World’s most-watched TV show, China’s Spring Festival Gala, uses Disguise

The Chinese New Year is a pivotal moment for Chinese broadcasters - it is a time for celebration, spectacle, and pushing visual boundaries.

The biggest broadcast of them all is China’s Spring Festival Gala. A cultural institution, the live TV event holds the Guinness World Record as the most-watched television show in the world. The 2025 event reached new heights, achieving nearly 17 billion views across all media platforms and 2 billion livestream views.

A showcase of technological innovation

The 2025 gala beckoned in the Chinese New Year with a five hour showcase of music, dancing, and performances from global artists. Disguise technology was used to help power the live ceremony in Beijing. This included the use of the industry-standard VX4+ media server and RXII rendering solution.

The ceremony’s theme this year was Innovation, with performances demonstrating the endless possibilities of audio-visual technologies – such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and stereoscopic visuals.

Disguise’s state-of-the-art solution was therefore perfectly suited to help render graphics in real-time at ultra-high resolution, without dropping a single frame.

Heavy content demands for breathtaking segments

The power of Disguise technology was shown to its full potential in segments such as the opening ceremony, ‘Welcoming Fortune’. This performance relied on intense visual effects and precise tracking of performance props, both on stage and screen. This included a digital version of the ‘iron flower’ – a famous type of firework that is part of Chinese indigenous cultural heritage.

Video Credit: CMG Spring Festival Gala

Disguise’s VX4+ media server could seamlessly handle the heavy content demands of other elements, such as the ballet performance of ‘The Lady’ which saw dancers’ toes touching virtual water, creating real-time ripples on the stage and screen. This was made possible through a high-precision AI visual tracking system and smart devices worn by the dancers. The VX4+ powered these cutting-edge visuals with ease, allowing the dancers’ movements and visual effects to synchronise on the stage, screen, and television broadcast.

Video Credit: CMG Spring Festival Gala

Meanwhile, the RXII range was used throughout the performances to render complex real-time scenes with pixel-perfect accuracy. The broadcasters could benefit from the fact that the RX range is engine agnostic. This means that the RXII nodes can be used with any content engine and connect to any third-party rendering engines. 

Attracting a huge domestic audience, and a growing international audience, the Spring Festival Gala continues to showcase the peak capabilities of visual technology. All this has been achieved with help from industry leader, Disguise, and the extraordinary processing power and logistical support its technology and services provide.

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