In previous articles, John Watkinson argued that the concept of static resolution has been shown not to be a useful metric for moving pictures. In short, pretending that some quality of a still image tells anything about motion is absurd, and leads to flawed ideas like high line or pixel…
Professionals working in live entertainment, sports and news are challenged with capturing, preparing and distributing content in the fastest, most efficient way possible. They also must handle the explosion of new content formats and rising media standards like 4K. Implementing an effective media asset management (MAM) platform that can handle…
Television broadcasters worldwide are finally migrating away from proprietary, hardware-based workflows and towards all-IT, software-based production environments, and for good reason. Running on commodity hardware, software solutions are the key to new workflow efficiencies, reduced OPEX and CAPEX, less dependence on specialized technical staff, and the flexibility to deliver more…
Europe’s TV standards body DVB has taken a further step towards Ultra HD TV (UHD) commercial deployment by approving UHD-1 Phase 2 at a recent meeting of its Steering Board. This second phase of the UHD commercial requirements adds support for HDR (High Dynamic Range) and Higher Frame Rate (HFR).
When it comes to capturing aerial shots, nothing can beat a drone flown by an experienced pilot working along side a good photographer. Newbies to the technology benefit from learning by those already up-to-speed. Read on.
With hundreds of thousands of hobbyist drones expected to arrive as gifts this holiday season, the race is on to put some kind of regulation in place to mitigate the rising number of near miss air incidents recorded this year.
Security concerns dominate the discussion of adoption of cloud infrastructure in the Broadcast, Media and Entertainment space. The picture of a petulant executive declaring “I am not putting my content in the cloud!” stops many technical managers from a true investigation of the benefits and drawbacks for extending operations into clo…
ATSC 3.0 and UHD are on a collision course with the set makers and retailers pushing UHD. But broadcasting UHD in ATSC 3.0 could require the bandwidth many stations now use to generate additional revenue over their sub channels. Add to that, OTA broadcasters face the upcoming questions surrounding the spectrum auction—…
This holiday season will see a buying frenzy of UHD-4K televisions. But, where is the content for these high-rez screens?
In this Part 2 of the series, the author reviews best practices and tools needed to measure consumer’s QoE.
