Acquisition

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 6 - Analyzing Gamma Correction In The Frequency Domain

To date, the explanations of gamma that are seen mostly restrict themselves to the voltage or brightness domain and very little has been published about the effects of gamma in the frequency domain. This is a great pity, because analysis in the frequency domain produces interesting results.

Creative Analysis: Part 11 - Cinematographer Stephen Whitehead On An Elephant’s Journey

There’s a famous saying about working with children and animals. During production of An Elephant’s Journey, cinematographer Stephen Whitehead would encounter both, and face the challenge of depicting the vast African landscape in a manner befitting a story from the grand tradition of children’s adventure writing.

HDR: Part 16 - Creative Technology - LED Vs HMI

Big movies still demand big setups, no matter what anyone tells you about the battery-powered light they’re trying to sell. Battery-powered lights are wonderful, of course, even if we only use the battery power for long enough to walk a light in and set it up, but popular ideas about just what they’re capable of can be, well, a little ambitious, and that’s occasionally getting people into trouble.

Creative Analysis: Part 10 - Cinematographer John Brawley On The Great

Cinematographer John Brawley finds himself happily amidst of an unprecedented renaissance of high-end television. The Great is a production that presents a lavish (if fictionalised) spectacle of eighteenth-century Russia, with Brawley photographing five episodes, with the remainder shot by Maja Zamojda and Anette Haellmigk. Ranging from the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy to castles and estates all over England, the production also built extensive sets at Three Mills Studios…

Production & Post

Featuring organic transistors on a plastic sheet OLCD displays bring vivid color and smooth video content to flexible implementations.

Organic LCD To Shape The Future Of TV Studio Displays

The latest displays looking to gain a footing in the studio production arena are made from a technology known to mobile phone developers called organic liquid crystal displays (OLCD). It’s now being tested for dynamic set elements where video can be wrapped around and on top of a set piece. Other ultra-thin, shapeable technologies being discussed but not yet implemented include Flexible Open Frame OLED, In-Glass Wallpaper OLED and Ultra…

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 6 - Analyzing Gamma Correction In The Frequency Domain

To date, the explanations of gamma that are seen mostly restrict themselves to the voltage or brightness domain and very little has been published about the effects of gamma in the frequency domain. This is a great pity, because analysis in the frequency domain produces interesting results.

Creative Analysis: Part 11 - Cinematographer Stephen Whitehead On An Elephant’s Journey

There’s a famous saying about working with children and animals. During production of An Elephant’s Journey, cinematographer Stephen Whitehead would encounter both, and face the challenge of depicting the vast African landscape in a manner befitting a story from the grand tradition of children’s adventure writing.

HDR: Part 16 - Creative Technology - LED Vs HMI

Big movies still demand big setups, no matter what anyone tells you about the battery-powered light they’re trying to sell. Battery-powered lights are wonderful, of course, even if we only use the battery power for long enough to walk a light in and set it up, but popular ideas about just what they’re capable of can be, well, a little ambitious, and that’s occasionally getting people into trouble.

Hardware Infrastructure

Computer Security: Part 1 - What Is Computer Security?

Computer security is always a hot topic, but what do we mean by security and why do systems seem to be ever vulnerable. Comparing hardware to software helps understand vulnerabilities in software security.

The Sponsors Perspective: Capturing Immersive Audio

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

Agile Monitoring Supports Growth Of OTT

To maintain high quality of experience for their customers, content providers need a way to monitor hundreds—sometimes thousands—of channels without compromising real-time error detection. In most cases, the immense scale of their service offerings makes continual visual monitoring of all streams physically impossible and error prone. To meet this need, the flexibility, scalability and agility of software-defined monitoring systems is applied to achieve unlimited multiviewer scaling and fully automated monitoring…

Data Recording and Transmission: Part 25 - Encryption Strategies

As in all systems where there are opposed ideologies, there is a kind of cold war in which advances on one side need to be balanced by advances on the other. In encryption, the availability of increased computing power at low cost made it easier to break codes, but it also made it easier to create strong codes.

Software Infrastructure

Automatically generating repurposed content in transport streams can automatically generate new profits.

New Compliance Tools Bring New Revenue Opportunities

Compliance solutions have rapidly transformed a once operator-intensive legal necessity into suites of automatic processes for new revenues.

Computer Security: Part 1 - What Is Computer Security?

Computer security is always a hot topic, but what do we mean by security and why do systems seem to be ever vulnerable. Comparing hardware to software helps understand vulnerabilities in software security.

The Sponsors Perspective: Capturing Immersive Audio

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

Agile Monitoring Supports Growth Of OTT

To maintain high quality of experience for their customers, content providers need a way to monitor hundreds—sometimes thousands—of channels without compromising real-time error detection. In most cases, the immense scale of their service offerings makes continual visual monitoring of all streams physically impossible and error prone. To meet this need, the flexibility, scalability and agility of software-defined monitoring systems is applied to achieve unlimited multiviewer scaling and fully automated monitoring…

Audio

Digital Audio: Part 5 - The Mathematics Of Oversampling

Oversampling is a topic that is central to digital audio and has almost become universal, but what does it mean?

The Sponsors Perspective: Capturing Immersive Audio

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

Loudness units relative to full scale (LUF) is the most accurate way to measure the audio level of a program or commercial.

AES Tackles Online Content Loudness

It was on December 13, 2011 that the Federal Communications Committee (FCC, the governmental body that oversees TV broadcasting in the U.S.), along with many irritated consumers, had had enough and decided to do something about the often times huge disparity in the audio level of commercials versus program content. This was after the U.S. congress passed the Calm Act bill on September 29, 2010.

The Sponsors Perspective: Monitoring Immersive Audio

Genelec Senior Technologist Thomas Lund starts down the road to ideal monitoring for immersive audio by looking at what is real, and how that could or should be translated for the listener.

Playout & Transmission

Update: The future has been slightly delayed. Please stand by.

Title: NextGen TV Looks To 2021

Broadcasters are famous for adjusting to changing circumstances during live broadcasts without missing a beat. Live radio DJs roll with the punches. Live TV news reporters, newscast directors, engineers and technicians move or cut away as fast as possible. It comes with the territory and it’s in our DNA. The trick is to make surprises appear to be part of the show and carry on.

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 6 - Analyzing Gamma Correction In The Frequency Domain

To date, the explanations of gamma that are seen mostly restrict themselves to the voltage or brightness domain and very little has been published about the effects of gamma in the frequency domain. This is a great pity, because analysis in the frequency domain produces interesting results.

Digital Audio: Part 5 - The Mathematics Of Oversampling

Oversampling is a topic that is central to digital audio and has almost become universal, but what does it mean?

New Compliance Tools Bring New Revenue Opportunities

Compliance solutions have rapidly transformed a once operator-intensive legal necessity into suites of automatic processes for new revenues.

Distribution & Delivery

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 6 - Analyzing Gamma Correction In The Frequency Domain

To date, the explanations of gamma that are seen mostly restrict themselves to the voltage or brightness domain and very little has been published about the effects of gamma in the frequency domain. This is a great pity, because analysis in the frequency domain produces interesting results.

Ultra HD Forum Announces Watermarking API

The Ultra HD Forum has confirmed launch of its first API for forensic watermarking before the end of 2020.

The World Of OTT: Part 2 - The Main Components Of The OTT Ecosystem

All video services begin with some form of content production and acquisition, so we will assume this is constant regardless of the content distribution method.

Agile Monitoring Supports Growth Of OTT

To maintain high quality of experience for their customers, content providers need a way to monitor hundreds—sometimes thousands—of channels without compromising real-time error detection. In most cases, the immense scale of their service offerings makes continual visual monitoring of all streams physically impossible and error prone. To meet this need, the flexibility, scalability and agility of software-defined monitoring systems is applied to achieve unlimited multiviewer scaling and fully automated monitoring…

Test, QC & Monitoring

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 6 - Analyzing Gamma Correction In The Frequency Domain

To date, the explanations of gamma that are seen mostly restrict themselves to the voltage or brightness domain and very little has been published about the effects of gamma in the frequency domain. This is a great pity, because analysis in the frequency domain produces interesting results.

Digital Audio: Part 5 - The Mathematics Of Oversampling

Oversampling is a topic that is central to digital audio and has almost become universal, but what does it mean?

Creative Analysis: Part 11 - Cinematographer Stephen Whitehead On An Elephant’s Journey

There’s a famous saying about working with children and animals. During production of An Elephant’s Journey, cinematographer Stephen Whitehead would encounter both, and face the challenge of depicting the vast African landscape in a manner befitting a story from the grand tradition of children’s adventure writing.

HDR: Part 16 - Creative Technology - LED Vs HMI

Big movies still demand big setups, no matter what anyone tells you about the battery-powered light they’re trying to sell. Battery-powered lights are wonderful, of course, even if we only use the battery power for long enough to walk a light in and set it up, but popular ideas about just what they’re capable of can be, well, a little ambitious, and that’s occasionally getting people into trouble.

Services

New Compliance Tools Bring New Revenue Opportunities

Compliance solutions have rapidly transformed a once operator-intensive legal necessity into suites of automatic processes for new revenues.

Transition to SaaS means crossing the Valley of Death.

Don’t Make An Ass Of aaS

Media companies were already gradually moving towards as-a-service business models before Coronavirus hit. However, X-as-a-Service is not a simple transition and it is not for all product or all companies.

The Sponsors Perspective: Capturing Immersive Audio

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

SMPTE has created a highly interactive, online meeting place for conference attendees that mimics a physical trade show.

Virtual SMPTE 2020 Targets Global Community With Interactive Platform

Like most industry gatherings this year, the 2020 SMPTE show is virtual and runs from November 10-12, complete with an interactive environment that incorporates a main conference hub, meeting rooms, theater space for sessions and the annual awards gala, and an exhibition hall with private meeting spaces. Many of the events, in addition to the Awards Gala, have been pre-recorded so attendees can view them at their leisure.