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Making Remote Mainstream:  Part 1 - Understanding The Benefits March 25th 2020 - 12:05 PM

Recent international events have overtaken normality causing us to take an even closer look at how we make television. Physical isolation is greatly accelerating our interest in Remote Production, REMI and At-Home working, and this is more important now than it ever has been.

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Streaming video now accounts for two thirds of all mobile data.

Mobile Video Streaming Traffic Growth Below Earlier Expectations March 24th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Mobile video consumption continues to rise fast but the total traffic generated is growing more slowly than earlier predictions made a few years ago.

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Audio Levels - Part 1 March 23rd 2020 - 01:00 PM

Superficially, level seems to be a simple subject: just a reading on a meter. In practice, there’s a lot more to it. Level matters because if it is wrong, sound quality can suffer, things can get damaged or cause interference and listeners complain because they have to keep adjusting the volume.

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TV ratings and results depend on a fickle audience one twitch away from virtually walking out.

The V In TV Stands For Viewers March 23rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

What’s the difference between a video and TV? A video without an audience is still a video. TV without an audience is a disaster.

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NAB 2020 Will Not Be Rescheduled; NAB Express To Begin Online in April March 20th 2020 - 06:00 PM

NAB 2020 will not be rescheduled this year, the NAB has announced. Instead, the organization will begin NAB Express in April, an online initiative, and will enhance the NAB Show New York at the end of the year with additional programs and expanded participation.

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Lead author Venkat Arun in front of the RFocus smart surface prototype. Photo by Jason Dorfman, MIT.

RF Signals May Get Major Boost From MIT’s New “Smart Surface” Technology March 20th 2020 - 01:00 PM

MIT researchers have developed RFocus “smart surface” antenna technology that can work as both a mirror and a lens to increase the strength of WiFi signals or 5G cellular networks by ten times.

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The EBU’s Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) conducted vulnerability scans in August 2019 at Wuppertal in Germany.

Broadcasters Fail To Address Common Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities March 19th 2020 - 01:00 PM

Broadcasters are falling prey to common cybersecurity vulnerabilities as some struggle to adjust to the migration away from traditional dedicated systems to generic infrastructures based on the IP protocol, more like enterprises in other sectors.

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Large numbers of devices such as tablets can cooperate in peer-assisted video delivery to take load off CDNs and central servers.

European Consumers Will Pay For Legitimate Stream Sharing March 18th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Hopes that casual sharing of passwords among friends and family by subscribers to streaming services can be converted to legitimate paying has been boosted by a survey of European consumers.

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