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Using Cinema Cameras For Live Sports Broadcast July 7th 2022 - 09:30 AM

We discuss the business case and technology challenges of using cinema cameras in live sports broadcast with Mark Chiolis of Mobile TV Group.

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Information: Part 4 - Data Rates July 7th 2022 - 09:30 AM

In an increasingly digital world, it may be useful to look at the amount of data needed to represent various media. Note that the amount of data is being considered; the amount of information will always be somewhat less than that.

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Electricity: Part 4 - Solar Panels July 6th 2022 - 11:00 AM

Solar Panels, or photo-voltaics (PV), have their uses, but they also have their drawbacks.

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Too Few Crew To Meet The Post Pandemic UK Production Surge July 4th 2022 - 09:00 AM

There has been an almost inevitable surge in TV production in the UK as the pandemic recedes. The way the sector has rapidly hit production capacity highlights some long-term issues with how the industry attracts and trains new talent.

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Transforms: Part 6 - The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) July 1st 2022 - 09:00 AM

The Fourier Transform is complex in the mathematical sense, which means that each coefficient is represented by complex number.

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HDR: Part 4 - Surviving Modern Colorimetry June 29th 2022 - 09:55 AM

Most people are aware that any color can be mixed from red, green and blue light, and we make color pictures out of red, green and blue images. The relationship between modern color imaging and the human visual system was recently discussed by John Watkinson in his series on color. In this piece, we’re going to look at something that comes up often in modern film and TV technique: color gamuts. It’s a term that suffers a lot of misuse, but the basics are simple: a color image uses red, green and blue, and the gamut describes which red, which green, and which blue we’re using.

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Birmingham 2022 will be the biggest sports event in the UK since London 2012.

Preparing To Broadcast ​Commonwealth Games Birmingham June 27th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The 2022 Commonwealth Games will be the biggest sports event on UK shores since London 2012 with around 1.5 billion global audience expected to watch over the 11 day event beginning July 28. Bidding for the host broadcast contract began in summer of 2019 with the award announced for Sunset + Vine in April 2020. Here’s what S+V plan with a special focus on one of its OB partners, Gravity Media.

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Canon portable HD ENG lens, HJ18ex7.6B

Camera Lenses Part 3: MTF And Depth Of Field June 23rd 2022 - 09:00 AM

All lenses suffer from various imperfections that reduce sharpness. However, even if the lens elements were ideal and caused no loss of resolution, lenses still can’t focus to a perfect point.

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