In this series of articles, we will explain broadcasting for IT engineers. Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and todays broadcast formats are heavily dependent on decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In this article we start to look at the human visual system and color temperature.
The number of mobile phone video viewers in the United States is expected to reach almost 170 million this year. An additional 10 million may be added by 2020. With such large and increasing audiences, broadcasters are eager to serve these viewers. As streaming live over LTE networks becomes increasingly common, operators that are prepared by using multicast ABR will be the long-term winners.
The broadcast industry is on the cusp of a new era with the launch of ATSC 3.0 This flexible platform supports multiple types of encoding, which can result in viewers always getting the best available signal over a variety of reception conditions.
In this series of articles, we will explain broadcasting for IT engineers. Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and todays broadcast formats are heavily dependent on decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In this article we look at how to represent time in 59.94i frame systems such as those based on the American NTSC systems.
If UHD is going to become a mainstream broadcast medium, we’ll need to be able to monitor, edit and review it. But can we?
With ATSC 3.0 poised to change the broadcast industry’s basic signal, we need to understand this signal is poised between HD and true 4K.
Over the past five years, the ways in which we choose to watch television have shifted dramatically. It wasn’t too long ago that live TV was the only option available to us. We had to make sure we were seated with the television on, at the time our favourite shows and movies were scheduled to be broadcast. If we didn’t, we simply missed them.
The reliability of SFN transmitters is crucial. However, some SFN sites can be more crucial than others, such as the ones that cover where the most viewers and sponsors are located.
