The big news out of IBC this year was Hmmm, what a great question! Oh yeah, and at the very end of IBC, SMPTE ST 2110 parts 10, 20 and 30 were officially approved. What you ask? What about the rest of the standard or suite of standards? Don’t worry, they will be h…
It seems as time goes by, more audio interfaces come on the market. The choices are now more abundant than ever. Yet, finding the right interface for a given application is a far trickier issue.
Differing approaches to providing audio solutions are emerging in the broadcast world. Audio over IP is a given, but where to start and which vendors to choose are proving tough decisions to make, especially as the hardware investment can have a ten-year life expectancy. And moving from an analogue, MADI…
Over time, professional audio recording moved from large studios to homes and offices. Now, as electronics have become more miniature, pro audio has moved to a new location: the user’s pocket.
Although the loudspeaker business is dominated by moving coil transducers, the electrostatic loudspeaker has some advantages if used wisely. John Watkinson looks at this alternative technology.
If there’s one thing that became very apparent during the Mayweather-McGregor pay-per-view experience, it’s that delivering live streaming premium events to large-scale audiences is inherently difficult. And notoriously unpredictable.
Adobe’s TV Everywhere study shows that people are increasingly watching home television on TV Connected Devices (TVCD) as opposed to mobile devices. Mobile viewing is actually losing ground to TVCD viewing, say researchers.
The AES67 standard is sometimes misunderstood as the specifications on how all professional digital audio gear is supposed to work and interconnect. Not exactly. In fact, AES67 simply defines the requirements for high-performance AoIP (Audio-over-IP) interoperability. A manufacturer can implement AES67 anyway it wants, and there’s the rub.
As audio and video technology becomes more mobile, the size of high-quality digital audio components get ever more smaller and compact. A good example of this trend is the Tascam DR-10L, a $199.99 combo digital audio recorder and lavalier mic that’s so small it almost disappears.
Cloud technology is arguably one of the most significant topics of discussion in our industry right now. Broadcasters are starting to move big parts of their workflows to the cloud. Indeed, in a recent cloud video transformation survey, 14.5% of respondents say their content distribution workflow is now 100% cloud-based. A further 30.1%…
