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Streaming While Staying Sustainable - Next-Gen Compression For OTT February 14th 2018 - 11:00 AM

Over the past five years, the ways in which we choose to watch television have shifted dramatically. It wasn’t too long ago that live TV was the only option available to us. We had to make sure we were seated with the television on, at the time our favourite shows and movies were scheduled to be broadcast. If we didn’t, we simply missed them.

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The KRBK SFN transmitter site, 5 miles north of Halfway MO, is the one tower the station owns. The satellite dish is the STL.

Pros and Cons of a TV SFN in Market 75: Part 2 February 13th 2018 - 10:00 AM

The reliability of SFN transmitters is crucial. However, some SFN sites can be more crucial than others, such as the ones that cover where the most viewers and sponsors are located.

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Aperi partnered with Gearhouse to provide a fully-operational remote 4K test at UEFA Euro 2016.

IP and Software-based Broadcasting Infrastructures: Fact vs. Fiction February 12th 2018 - 11:00 AM

IP’s suitability for live broadcasting is no longer debatable. It’s been proven in a variety of real-world global deployments over the past several years. Even so, there’s lingering skepticism around IP and a surprising lack of understanding.

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Broadcast For IT - Part 5 - PAL Line and Frame Relationships February 9th 2018 - 09:00 AM

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 the last article we looked at the incredibly complex relationship between lines and frames for NTSC systems used in the USA. In this article we look at the systems used in the UK and Europe.

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The DaVinci Resolve suite at AlphaDogs

UHD Post-Creating UHD February 6th 2018 - 12:05 PM

AlphaDogs is one of the west coast’s premiere post houses, but even they find the prospect of creating UHD projects challenging.

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Is broadcast TV ready for hyper-local transmission?

Pros and Cons of a TV SFN in US Market 75: Part 1 February 5th 2018 - 09:00 AM

Interest in TV SFNs is growing because ATSC 3.0 is designed to leverage SFNs for maximum bandwidth, with Pearl and Sinclair scouting the trail to a new way of broadcasting. SFNs aren’t new. Springfield MO Fox affiliate KRBK has been operating a multi-transmitter ATSC 1.0 SFN for several years. How is 3.0 going to be different?

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Broadcast For IT - Part 4 - NTSC Line and Frame Relationships January 30th 2018 - 09:00 AM

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 American NTSC video lines and frames relate to each other, and the consequence for their digital derivatives prevalent throughout the world.

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Broadcast For IT - Part 3 - Video Lines January 22nd 2018 - 01:00 PM

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 the decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In this article we look at video lines, why we still need them, and how they relate to video frames.

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