It was in December 2018, during the Rugby World Cup hosted by Japan, that national broadcaster NHK began testing what it called its “Super Hi-Vision” 8K system, broadcasting images via satellite at up to 16x greater than that of HD—with a complementary 22.2-channel audio scheme. At the time NHK, working with Hitachi, developed its own 8K camera system and was (and still is) broadcasting 8K in frame rates of 59.94, 60 and 120P.
As head of NewTek and later its NDI subsidiary for decades until last year, Dr. Andrew Cross was a big advocate of making technology accessible and affordable to a wide range of people. It just made good business sense to create an ecosystem and then allow users to experience some of it for free and build up from there.
Innovative technologies have enabled remote production to take center stage. Although live video capture remote from the studio has been happening for years, COVID-19 has forced this trend to evolve. Today, everything from filming content to directing to editing can be done remotely.
As we saw earlier when discussing transform duality, when something happens on one side of a transform, we can predict through duality what to expect on the other side.
With fewer exhibits and smaller crowds, the 2022 NAB Show aisles were easier to navigate and exhibitors had more time to speak with visitors.
Many annual NAB Shows have become milestones in TV broadcasting history. The presence of the 2022 NAB Show marked the first Las Vegas NAB Show since 2019.
Although we are said to live in an information society, the more that is considered, the less likely it appears. A good place to start is to consider what information is.
People visit NAB Shows for many reasons. Some are there to investigate and examine new solutions. Some are shopping with a budget ready to spend. Others visit to gather ideas and figures for next year’s budget. Many visit to accomplish all this and make time to learn the latest relevant information from the industry experts at BEIT Conferences.