Our first Essential Insights is a set of three video episodes in which we discuss transitioning to IP with industry experts. We explore the fundamental challenges during the planning stage. The decisions that need to be made, and the long-term thinking needed to maintain flexibility, scalability and resilience.
The FCC’s recent Report and Order supporting Distributed Television Systems (DTS) is yet another reason for broadcasters to be excited about ATSC 3.0’s new revenue potential.
Cobalt Iron has been granted a US patent entitled “Data Protection Automatic Optimization System and Method” describing new capabilities for its Cobalt Iron Compass enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup platform.
BT Media and Broadcast has implemented orchestration and SDN control software for its central video exchange service, FacilityLine.
TV stations are great places to work, and talented technical people like the stability. The longer they work at a station, the more difficult they are to replace when they retire.
Broadpeak, a French provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming technology for content providers and pay TV operators, has announced the next generation of its BkYou ad personalization package.
InSync Technology has selected PHABRIX’s QxL 25G IP ST 2110 rasterizer for UHD SDI and IP video and audio signal generation and analysis. Since its inception in 2003, InSync has specialized in the development of highly efficient signal processing hardware and software products, with a focus on motion compensated frame rate and format conversion.
After years of trial and error designed to reduce operating cost and (more recently) keep crews safely distanced, remote production has found its niche in live production and will remain the de facto method for producing events over a distributed network infrastructure. However, a big hurdle left to overcome for successful deployment of such networked workflows is latency. In live production, video latency refers to the amount of time it takes for a single frame of video to transfer from the camera to a processing location (on premise or in the cloud) and back to the display—wherever that display might be.
