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The Sponsors Perspective: Monitoring Immersive Audio November 2nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Genelec Senior Technologist Thomas Lund starts down the road to ideal monitoring for immersive audio by looking at what is real, and how that could or should be translated for the listener.

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AI Based & GPU Accelerated Compression & Image Processing Are Igniting Video’s Afterburner October 30th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The impact of AI on videoconferencing bandwidth reduction couldn’t be accelerating at a more opportune time.

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Fragmented support from browser and device makers is holding back advanced new codecs, according to Bitmovin.

H.264 Still Dominates Video Coding October 28th 2020 - 09:00 AM

H.264 continues to dominate the video codec field, accounting for 91% of all usage by participants, despite all the hype around newer more advanced codecs such as H.265 and AV1.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Effectively Using The Power Of Immersive Audio October 27th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Lawo’s Christian Scheck takes a tour of console functions and features that have a special place in immersive audio production, and how they are developing.

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The new Microsoft Video Authenticator rates videos with a percentage chance that the content has been artificially manipulated.

Protecting Newsrooms And Viewers From Deepfake Videos October 26th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the age of eager reporters surfing the internet for scandalous scoops, who is helping defend TV station newsrooms by detecting and tagging fake pictures and videos before they air, and how are they doing it? Hint: It’s not ‘golden eyes’ or government regulators.

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HDR: Part 15 - Using Vintage Stills Lenses For Digital Cinematography October 23rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the mid-70s, Canon released the K35 series of primes, based on its then top-of-the-line FD mount stills lenses. It wasn’t the first or last time a set of glass elements designed for stills had been repackaged for movie work, but the K35s won an Academy Award in 1977 and have since amassed a glittering resume including Barry Lyndon, Aliens and American Hustle and many others.

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Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 5 - Processing Gamma Corrected Signals October 22nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

It is unwise to pretend that gamma corrected signals can successfully be multiplied, added and subtracted in a matrix as if they represented linear light. Yet in television it is done all the time.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Notre Dame’s IP-Based Campus Crossroads Project October 20th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today, a single cable can deliver every signal to any endpoint in real time, and with outstanding quality, and robustness.

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