Every year the NFL Super Bowl creates a level of excitement uncommon for most sporting events and this year’s event was no exception. The broadcast provided viewers with a dazzling Lady Gaga half-time show and the stunning and record-breaking, come from behind 34 – 28 win by Tom Brady and the New Eng…
The acronym “FUD” stands for “fear, uncertainty, and doubt”. FUD neatly describes the unsettled attitude of many Directors of Engineering (DOEs) towards the approaching double-whammy of the FCC’s Spectrum Repack, and the advent of ATSC 3.0 Over-the-Air (OTA) broadcasting.
The SD Association has announced UHS-III, a new standard doubling the fastest SD memory card transfer rate up to 624 megabytes per second (MB/s).
As the majority of loudspeaker drive units in use today are electromagnetic, John Watkinson thinks it appropriate to say something about the subject.
Ask some in our industry about Media Asset Management (MAM) and they either recoil in horror or simply roll their eyes. Even so, most will tell you that they can see the value, but their particular implementation hasn’t quite realised the expected workflow benefits.
It has long been an open secret in video production: great sound is far more important than the quality of the images. Surround, or even stereo audio, can dramatically improve an average quality picture on virtually any kind of programming — from news and documentary to feature films.
In the previous Cloud Broadcasting article, we looked at the differences between public and private clouds. In this article, we delve further into Cloud Born systems and define the business case for cloud computing.
Whenever doing a professional voice recording, de-essing — the reduction of excessive sibilant consonants — is often a persistent issue. There are many techniques to get rid of this offensive sound from recordings of the human voice.
In the last decade, there has been a significant shift what viewers like to see on their televisions with much of that content recorded as live reality style shows. Capturing such spontaneous content brings many challenges, but one of the biggest is managing the huge amounts of media created. Fortunately,…
The European Union has passed portability rules allowing cross border access to online services between all member states, which would give consumers ubiquitous access to content such as movies and live sports streams that they have paid for, wherever they are. The agreed measures await formal ratification by the two…
