Welcome to Part 1 of ‘HDR & WCG For Broadcast’ - a major 10 article exploration of the science and practical applications of all aspects of High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamut for broadcast production. Part 1 is a trio of articles which lay out the fundamental principles of brightness & color and the implications of increasing dynamic range and color gamut in broadcast production workflows.
Mediaproxy already plays a central role in TV distribution with its LogServer compliance monitoring system and is now pushing into media data aggregation and orchestration through a growing technical partnership with Skyline Communications, developer of the DataMiner transformation platform.
At IBC 2024, Simplestream is demonstrating new features and enhancements to its Channel Studio and Livestream Scheduler products, allowing world-class broadcasters, sport organisations and content owners to create new avenues for monetisation, greater audience engagement and increased live viewing figures.
OTT operators need heightened awareness of how to manage the threat of piracy. But OTT also offers a promise: with the right legal framework, the available technical solutions could bring video piracy to dramatically lower levels.
As we described in Q1 2024, TV audiences are moving online, quickly. It’s only a question of time before the majority of TV audiences served, and therefore TV revenues earned, will be on streaming platforms. But, in this transition, there are significant risks to brand and revenue for broadcasters. A significant contributor is the “internet’s weather”.
France Télévisions to provide exclusive coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games surfing competition with Haivision’s private 5G video transmission ecosystem.
Metadata is increasingly used to automate media management, from creation and acquisition to increasingly granular delivery channels and everything in-between. There’s nothing much new about metadata—it predated digital media by decades—but it is poised to become pivotal in broadcast technology’s current phase of rapid evolution.
Appear has been selected by BH Telecom to enhance the live channel processing software for its Moja TV service. The project encompasses the provision and integration of an advanced IPTV transcoding and multiplexing platform that offers BH Telecom considerable cost and efficiency savings.
