While most of the noise surrounding on September 26, 2025, the game between Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigra was that the home team received the place of postseson, it was also marked by a significant step forward in how the game was played, and the main first for the game and AppleField
Apple is a partner of MLB since 2022 when Baseball on Friday evening Started on Apple TV+, and that night his iPhone is finally discarded from the bench. A week after the officially launched the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max, the Apple TV+ Production team worked with MLB and Fenway Park to deploy four of these devices to improve the broadcast – all in the desire to ensure new ways to capture the ball and make the audience at home, as they are immersed, as at the stands on Fenway.
TechRadar gained exclusive access to see these four iPhone – one 17 Pro Max and three 17 pro – close to Fenway Park before the judge shouted “playing the ball”. I also made a trip to a production truck and talked with Royce Diexon, an executive producer Live Sports on Apple TV.
Most of the attractiveness of using the main array of the iPhone 17 Pro camera, which includes a 48-megapixel, 48-megapixel super-wide and 48-megapixel telephoto lens, is that it can capture the game on the same standard as a professional camera. But thanks to the total size and weight of the iPhone, it can also be expanded in places that traditional broadcast chambers simply cannot correspond.
“The television cameras are large in nature with large lenses, and they occupy a lot of real estate,” Dirixon explained. Looking at the dirty pole of the right field in the Fenwai Park, he is gently known as the “annoying pole,” I noticed a familiar shade of the cosmic orange. There was a pro on the iPhone 17, held in place with two clamps, broadcasting a living look from the dirty pole.
Another iPhone was hidden inside the green monster using the user filter – it sat directly between the gap between the “ball” and “blow”, as well as the third, which wandered with the operator on the ronin’s cardank, and the last one in the drilling plant on a tripod along the first base line.
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Dilexon summed up this in this way: “It is about getting to new places for customers to see the corner of the game that they may have not seen before, and to see the story told about the game in the other way.”
We saw this in action in one of the two production trucks Apple TV+ are used to produce each Baseball on Friday evening game. There, many screens displayed living channels from various cameras, including four iPhones and traditional broadcasting chambers, while the director and team called shots, deciding which camera at the right time.
IPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max Units did not work to order, software only for Apple. Instead, they used standard accessories – such as tripods and filters – along with a widely accessible application from the App Store, Blackmagic CameraThen the fields lived either through a direct fiber or through a radio frequency (radio frequency) in a production truck. In other words, these iPhone at the level of consumers were integrated directly into the professional work processes of broadcasting, with effects, banners and shading added in real time.
The allocated iPad was what seemed a larger iPad Air or iPad Pro, which had all four views from the iPhone in the grid. Here, the operator in the truck can remotely control the iPhone, increasing from super -ricked to the maximum digital scale. For example, with Foll Pole iPhone, iPhone 17 Pro was installed in several pictures, including wide, dense and very dense for images on a plate.
Given that the iPhone rose on the dirty pole, there cannot be a traditional camera or its operator. In this case, Apple TV+ set the line of the direct fiber, which passed along the pole, through the seats and to the GRDs, to send almost without delay in the production truck. There, the iPad operator can regulate the shading in real time, as well as a presentation, only with microseconds of waiting time. He quickly dragged them for me, and during the game he chose a direction from the director.
This is a truly impressive feat, which, in the visible one, worked without adhesion in his first official use. Those who are watching the game at home – either on TV near the Park Fenway with Apple TV application, broadcasting the game – will not notice a significant difference in quality. Apple TV+ demonstrated the iPhone at the beginning of the broadcast, and then, when he took a picture from one of the phones, he simply used the “IPhone” shot in the upper right corner. Beautiful, without distraction, and, to the honor of Diexon, he is focused on the game itself.
“If at this moment a shot from the monster is required, we will go to him. If he is an annoying pole, we will go to him. There are no rhyme or the reasons why they will cause a certain camera, unless this goes to the future story of the game that night, ”said Diexson.
For the director inside the industrial truck, four iPhone cameras are just another tool. For example, the epic conclusion about the Home Ran to win the Red Sox was captured by all four iPhone: a dirty pole, a perceptible initial contact, a rush of a dictator, and then the roar and face of the crowd, to one in a green monster and the first basic line, forcing him to round the bases, to the fact that one of the crowd receives that immortal festive shot.
This is an ideal idea of something that Dilexon told me before the game: “These phones are processed the same way as any other camera. This is the power of the phone, and the ease with which they can be integrated into professional systems is amazing. All that we use from these cameras, taking into account customers, so any home can perform the same quality of work with the camera that we do here here, working here, just as we do here, we work here. Baseball on Friday evening.
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With tuning at the first basic level, this is, in fact, iPhone 17 Pro It is installed on a stand, followed by a tripod with a center for power and swallowing personnel. Pro iPhone 17 in green monsters, perhaps, was the most deceived with the lens on the front, but basically it is to make a shot, since it is slightly built behind the wall. For stabilization, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is used on the cardank, and the one on the pole is not given in a freezm.
Perhaps one of the aspects of experience where it does not work with a complete throttle is that Apple TV+ broadcasts baseball on Friday evening at 1080p 60, and not the maximum 4K 60 that the iPhone 17 Pro can record. In this, Dilerson noted: “We think that this is the best image quality in sports right now. Therefore, we are especially focused on this and continue to improve this. ”
“Nothing prevents anyone from doing this. We think that this is reproduced by all broadcasts, not only for us, but also for any other broadcaster who wants to get here, but on Friday evening, baseball is right now, this is a cool first step for this, ”Directs explained. Apple TV collaborated with separate teams and baseball of the Premier League so that this happened, and the league authenticated each of the iPhone used for broadcasting.
Probably the biggest surprise for me after I saw the iPhone in a clamp or in the near future, and then seeing the production side – this is how the team producing all this really sees it as a tool. The quality of the camera, as you can read more about the full view of Techradar 17 Pro And 17 Pro MaxIt is there with the best, and for a baseball brigade on Friday evening you can really see the creative side and how these iPhone can bend.
The Blackmagic Camera application makes it possible to work in locking with wider production and for fast swallowing, but also allows operators – physically or remotely – jump to the presents, such as a 48 -megapixel master of 24 mm or 8x telecopols, these units were broadcast long before the start of the game – I got to the park at about 16:00 eastern time, ahead 7:05 PM, and they ran a few hours ago – and offered a live shot throughout the game and even after it ended.
The iPhone met with a call and was first used to broadcast the game, which is a noticeable triumph for the Apple TV sports team and, probably, the iPhone command in Apple. Until now, Apple TV+ has only announced that the iPhone will be used for this specific baseball match on Friday evening, but I asked Roys if they would be deployed in the future:
“We are excited about the potential for the use of the iPhone in the future, but right now, as I have already mentioned, we are focused on today, but the future is bright for the iPhone.” This does not confirm the future use, but I would hoped that we would see it again. As for why, I will finish with this note from Royce about one of the last tests for preliminary Anurcy iPhone 17 Pro on September 12, 2025:
“I sat in a truck next to Stephen Rodriguez, an Apple coordination producer for living sports views, and noticed that this amazing shot, which, as I thought, was really cool. And only after someone pushed me and said that it was an iPhone. And I just thought it was another wonderful shot. I did not realize this. “
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