Moving OTT and IPTV operations onto IP-centric solutions and platforms is both complex and fraught with the chance of error. Survival requires that facility managers and engineers at broadcasters learn to swim in the IP pool. Don’t be afraid to seek help.
For those who began work in the audio industry before the 1980s, the experience of “going digital” is clearly remembered. Many of us questioned everything we knew and wondered whether all the experience we had gained in the analog era would carry forward. Fortunately, in hindsight, that experience paid off and…
John Watkinson looks at how crossover networks don’t work.
In the previous articles, we investigated IP from a broadcast engineers point of view as it helps us understand IP. In this article, we start to look at audio integration, and how we make IP work with audio signals, and the challenges we need to overcome.
As recording has gradually moved away from large studios to small spaces, the difficulty to getting a big “live” sound has become more difficult to achieve. There are, however, some tricks that allow the expansion of small rooms to sound much bigger than ever expected.
Some engineers can maintain their current SDI systems armed with little more than a foggy memory of how things are interconnected. But with IP networks, such a philosophy guarantees panic if something fails. When it comes to properly documenting an IP network, ignore this task at your peril.
The importance of data for the media and entertainment industry was front and center at this year’s NAB conference in Las Vegas. The theme even sparked a news article headline, “Content is King but Data is Heir to the Throne.”
The stars are aligning for a new era of immersive audio in storytelling. Audiobook sales are steadily growing, the popularity of non-musical audio in personal podcasts is exploding and immersive audio technology is making compelling audio cheaper and easier to produce.
The HPA Retreat took place in February in Palm Springs, CA. Part 1 of this two-part series can be found in the link at the end of this article.
An Iris-free lens? This revolutionary technology will be here soon. But what will it mean to shooters and videographers and the images they capture?
