Once again in 2025 The Broadcast Bridge is proud to be the sole media partner for the BEIT Conference Sessions at NAB. They are not free, but the conference sessions are a unique opportunity to engage with very high quality in-person technical learning. Here is the first part of our summary of what is on the conference agenda this year – starting with events that happen Thurs through Sat before the show floor opens.
Appear will make a major impact at NAB Show 2025 through groundbreaking additions to its product portfolio. The highly anticipated X5 extends the X Platform’s power and efficiency into a compact, cost-effective form factor, while the VX Media Gateway is a key product launch in Appear’s software-based media processing evolution.
‘HDR & WCG For Broadcast – The Book’ is a multi-article exploration of the science and practical applications of all aspects of High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamut within broadcast production.
‘Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast’ explores how exemplary content production and delivery standards are maintained and legal obligations are met. The series includes four Themed Content Collections, each of which tackles a different area of the media supply chain.
Part 1 contains four articles which discuss considerations for monitoring networks and compute systems in multi-site and remote production systems, the role of file based monitoring in complex production workflows and our partner AlvaLinks discuss their tools for monitoring SRT streams.
‘Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast’ explores how exemplary content production and delivery standards are maintained and legal obligations are met. The series includes four Themed Content Collections, each of which tackles a different area of the media supply chain.
Our resident provocateur Dave Shapton speculates on the nature of compression and its potential future evolutionary path.
Once the basic requirements for reproducing sound were in place, the most significant next step was to reproduce to some extent the spatial attributes of sound. Stereophony, using two channels, was the first successful system.
Broadcast Standards – The Book is a unique reference resource for broadcast engineers, operators and system designers. Never before has such a huge body of broadcast industry specific information been collated from international standards bodies and distilled into a single source of data.
This free eBook took a whole year to create and draws on a wealth of personal research by author Cliff Wootton. It contains 26 chapters, 255 pages, over 65,000 words and references another 19 Appendix articles online.
