Essential Guide: Flexible Contribution Over IP

Outside Broadcast connectivity using managed and unmanaged networks is delivering opportunities for employers that enhances productivity through flexibility, scalability, and resilience.

Machine Learning For Broadcasters: Part 2 - Applications

In part one of this series, we looked at why machine learning, with particular emphasis on neural networks, is different to traditional methods of statistical based classification and prediction. In this article, we investigate some of the applications specific for broadcasters that ML excels at.

NextGen TV is headed in multiple directions simultaneously. Datacasting may provide its biggest new profit center opportunity.

NextGenTV Mid-2022 Progress Report

Some call it the Broadcast Core Network, or Broadcast Internet, or One-to-Many Private Datacasting. Others simply call it datacasting.

Today’s Content Delivery And Fulfillment Requires A Deeper Understanding Of Your Audience

The concept of leveraging the public Internet as the main infrastructure for widespread distribution of content, both for B2B and Direct-to-Consumer applications, is new to traditional broadcasters that have treated the digital side as a secondary silo to their linear channels, but that’s changing.

Content by:

Vendor Spotlight: Blackmagic Design

Founded in 2001, Blackmagic Design is based in Melbourne, Australia, with offices in Fremont and Burbank, Calif. in the U.S., as well as Manchester, England, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

How To Achieve Broadcast-Grade Latency For Live Video Streaming - Part 1

For a serious discussion about “making streaming broadcast-grade” we must address latency. Our benchmark is 5-seconds from encoder input to device, but we cannot compromise on quality. It’s not easy, and leaders in the field grapple with the trade-offs to ensure the best possible customer experience.

Designing Media Supply Chains: Part 2 - Cloudification And Live Sports Drive Content Ingest

We continue our series of articles on design considerations for Media Supply Chains looking at the technology trends influencing Ingest.

Information: Part 5 - Moving Images

Signal transducers such as cameras, displays, microphones and loudspeakers handle information, ideally converting it from one form to another, but practically losing some. Information theory can be used to analyze such devices.

Building An IP Studio - Connecting Cameras - Part 1

Connecting a camera in an SDI infrastructure is easy. Just connect the camera output to the monitor input, and all being well, a picture will appear. The story is very different in the IP domain.

Master Control: Part 2 - Communications

This second part of our Master Control mini series tackles COMMS - without which we would have chaos.