A Practical Guide To RF In Broadcast: Tuning And Monitoring Transmitters

How to tune for legal & standards compliance and performance, during installation and daily operations.

The performance of the US Emergency Alert System will be nationally tested on 4 October 2023. Tests will include Wireless Emergency Alerts.

The US NPT EAS Test

The FCC recently announced plans for national EAS tests. The first EAS test was on 9 November 2011 at 2 pm EST. The result was that approximately half the participants didn’t receive the test message for myriad technical reasons. It took the Commission five years to develop a better EAS…

Compression: Part 12 - The Evolution Of Video Compression

Having considered all of the vital elements of moving image coding this final part looks at how these elements were combined throughout coding history.

The Streaming Tsunami: Part 5 - Scaling With The Audience At The Edge

The Edge network scales with the audience. The more people that stream concurrently, or the higher the average bitrate requested by a consistently sized audience, the more capacity the Edge network needs. Achieving best possible efficiency at the Edge requires intelligently managing content and performance monitoring, tuning the infrastructure specifically…

A Practical Guide To RF In Broadcast: Transmitter Plant Planning

Broadcast transmitter facility planning, design and construction… and what an engineering consultant can help with.

Understanding The Client-Side OTT Customer Experience

The criticality of service assurance in OTT services is evolving quickly as audiences grow and large broadcasters double-down on their streaming strategies.

Audio For Broadcast: I/O & Recording Devices

We explore the basics of physical connectivity & signal management encountered in broadcast audio systems alongside the destination recording devices.

Motion Pictures: Part 5 - True Motion TV

Having looked at the traditional approach to moving pictures and found that the portrayal of motion was irremediably poor, thoughts turn to how moving pictures might be portrayed properly.

The Potential Impact Of Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing is still a developmental technology but it has the potential to completely transform more or less everything we currently assume regarding what computers can and can’t do - when it hits the mainstream what will it do to broadcast?

OTT Monitoring From The Network Side

At its core, the network-side can be an early warning system for QoS, which in turn correlates to actual QoE performance.