Like everything else in today’s economy, video rental and service companies — especially those based in New York City or Los Angeles — have moved from being small niche businesses into major global conglomerates with a who’s who of major media clients.
Knowledge Network—British Columbia’s public broadcaster based in Burnaby, Canada—offers commercial-free creative documentaries, arts and culture, drama and children’s programs from Canada and around the world. The network operates a main HD channel, a separate SD channel as well as BBC Kids, a national children’s specialty channel r…
Part 1 of this article covered multiple aspects of compression technology: macroblocks, DCT, quantization, and lossless compression. Part 2 will focus on motion estimation for P- and B-frames—after a review of lossless data compacting. Part 3 (next month) will detail the critical role of Predicted frames and Difference frames in maintaining image q…
When most professionals think of copper or fiber optic cable for broadcast, studio, mobile units and computer technology, many think first of a trusted brand they know — mainly because they have learned to depend on it and feel cable is a mature, staple product.
Over the last ten years, an industry that was mostly hardware based has been successfully transitioning to an IT world, bringing about huge change to technical workflows and business practices, and thereby enabling content owners to transition from tape to digital. In the past five years, we’ve developed a m…
Improving accessibility of content through Video Description.
The accessibility of media to partially sighted audiences may be enhanced by provision of additional information in the form of audio narrative track. An audio description of the video content is called “audio description” or “video description” in country-dependent nomenclature.
Traditionally, a trained ‘describer…
Industry consultant and The Broadcast Bridge writer, Gary Olson, has released an in-depth tutorial book, Planning and Designing the IP Broadcast Facility, designed to help engineers and technical managers transition their facilities into the world of computer-based technology and file-based workflows.
Leading rental company upgrades 115 EVS production server fleet to latest XFile3 software with 10GbE connectivity.
DSLR cameras get smaller, lighter and more powerful.
Headphones continue to be an important tool for accurate audio monitoring.
