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The broadcast industry is mired in a state of resolution confusion. HD is the format du jour, 4K UHD is emerging quickly and proponents of 8K refuse to stay quiet. For a broadcast engineer, it’s enough to make your head spin.
When, in May 2019, AMD announced their Ryzen Zen 2 architecture, beyond the amazing performance offered by the new Series 3000 microprocessors, they announced the new chips would support PCI 4.0. Although I was pretty confident the step from 3.0 to 4.0 meant 2X greater bandwidth, I decided it was time to learn more about the PCIe bus.
Esports viewership worldwide is on a steep upward trajectory and will soon begin to challenge traditional sports broadcast audience figures. As the esports and traditional sports communities converge, what can traditional broadcasters learn from the remote production workflows being pioneered by one of esports’ major game developers? In part 1 of this two-part series, we look at the business case.
In this fourth installment of the Immersive Audio series we investigate the production tools needed to produce live immersive content. Moving from channel-based output to object audio presents some interesting challenges as the complex audio image moves around in three-dimensional space.
In an era when electronic media outlets are multiplying like rabbits, many organizations find themselves getting newfound attention on radio and television. Whether it be a seminar, announcement or speech by a public figure, it’s easy to be caught off guard when a gaggle of journalists and TV cameramen show up at your door.
Sound Devices has upgraded its MixPre line of portable audio mixer/recorders and Zoom will soon deliver its F6 mixer/recorder. Both have a revolutionary new feature: so much headroom that it no longer matters where the gain level is set during recording. Both explosive high and quiet volume signals can be recorded at full audio quality without touching a control.
In this series of three articles, we investigate the underlying aspects of computer server design for high value security and 24-hour operation. In the first article we look at advanced server security, in the second article we understand how servers are controlled, and in the third article we gain a deeper understanding of virtualization and the benefits for secure operation.
Humans create their art with the materials available in the era they live in. When French workers created the 151-foot tall Statue of Liberty in the 1870s, they used copper, iron and granite for construction. Five years ago, when a new generation of workers began creating the Statue of Liberty Museum to tell the story of the iconic monument, they employed 8K video and immersive audio, along with physical artifacts, to inspire the 4.3 million annual visitors to the statue site in New York Harbor.