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Transforms: Part 5 - OFDM June 3rd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Thus far we have looked at transforms from a somewhat abstract viewpoint. In contrast, here we look at an application where transforms take center stage.

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In functions within the Sinclair App, program content is squeezed and overlays a html page that can be updated live. Courtesy NAB.

The Evolving Landscape Of NextGen TV At The NAB 22 BEIT Sessions June 2nd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Broadcasters are experimenting with many new TV business models to monetize new NextGen TV technologies.

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Essential Guide: Productive Cloud Workflows June 1st 2022 - 09:30 AM

It’s quite incredible to think that real time broadcast signal workflows are now actively encouraging software processing. It wasn’t so long ago that video images had to be processed in hardware to meet the tight timing constraints that live video processing demands.

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Caption: Utelly’s offices are in Ilford, UK.  By John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12908996

Synamedia Buys Utelly For Aggregated Content Discovery Across Streaming Services May 31st 2022 - 09:00 AM

Synamedia, the London-headquartered video services and technology company spun out of Cisco in 2018, has acquired UK content discovery firm Utelly to beef up its offering for aggregated search, navigation, and recommendation.

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Electricity: Part 3 - AC Systems May 27th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Here we look at alternating current (AC) systems and how generating AC often requires an intermediate step of converting to DC to improve the efficiencies of AC generators.

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Broadcaster D2C Requirements For The 2020s - Part 2 May 24th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The first part of this article explained the set of requirements that appear in the most modern OTT Services from broadcasters launching their own App-based services in the 2020s. Here we inspect those requirements in the two broad areas of Content Monetization and Content Delivery.

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Information: Part 2 - Gaussian Distribution May 23rd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Information can never be separated from its nemesis, which is uncertainty. The former is only possible by limiting the latter.

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Live streaming will account for more viewing than ever before at the 2022 US Open Gold championships, especially across mobile platforms.

US Open Golf Puts Spotlight On Latency And Scale For Live Streaming May 20th 2022 - 09:30 AM

Every big global sporting event exerts stress on streaming infrastructures and challenges providers to deliver further improvements in the viewing experience as demand and traffic levels go on increasing. The 2022 US Open Golf Championship in Brookline, Massachusetts, is particularly under the spotlight as the world’s third golf major of the year, brooking comparisons with coverage of the first two already completed.

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