — before a second pair of hands, viewer complaints, make-good credits, or rights value put at risk by a visibly uneven picture.
Daytime floodlighting
Lights kept on in daylight to satisfy broadcast lighting requirements.
Starting point: an elite, broadcast-grade LED floodlight rig draws roughly 150–280 kW depending on stadium size and lux category — 220 kW here — at around 2 SEK/kWh. Older metal-halide rigs draw two to three times as much.
–SEK / year
- Stream bandwidth–
- Cost of a poor picture–
- Daytime floodlighting–
30 minutes on Teams — we check the numbers against your footage.
An estimate from your inputs and the assumptions shown, not a quote. Actual results depend on your footage, encoder and pipeline.
Three simple sums, all of them yours to adjust
The percentages and per-hour rates are starting points, not promises. Change any of them and the total follows.
Stream bandwidth
viewers × hours × GB per viewer-hour × cost per GB × bitrate reduction
One viewer-hour at 1 Mbit/s is 0.45 GB. Or, with a fixed cost: annual bandwidth cost × bitrate reduction.
Daytime floodlighting
hours × floodlight cost per hour × share of hours avoidable
The daylight hours you no longer need the rig on once the picture is balanced in the signal.
Cost of a poor picture
hours × cost of a poor picture per hour × share addressed
Shading and re-grading time, complaints and credits, rights value at risk from an uneven picture.
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