The ATSC intends to develop test procedures to assure a quality ATSC 3.0 viewing experience and interoperability between Next-Gen receivers and broadcast content.
There is a lot of discussion about implementing facility-wide all IP infrastructures. Even so, there are good reasons why selecting hybrid SDI/IP video/audio over IP gear offers a smoother and more cost-effective transition to the all-IP future.
Facebook’s over statement of video consumption for the last two years has sparked fresh calls for independent measurement of viewing across all the major Internet platforms. It has also highlighted once again the challenges involved in conceiving a metric that fairly and accurately represents the relative value of views a…
Increasingly, flash cards are the storage media of choice for video recording. Though mostly reliable, a lot can go wrong with flash memory — most commonly human error in handling the media. An expert explains how to avoid catastrophic problems when using flash cards.
Is IT, the acronym for Information Technology, still meaningful when it comes to operating media networks?
The US-based Advanced Television Systems Committee standardized three more components of ATSC 3.0, the next-generation television system expected to transform the ability of broadcasters to deliver mobile, interactivity and higher quality content.
Sometimes technical managers and engineers get caught up in technology as though it exists by itself. It is important to remember all new solutions must be installed and maintained by humans—and that may require new skills.
There are several solutions for optimizing the distribution of multiscreen video. One method is by controlling the origin server, with respect to packaging and encoding. Another is to use local caches installed in the networks of operators that are either handling an important part of the content provider’s traffic o…
Delivering a major live event like the Olympics, a national political convention or the World Cup to your audience using mobile cellular transmitters and an IP-based network can be scary for even the most seasoned broadcaster. To help alleviate those fears, here is a list of best practices.
The compression of high-quality video has traditionally been a compute-intensive operation requiring dedicated hardware. But the steady progression in computational power of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment has enabled the gradual transition of some video processing operations to software-based environments. A software-based approach can offer significant flexibility and agility improvements over purpose-built…
