Amidst swirling competition and a need for new revenue, radio personalities have expanded their audiences and their reach by installing video cameras in their studios and broadcasting from remote sites related to their genre’s scope. This has been particularly true of sports talk radio shows, which use major sporting and entertainment events to draw their listeners in. They have also invested heavily in live remotes to attract attention.
The broadcast industry is on the cusp of a new era with the launch of ATSC 3.0 This flexible platform supports multiple types of encoding, which can result in viewers always getting the best available signal over a variety of reception conditions.
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. In this article we look at how to represent time in 59.94i frame systems such as those based on the American NTSC systems.
The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Teleport Opportunities 2018, a new research report surveying teleport executives on market opportunities and obstacles to growth, investment, hiring and technology plans.
In this age of environmental consciousness, many companies often claim to be “eco-friendly” and concerned about the future of our planet, but it winds up being marketing slogan and little more.
If you’re like me, making sense of evolving computer standards like Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C is confusing. These standards seem to change often and sometimes when plugging things in that ought to work, they don’t work at all. It’s all in the details. Here’s an overview of where we stand.
If UHD is going to become a mainstream broadcast medium, we’ll need to be able to monitor, edit and review it. But can we?
With ATSC 3.0 poised to change the broadcast industry’s basic signal, we need to understand this signal is poised between HD and true 4K.
