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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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Notre Dame stadium.  Photo credit Andy Fuller.

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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Creative Analysis: Part 9 - Cinematographer Cathal Watters On Alienist: Angel Of Darkness October 19th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Recreating a period New York in Hungary might seem an unreasonable challenge until it becomes clear that the country has become a hub for international production with at least two large-scale backlots for just that purpose. In the summer of 2019, these facilities were leveraged by The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, based on Caleb Carr’s book of the same name. Produced for TNT by a consortium led by Paramount Television, the series stars Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning and Luke Evans as a group investigating a serial killer in 1890s New York. Cinematography on the first season by P. J. Dillon, ISC, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy, leaving Cathal Watters, ISC, with big shoes to fill on the second.

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Digital Audio: Part 4 - ADC’s & The Mathematics Of Quantization & Dither October 15th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Digital audio relies completely on the accuracy of quantization and it is important to see how it works.

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Virtual IBC struggled to recapture the clamor of its previous real auditoriums.

IBC 2020 Conspicuous By Its Low Impact October 14th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Now that the virtual IBC 2020 has passed with hardly a whimper on the world broadcasting stage, paradoxically vendors, service providers and content producers are counting the indirect cost of the real event’s absence.

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MediorNet MicroN nodes in Riedel’s IP Laboratory.

The Sponsors Perspective: Manage Standardized Connections For Essences/Network Flows - ST2110/AES67 October 13th 2020 - 09:00 AM

With the release of the core parts of the SMPTE ST 2110 suite, the confusion around different transport standards for audio and video over IP is settled. However, the adoption of these solutions for day-to-day use is still far from easy. While there are more and more pure IP facilities and OB trucks now in service, they take significant time to set up and are only practical when a single vendor interface is used.

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Popular TV Shows like ABC’s “The View” now shoot with no audiences and lots of safety procedures to adjust to.

TV Production Resumes, With Strict Protocols In Place October 9th 2020 - 09:00 AM

As TV and movie production studios begin to slowly resume operations, they are doing so very carefully and with a number of government-mandated protocols for safe working in place. Some say these operational restrictions—limited crew, remote control when possible, non-essential personnel are not allowed—are significantly adding to the time it typically would take to complete a project. For starters, all shared equipment, microphones, and other TV production tools must be disinfected after each use.

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Creative Analysis: Part 8 - Making A Name By Cinematographer Li Qihang October 7th 2020 - 09:00 AM

With the population of China approaching 1.4 billion, it’s perhaps no surprise that it is fast becoming the biggest market in the world for theatrical film exhibition, with the largest number of cinema screens of any single country. Directors such as Wong Kar-Wai and the stars of Chinese cinema – names like Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi – have long been enjoying international attention, but the grass roots of Chinese film and (particularly) TV production are less often encountered outside the country.

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