For fans attending the 2019 U.S. Open tennis tournament, it has become more than just watching the matches. It’s become a festive atmosphere outside the tennis venues, complete with food and sponsor booths that offer varying types of entertainment.
Sweden’s Modern Times Group (MTG) has taken the next step towards becoming a major global esports player by setting up a joint venture with leading Chinese platform for competitive gaming, Huya.
Serendipity — the unplanned random discovery of things of interest — is disappearing in the age of the internet. As the novelty of web surfing wears off, old human habits return. Today, most of us are spending more time on fewer and fewer web sites though greater variety exists.
Most people are aware that any color can be mixed from red, green and blue light, and we make color pictures out of red, green and blue images. The relationship between modern color imaging and the human visual system was recently discussed by John Watkinson in his series on color.…
In the previous articles in this series we looked at advanced server security and out-of-band monitoring and control, especially with security validation of peripheral device firmware. In this article, we investigate virtualization further and its benefits for building secure broadcast infrastructures.
Sound Devices has upgraded its MixPre line of portable audio mixer/recorders and Zoom will soon deliver its F6 mixer/recorder. Both have a revolutionary new feature: so much headroom that it no longer matters where the gain level is set during recording. Both explosive high and quiet volume signals…
In this thought-provoking missive, Gary Olson delivers his predictions and insights for IBC 2019.
There’s a reason you don’t meet many retired transmitter engineers. It’s the same reason stations prefer miles between studios and towers.
In the previous article in this series we looked at advanced server security and how the controller within a hard disk drive or SSD can be vulnerable to hacking even with the most advanced firewalls and anti-virus software. In this article, we delve deeper into the remedies and how Lights…
Like many critical professional equipment categories, live production switchers (“vision mixers” to many overseas) have undergone a transformation based largely around the implementation of software-defined features and multi-layered capabilities that allow the operator to do more. When EVS introduced its Dyvi switcher in 2017, it boasted a software-defined architecture - basically a s…
