“EVS vs Grass Valley Dyno S: Real-Match Lessons from Poland–Denmark for Replay Operators”

What an amazing match tonight: Poland vs Denmark. We almost won it — last second, last action, and Denmark scores. Draw. That’s handball.

From the tech side, we ran the whole show on Grass Valley Dyno S, and I’ll really argue that Dyno is a great machine when you need massive multi–play-out with many replay packages at once. For this kind of work, I sometimes enjoy it even more than EVS.

Why? Because with Dyno S you have very clear thumbnails, metadata and clip organization. When you end up with hundreds of clips from one match and you need to build playlists exactly according to the MRO, it matters. Today I had to prepare:

• Warm-ups

• Team arrivals

• Key players

• Coaches

• In-match 7-minute highlight package

• 3-minute emotions package

• Plus extra play-out packages around half-time

That’s a lot of material, and having something that feels almost like a Windows-style browser — folders, thumbnails, quickly visible content — really helps you stay in control.

Of course, let’s face it honestly: Dyno S lacks the responsiveness of EVS. EVS is still the fastest system on the market. If I could change one thing in Dyno (which won’t happen, because Dyno is out of support), it would be pure reaction speed. It’s simply too slow at times. And yes, Dyno can still freeze if you jump too aggressively between play-out, camera angles and live feed — sometimes you need to “wake it up” by pressing A/B/C/D and LIVE again to refresh.

That’s definitely something for the future of Grass Valley replay to improve. LiveTouch, in my experience, didn’t solve these problems — in some aspects it was even worse. So I remain a big fan of the old-school Dyno S. This unit has been with us for about 13–14 years in this configuration, and it still has a few settings and options that even EVS doesn’t offer.

Anyway, the match for Eurosport was pure fun: big emotions on the court and a lot of work on the replay side — exactly how I like it.

And if you want to get deeper into EVS or Grass Valley replay systems, VODs and manuals, don’t forget to check our Broadcast Academy:

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