Being faced with an IP and file-based broadcast environment can be daunting if you are not already an experienced Information Technology systems administrator. This series of articles will help you acquire the skills one-by-one to monitor and diagnose problems from the UNIX command line. Then you can build more sophisticated tools of your own to manage and automate your systems.
As we continue our dive into the new frontier of Interactive Rights we explore the first steps taken by an early adopter. Monumental Sports Network in Washington are far from implementing a complete portfolio of interactive enhancements to their broadcasts but their first steps have already added enhanced viewer experiences and improved revenue.
If we take cloud infrastructures to their extreme, that is, their physical locality is unknown to us, then monitoring them becomes a whole new ball game, especially as dispersed teams use them for production.
TV OSs have become pivotal to both smart TVs and streaming services as consumers continue to cut the cord. There is growing interest not just among TV makers but also major streaming and advertising platforms in neutral TV OSs independent of the underlying content, allowing them to impose their own business models. Philipps’ Titan OS, TiVo OS, Whale TV and US programmatic marketing and content delivery company The Trade Desk with Ventura, are among the new or impending players.
Heartland Video Systems (HVS), a premier video systems integration and consulting firm, announces that our ATSC 3.0 expert team has assisted New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) to optimize their existing ATSC 3.0 over-the-air (OTA) signal with Advanced Emergency Information (AEI) / Advanced Emergency Alert (AEA) capability. In addition, HVS supplied NMPBS the necessary equipment for the country’s very first ATSC 3.0 translator that works in conjunction with their existing ATSC 3.0 facility.
2025 may be a watershed year for the broadcast delivery switchover from DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) to IP (Internet Protocol). We know that an increasing number of viewers of broadcaster content are turning to their favorite streaming apps to watch the broadcaster’s VOD, live, and linear content. We also know that linear viewing of broadcaster content is declining. In 2025, events in Sweden may become a lead indicator for the future of DTT in Europe and around the world.
Here we look at the science of using a matched pair of microphones positioned as a coincident pair to capture stereo sound images.
Interra Systems, a provider of end-to-end quality assurance solutions for the digital media industry, announced that Norway’s public service broadcaster, NRK, is using BATON — Interra Systems’ AI/ML-enabled QC platform for audio and video — for checking finished edited programs and analyzing file sets that the company transcodes and publishes. NRK is a longtime user of BATON, and over the years, it has seen the solution evolve to accommodate customer feedback.
