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Proliferation of 5G-NR mobile services will shake up media supply chains over the next five years. Image courtesy of Intel.

Designing Media Supply Chains: Part 1 – Evolution, Disruption & Predicting The Future July 14th 2022 - 09:30 AM

We begin a new series of articles exploring things to consider when designing systems for the rapidly evolving world of The Media Supply Chain. We start with a look at the landscape of disruptive change, growth and the impact of migration to the cloud and 5G Broadcast.

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Vendor Spotlight: Telestream July 8th 2022 - 11:00 AM

Telestream, based in Nevada City, Calif. (with additional offices in Westwood, Mass,), is a privately held company that supports customers around the world in the Broadcast, Professional Video Production, Education, Corporate and Military market segments. The company is celebrating its 25th year in business in 2022, offering relevant products, systems and services that stretch from “glass to glass.”

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Information: Part 4 - Data Rates July 7th 2022 - 09:30 AM

In an increasingly digital world, it may be useful to look at the amount of data needed to represent various media. Note that the amount of data is being considered; the amount of information will always be somewhat less than that.

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Electricity: Part 4 - Solar Panels July 6th 2022 - 11:00 AM

Solar Panels, or photo-voltaics (PV), have their uses, but they also have their drawbacks.

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Transforms: Part 6 - The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) July 1st 2022 - 09:00 AM

The Fourier Transform is complex in the mathematical sense, which means that each coefficient is represented by complex number.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Working In The Cloud – Productivity Is Always The Key June 30th 2022 - 09:00 AM

We’ve encountered media companies along all aspects of migrating their workflows to the cloud. Some with large on-premises media processing capabilities are just beginning to design their path, while others have transformed some of their workflows to be cloud-native, and still, others are all in – meaning all their media files reside in the cloud and are processed there.

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HDR: Part 4 - Surviving Modern Colorimetry June 29th 2022 - 09:55 AM

Most people are aware that any color can be mixed from red, green and blue light, and we make color pictures out of red, green and blue images. The relationship between modern color imaging and the human visual system was recently discussed by John Watkinson in his series on color. In this piece, we’re going to look at something that comes up often in modern film and TV technique: color gamuts. It’s a term that suffers a lot of misuse, but the basics are simple: a color image uses red, green and blue, and the gamut describes which red, which green, and which blue we’re using.

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Birmingham 2022 will be the biggest sports event in the UK since London 2012.

Preparing To Broadcast ​Commonwealth Games Birmingham June 27th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The 2022 Commonwealth Games will be the biggest sports event on UK shores since London 2012 with around 1.5 billion global audience expected to watch over the 11 day event beginning July 28. Bidding for the host broadcast contract began in summer of 2019 with the award announced for Sunset + Vine in April 2020. Here’s what S+V plan with a special focus on one of its OB partners, Gravity Media.

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