At the start of 2013, BCE at RTL City was a hole in Luxembourg’s ground and in less than four years they were on air broadcasting 35 different channels across Europe and Singapore. Costas Colombus is BCE’s Technology Projects and Support Director and gave The Broadcast Bridge a unique insight into how they made this mammoth installation work, including describing the issues and how they overcame them along the way.
In this series of articles, we will explain broadcasting for IT engineers. Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and todays broadcast formats are heavily dependent on decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and in this article, we look at color space and its relevance to broadcasting.
Tape storage has been around for decades. One would think any technology of such age would be obsolete and antiquated, or coming to the end of its roadmap. Contrary to that, tape has seen a breath of new life as its use cases have greatly expanded beyond its past deployment – and is now integral to today’s modern workflows.
While it’s clear that High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is superior in compression performance to its AVC predecessor codec format, getting the essential patent holders of the standard to agree on royalty terms for use has proved to be far more complicated. This, in turn, has led to delayed deployments among many content distributors that fear a financial hardship could be assessed if royalties are not properly paid.
Developments in compression technology have moved on at pace and encompass a new codec for production of UHD - JPEG XS, and a broader scheme designed to create standards basis for immersive media – MPEG-I. Tony Jones, Principle Technologist, Ericsson Media Solutions walks us through the differences and how the two intersect.
To fully leverage the benefits of IP networks we need to think in IT terms. Just replacing the acronym MADI or AES with IP is insufficient as all we end up with is a very complex, poorly utilized, static network.
Network routing is a phrase that is bandied about broadcast forums liberally. But what exactly does it mean to route an IP datagram? And why is it important for broadcast and radio stations?
Video consumption is changing with increased demand for video content anytime, anywhere, on any screen. As broadcasters and pay-TV operators look to deliver more content, including live, VOD, catch-up TV and start-over TV, to subscribers on a wide range of devices, being agile is becoming progressively more important.
