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The LAWO mc<sup>2</sup>56 mkIII with immersive control shown on-screen.

The Sponsors Perspective: Effectively Using The Power Of Immersive Audio October 27th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Lawo’s Christian Scheck takes a tour of console functions and features that have a special place in immersive audio production, and how they are developing.

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The new Microsoft Video Authenticator rates videos with a percentage chance that the content has been artificially manipulated.

Protecting Newsrooms And Viewers From Deepfake Videos October 26th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the age of eager reporters surfing the internet for scandalous scoops, who is helping defend TV station newsrooms by detecting and tagging fake pictures and videos before they air, and how are they doing it? Hint: It’s not ‘golden eyes’ or government regulators.

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Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 5 - Processing Gamma Corrected Signals October 22nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

It is unwise to pretend that gamma corrected signals can successfully be multiplied, added and subtracted in a matrix as if they represented linear light. Yet in television it is done all the time.

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Notre Dame stadium.  Photo credit Andy Fuller.

The Sponsors Perspective: Notre Dame’s IP-Based Campus Crossroads Project October 20th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today, a single cable can deliver every signal to any endpoint in real time, and with outstanding quality, and robustness.

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Digital Audio: Part 4 - ADC’s & The Mathematics Of Quantization & Dither October 15th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Digital audio relies completely on the accuracy of quantization and it is important to see how it works.

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MediorNet MicroN nodes in Riedel’s IP Laboratory.

The Sponsors Perspective: Manage Standardized Connections For Essences/Network Flows - ST2110/AES67 October 13th 2020 - 09:00 AM

With the release of the core parts of the SMPTE ST 2110 suite, the confusion around different transport standards for audio and video over IP is settled. However, the adoption of these solutions for day-to-day use is still far from easy. While there are more and more pure IP facilities and OB trucks now in service, they take significant time to set up and are only practical when a single vendor interface is used.

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The Sponsors Perspective: The Paths To Streaming Distribution - A Tale Of Two OTT Use Cases October 6th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The consumer video market is growing fiercely competitive between content creators and content aggregators and OTT live and OTT VOD formats are growing increasingly fragmented. Consumers are benefiting from the tremendous choice of content and sources for that content while their tolerance for a negative Quality of Experience (QoE) continues to fall. Providers find themselves in the stark reality of having to balance getting to market faster, with greater unit cost efficiencies and with persistent QoE.

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Data Recording and Transmission: Part 24 - Message Integrity October 5th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Once upon a time, the cause of data corruption would be accidental. A dropout on a tape or interference picked up on a cable would damage a few bits. Error correction was designed to deal with that.

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