Broadcast Standards: The Principles, Terminology & Structure Of Cloud Compute Based Systems

Here we outline the principles, advantages, and various deployment models for cloud compute infrastructure, along with the taxonomy of cloud compute service providers and the relevant regulatory frameworks.

Live Sports Production: Broadcast Controllers & Orchestration In Live Sports Systems

As production infrastructure, processing resources and the underlying networks required become ever more complex, powerful tools are required to plan, deploy and monitor.

Managing The Transition From ATSC 1.0 To ATSC 3.0

As a timeline emerges for mandatory transition from ATSC 1.0 to 3.0, hundreds of stations across the US must now make structured plans to update, upgrade or replace existing transmission infrastructure. Heartland Video Systems assess the challenges and clarify the scale and scope of the work required.

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Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast: Monitoring The Media Supply Chain

Why monitoring the multi-format delivery ecosystem starts with a holistic approach to the entire media supply chain.

Fixing The Internet For Streaming

There seems little doubt that the consumer transition from OTA/DTT delivery towards streaming is on a steep growth curve, but what will the new ecosystem look like? Is internet infrastructure ready to handle the bandwidth demands of full-scale streaming?

VX – The Software Gateway To Compute Infrastructure

We talk to Andy Rayner, CTO at Appear about their new VX software and the vital next evolutionary steps for remote contribution and content distribution in software first, private or public ‘cloud’ infrastructure.

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IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 3 - Monitoring Your Remote Systems

Monitoring what is happening in a remote system depends on being able to ask for something to be checked and having the results reported back to you. There are many ways to do this. This article looks at some simple examples.

Embracing Interactivity In Live Streaming

Broadcasters are experimenting with, and starting to deploy, interactive streaming features, often AI-enhanced, to increase viewer engagement, with added personalization and more accurate ad targeting.

Broadcast Standards – Cloud Compute Infrastructure – Part 1

Welcome to Part 1 of Broadcast Standards – Cloud Compute Infrastructure. This collection of articles is the first in a new series which expands on the enormously popular ‘Broadcast Standards - The Book’ by Cliff Wootton. Over the coming months a series of Themed Content Collections will address specific aspects…

Live Sports Production: Sports Production Network Infrastructure

A discussion of production network infrastructure and where the industry is in the evolutionary journey from SDI to IP with senior system architects within three of the most respected organizations in broadcast.