This holiday season will see a buying frenzy of UHD-4K televisions. But, where is the content for these high-rez screens?
In this Part 2 of the series, the author reviews best practices and tools needed to measure consumer’s QoE.
It is all very well being able to quantify the volume of a signal, however, what is important is how loud it is perceived to be.
Europe needs a unified approach to regulating hybrid mobile services combining satellite and ground based components, according to a recent white paper from satellite fleet owner and services provider EchoStar. The key issue is wide variation between some European Union (EU) member states over licensing regimes covering the complementary ground component (CGC) operating in the same frequencies as S-band Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) within common hybrid services.
The NASA TV channel, partially owned and powered by the latest compression technology from Harmonic and featuring programming captured and distributed in pristine UHD (2160p60) resolution, has become the first such channel available to consumers in North America. Only those with UHD-compatible televisions can view the full beauty of the breathtaking images from outer space.
Live TV field production of one-off sports events is an open invitation for surprises of all kinds. The show must go on and it’s the worst possible time for drama. It’s a good fit for passionate engineers who thrive on winning and enjoy alternating bursts of despair and adrenaline. The more adrenaline a field sports production generates, the greater the thrill. Like a magic act, the trick is keeping production secrets hidden from view.
When we look at the various TV packages available today, the vast majority of pay-TV service providers are failing to maximize the amount of data that can be attributed to all the content that is watched by viewers. Yet, in an era where personalization will be one of the biggest drivers towards purchased consumer content, the television industry has far wider scope to maximize the possibilities associated with big data. Ericsson’s Warren Chaisatien argues that pay TV operators are failing to exploit the data they have.
A White Paper from Media Links
Huge quantities of ink and pixels have been spent extolling the virtues of an all-IP infrastructure for a modern media production facility such as a broadcast studio or and IPTV head-end. Today, Media Links is one of the only companies in the world that has successfully installed complete, IP-based studio systems for global clients. By integrating all of the video, audio and data flows onto a common platform, huge up-front savings and continuing cost reductions can be realized.
The primary advantage of an IP-based system is the convergence of multiple signal formats onto a comprehensive, distributed IP switch fabric that seamlessly transports kilobit-speed data signals alongside multigigabit uncompressed video flows. Media production facilities benefit by not having to purchase, install, manage, or maintain the multiple signal routing systems that are normally required to switch different types of compressed and uncompressed audio. A converged IP backbone dramatically increases system flexibility, allowing new applications, bit rates, and signal formats to be added to the core switching platform merely by adding a new type of interface card.
