In Part 1 we looked at how TDM provides a compromise to deliver the flexibility and scalability of IP, while at the same time providing the ease of use of SDI. In this article, we look at how TDM deals with latency and frame accurate timing.
Global supply chain issues continue to strangle the broadcast manufacturing industry with the issue likely to get worse before it stabilizes. An alarming 86% of broadcast industry suppliers categorise the impact as moderate or severe on their financial sustainability if conditions persist for another year.
It is a clear-cut requirement of IP infrastructures that all signal flows need to be conducted via an IT switch, or network of switches, providing an architecture that allows a virtually anything-to-everything routing environment.
Here we dip a toe into spectrum analysis. The water’s warm.
With help from their U.S. counterparts at Sinclair Broadcasting Group (SBG), the second-largest television station operator in the U.S., South Korean broadcasters are working on a terrestrial ultra-high-definition (UHD) 4K broadcasting network to be deployed in 2023. It’s all part of a state project that is being funded by SK Telecom, a top mobile carrier in Seoul, and supported by Cast.era, a joint venture between the Korean mobile carrier and Sinclair.
For decades, a television studio’s production team has been no further from the action than a cable can comfortably be run.
Formula One has enjoyed decades of being one of the world’s most popular sports, with millions of fans making up a diverse and passionate community of TV viewers. Now it’s being considered the fastest growing sport brand on social media platforms too.
On the morning of March 9th, Bill Macbeth, Chief Engineer at local Fox affiliate KBSI hit the switch on the station’s Rohde & Schwarz THU9evo liquid-cooled UHF transmitter and, in a video posted on social media, uttered the words: “Transmitter is on, we are making power.” Just like that, they were broadcasting a new NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) signal over the air to its audience in Southeastern Missouri, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois.
