Waves: Part 6 - Wave Fronts March 1^st 2023 - 09:00 AM

Refraction is a topic that is at the heart of waves of all kinds. It affects the broadcaster in many ways, in lenses, optical fibers and in the way transmissions propagate.

Super Bowl LVII To Be Available In 4K UHD And Dolby Vision For The First Time February 10^th 2023 - 09:10 AM

Fox Sports is gearing up for its live coverage of Super Bowl LVII on February 12th, which will be the first NFL Super Bowl to be televised in 4K UHD. The game will be shot in High Dynamic Range (HDR) at 1080p and upconverted for broadcast in 4K and HD…

Compression: Part 5 - Motion Estimation February 9^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Motion estimation is one of the most important enabling technologies of video compression because it allows redundancy between pictures to be identified even in the presence of motion.

Artificial Inspiration – Debating The Implications Of Training AI To Create Images February 6^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

There is growing debate over the ethical and legal implications of using millions of images drawn from the internet to train AI powered software to create ‘new’ images. It feels like the beginning of a journey which could have profound implications for the creative industries – so it is perhaps predictable that …

Waves: Part 5 - Maintaining Climate Efficiency February 2^nd 2023 - 09:00 AM

Waves are an important topic, not least because all life on Earth depends upon them. The Earth depends totally on the radiation from the Sun, which is a ceaseless blast of energy spread over a vast range of wavelengths.

Ten Years Later: NBC Sports’ Stamford Facility Grows With The Times January 30^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

It was ten years ago, in the fall of 2012, that NBCUniversal opened a new international broadcast center in Stamford Connecticut, as the home for NBC Sports. It served as a way to consolidate its growing employee base and the production activities of a number of physical assets the network owned…

Capturing Nitin Sawhney’s Ghosts In The Ruins January 27^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

The 2022 City of Culture festival concluded with a performance created by Nitin Sawhney CBE. Filmed on the URSA Broadcast G2, an edited broadcast of Ghosts In The Ruins aired on the BBC.

The Compromises In Long Zoom Lenses Are Still There But Viewers See Fewer Of Them January 26^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Fox Sports’ broadcast of the 2022 Baseball World Series was a real eye-opener, and it wasn’t just because the Houston Astros handily defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. After all, for those in the know, the Astros were the heavily favored team so the outcome shouldn’t have been too s…

Spatial Audio: Part 2 - Approaches, Creation And Delivery January 13^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

In part one we looked at some of the reasons for the growth in adoption by next generation consumers, and how hardware and content production are combining to give more people better access to spatial content. Here we will look at some of the basics; how spatial audio is achieved,…

Compression: Part 4 - Introducing Motion Compensation January 12^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Here we introduce the different types of redundancy that can be located in moving pictures.