DIT Simone d’Arcangelo and colourist Anthony Raffaele used an ACES production workflow supported by a range of color tools from Filmlight to help create an iconic 1950’s look for Woody Allen’s new film, “Wonder Wheel”.
With the continued evolution of the TV industry, established operators are working to develop their winning strategy to defend their existing business, while tapping into the consumers’ love affair with SVOD and other services. By taking the user experience as the essential element for future business decisions, they will be a…
SMPTE’s publication of the first documents in the standard ST 2110 for professional media over managed networks goes beyond merely replacing serial digital interface (SDI) with IP to giving broadcasters the flexibility to devise a whole new set of applications based on, and leveraged off, IT protocols and infrastructure.
Everyone shopping for a 4K UHD television set these days is faced with the same question. What is high dynamic range, or HDR, should I buy it and what are the different flavors of it? What are the practical advantages? Here’s some guidance.
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 frames, frequencies used, and what the…
Live online video is booming worldwide, especially over mobile, but with big regional differences in drivers. The main factors in most cases are growing availability of OTT access to live sports and improved quality of service (QoS) over cellular networks. These factors are conspiring to boost consumption not just by…
Acoustic impedance is analogous to electrical impedance, and we all know that impedance matching is important in electronic systems. Here John Watkinson looks at the importance of acoustic impedance to loudspeaker design.
Advertising on OTT video services is growing explosively, accounting for 30% of all video ad spend by the end of 2017 compared with 8% 14 months earlier, according to data from video ad marketplace SpotX owned by German broadcaster RTL.
Television broadcasting has become more complex with the advent of OTT services. Playout is no longer the final point of quality control. CDN edge points, targeted ad-insertion, multi-language support, and event based channels require the expert scrutiny of broadcast engineers.
The widely held belief that SVOD (subscription VOD) services reduce piracy by making premium content readily available via a legal route has been challenged by an experiment conducted by a group of US and Portuguese academics.
