Acquisition

HDR - Part 13 - Cameras And The Zero-Sum Game

For a long time, selecting camera gear has been fairly easy. For twenty years, digital cinema cameras have never quite had everything we wanted, and the choice often boiled down to comparing the compromises. That’ll always be true to a degree, but for the last year or two it’s felt like we’re arriving somewhere. We can’t have anything, but we can have more than enough, and those compromises are boiling…

Creative Analysis - Part 5 - Video Displays With Markus Förderer

It’s perhaps a little unfair to blame modern visual effects people for the fact that audiences are becoming a little jaded about green screen. If we’re to conclude that there’s some sort of quality problem with VFX, we’d need to be sure that we were noticing each and every use, so we know how big the sample is. Many of the applications of VFX, in modern movies, are actually comparatively…

Is Gamma Still Needed? - Part 3

There are two components of gamma that have quite different purposes. One of them is always necessary because displays and their surroundings are never equally as bright as the original scene. The other one is a compression technique.

Creative Analysis - Part 4 - Shooting Commercials From Petitteville And Yeung

Steeven Petitteville’s background in cinematography begins with the sort of story that many people would like to be able to tell. Petitteville didn’t finish studying at the ESRA film school in Paris, having become too busy working in the camera department to do so. After ten years as a camera assistant, he arrived in Los Angeles to shoot a commercial. Seven years later, he’s still there.

Production & Post

Changing Architecture In The New IP World

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

HDR - Part 13 - Cameras And The Zero-Sum Game

For a long time, selecting camera gear has been fairly easy. For twenty years, digital cinema cameras have never quite had everything we wanted, and the choice often boiled down to comparing the compromises. That’ll always be true to a degree, but for the last year or two it’s felt like we’re arriving somewhere. We can’t have anything, but we can have more than enough, and those compromises are boiling…

Live TV Karma is always lurking behind live lenses from network World Championship Broadcasts to local Candidate Forums.

Live TV Karma Rules

Warning: Live TV production troubleshooting contradictions can trigger cognitive dissonance.

Creative Analysis - Part 5 - Video Displays With Markus Förderer

It’s perhaps a little unfair to blame modern visual effects people for the fact that audiences are becoming a little jaded about green screen. If we’re to conclude that there’s some sort of quality problem with VFX, we’d need to be sure that we were noticing each and every use, so we know how big the sample is. Many of the applications of VFX, in modern movies, are actually comparatively…

Hardware Infrastructure

Changing Architecture In The New IP World

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

Data Recording and Transmission: Delivering Data - Part 23

The requirements for data transmission have changed out of all recognition since the early days of computing where the goal was simply to make something that worked. Today that’s the easy part.

Immersive audio is bringing a whole new panning experience - 3D panning on a Lawo MC<sup>2</sup>66

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever taller and wider. This went hand in hand with the switch from mono to stereo and a stunning series of…

Simplifying Monitoring

As IP, COTs and IT systems advance through broadcast infrastructures, monitoring continues to play a critical role in the efficient and reliable running of a facility. Combining traditional video and audio monitoring with network and system analysis soon increases in complexity, so what do we need to do to optimize monitoring and provide the most reliable system possible?

Software Infrastructure

Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding Edges Towards Final Approval

Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) is gaining traction faster than any other video compression standard as it approaches final approval by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

Changing Architecture In The New IP World

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

Data Recording and Transmission: Delivering Data - Part 23

The requirements for data transmission have changed out of all recognition since the early days of computing where the goal was simply to make something that worked. Today that’s the easy part.

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever taller and wider. This went hand in hand with the switch from mono to stereo and a stunning series of…

Audio

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever taller and wider. This went hand in hand with the switch from mono to stereo and a stunning series of…

Simplifying Monitoring

As IP, COTs and IT systems advance through broadcast infrastructures, monitoring continues to play a critical role in the efficient and reliable running of a facility. Combining traditional video and audio monitoring with network and system analysis soon increases in complexity, so what do we need to do to optimize monitoring and provide the most reliable system possible?

Rohde and Schwarz PRISMON – Multiviewer & audio/video monitoring solution.

The Sponsors Perspective: Taming The Virtualized Beast

Without doubt, virtualization is a key technological evolution focus and it will empower many broadcast and media organizations to work differently, more efficiently and more profitably.

The Sponsors Perspective: An Ambisonics Primer

Sennheiser examines the theory, implementation, and uses of the Ambisonic soundfield, and its important role in the immersive audio world.

Playout & Transmission

Data Recording and Transmission: Delivering Data - Part 23

The requirements for data transmission have changed out of all recognition since the early days of computing where the goal was simply to make something that worked. Today that’s the easy part.

Testing includes ramping up alert tests in four different time periods every two weeks, so more people on separate shifts can experience it.

Will NextGen TV Change Local News?

Tests in Washington D.C. ABC and FOX affiliate newsrooms will reveal the first data on new NextGen TV systems and workflows.

The Sponsors Perspective: Taming The Virtualized Beast

Without doubt, virtualization is a key technological evolution focus and it will empower many broadcast and media organizations to work differently, more efficiently and more profitably.

ATSC 3.0 broadcasters’ future could be watering crops and turning on industrial lighting systems.

Broadcasters Consider Using ATSC 3.0 To Control IoT Devices. Is That “Broadcasting?”

Thanks to the pioneering and the sometimes overly promotional work of One Media, the wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, the new broadcast standard emerging in the U.S., called ATSC 3.0, is promising broadcasters new capabilities well beyond delivering TV signals. Yet it’s also about to change the very definition of what it means to be a “broadcaster” in today’s highly competitive video marketplace.

Distribution & Delivery

Changing Architecture In The New IP World

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever taller and wider. This went hand in hand with the switch from mono to stereo and a stunning series of…

Will NextGen TV Change Local News?

Tests in Washington D.C. ABC and FOX affiliate newsrooms will reveal the first data on new NextGen TV systems and workflows.

Live TV Karma Rules

Warning: Live TV production troubleshooting contradictions can trigger cognitive dissonance.

Test, QC & Monitoring

Changing Architecture In The New IP World

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

Data Recording and Transmission: Delivering Data - Part 23

The requirements for data transmission have changed out of all recognition since the early days of computing where the goal was simply to make something that worked. Today that’s the easy part.

HDR - Part 13 - Cameras And The Zero-Sum Game

For a long time, selecting camera gear has been fairly easy. For twenty years, digital cinema cameras have never quite had everything we wanted, and the choice often boiled down to comparing the compromises. That’ll always be true to a degree, but for the last year or two it’s felt like we’re arriving somewhere. We can’t have anything, but we can have more than enough, and those compromises are boiling…

Will NextGen TV Change Local News?

Tests in Washington D.C. ABC and FOX affiliate newsrooms will reveal the first data on new NextGen TV systems and workflows.

Services

Changing Architecture In The New IP World

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever taller and wider. This went hand in hand with the switch from mono to stereo and a stunning series of…

Simplifying Monitoring

As IP, COTs and IT systems advance through broadcast infrastructures, monitoring continues to play a critical role in the efficient and reliable running of a facility. Combining traditional video and audio monitoring with network and system analysis soon increases in complexity, so what do we need to do to optimize monitoring and provide the most reliable system possible?

The Sponsors Perspective: Taming The Virtualized Beast

Without doubt, virtualization is a key technological evolution focus and it will empower many broadcast and media organizations to work differently, more efficiently and more profitably.