During this year’s Olympic games, 9000 hours of sports will be broadcast over 17 days, with a significant portion of that in UHD-2/8K ultrahigh-definition format. When you consider that the International Broadcasting Centre (IBC) will be 30% smaller than it was in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it really emphasizes the advances made in remote production. It also changed the perspectives of those who believe that cloud costs are unrealistic for UHD. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a trend that was already firmly under way in 2019. Cloud production and remote back-haul now require a significantly smaller number of people to be on-site and it is cost-effective to pull UHD feeds internationally to remote studios where the individual countries’ broadcasters can create a local program from a broad range of live and offline feeds made available by the host broadcaster.