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From the earliest public radio transmissions in the 1920s to 4K television of today, broadcasters have been working to continually deliver and improve the immersive experience. Television broadcasting has gone from black and white, to color, then HD and 4K, with massive improvements in audio all building on previous technologies to encourage viewer engagement and get closer to the event. The last hundred years, with all the technological advances in television, has taught broadcasters that viewers always want more.
Part 2 of The Big Guide To OTT is a set of three articles which dig into the key issues of OTT content origination, the unique demands of OTT content storage, and the role of CDN selection in achieving broadcast grade streaming.
China and Russia have back-up GPS systems. The USA has no GPS backup, although politicians have been talking about the need for 20 years. ATSC 3.0 stations have the hardware in place to provide nationwide backup. The US Department of Transportation is responsible for GPS. If The Office of Transportation Policy (TRA/OTP) develops and coordinates an ATSC 3.0 GPS backup policy, work and funding can begin. With planning and coordination, ATSC 3.0 broadcasters are positioned to be the future GPS backup in the USA.
Now we turn to Spatial Compression, which takes place within individual images and takes no account of other images.
The Blackmagic 2110 IP Converter 3x3G is a new rack mount converter which converts 3G-SDI devices to 2110 IP broadcast systems. The new Blackmagic 2110 IP Converter 3x3G features 10G Ethernet which means it can support up to 3 separate 3G-SDI video channels at the same time. Each channel has independent inputs and outputs, for connecting up to 6 different SDI devices. Blackmagic 2110 IP Converter 3x3G includes an elegant front panel with a color LCD for monitoring, menus and diagnostics.
Correctly applied zero trust security methods stop intruders from entering networks and computing systems at all entry points within the infrastructure. And to help broadcasters understand security vulnerabilities further, organizations such as CVE are there to help.
Quince Imaging, provider of high-resolution holographic displays and visually stunning esports events, has deployed multiple MediorNet FusioN 6B edge devices and a VirtU 48-S IP core infrastructure platform for one of its latest high-profile esports projects.
When are you going to virtualize? A common question to vendors. Let us pull apart that question. What does it mean in a media industry context? How do you virtualize live production with today’s computers and software? In this paper, we will start by listing the advantages that virtualization brings and discuss how to benefit from these. Through a newsroom case study, we will summarize the tools available to us and state-of-the-art techniques in software development. What can we learn from other industries? Finally, we will put this all together and introduce a framework suitable for distributed, low-latency, high-quality live production.
