Understanding IP Broadcast Production Networks: Part 2 - Routers & Switches May 30^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

How Routers & Switches reduce traffic congestion and improve security.

The Peril Of HDR: Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should May 29^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

There is a disturbing and growing consensus among viewers that many movies and TV shows today are under illuminated or simply too dark. As DOPs, we surely share some of the blame, but there is plenty of blame to go around.

Waves: Part 9 - Propagation Inversion May 25^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

As a child I came under two powerful influences. The first of these was electricity. My father was the chief electrician at a chemical works and he would bring home any broken or redundant electrical parts for me to tinker with, dismantle and occasionally repair.

Understanding IP Broadcast Production Networks: Part 1 - Basic Principles Of IP May 23^rd 2023 - 09:00 AM

This is the first of a series of 14 articles that re-visit the basic building blocks of knowledge required to understand how IP networks actually work in the context of broadcast production systems.

Compression: Part 8 - Spatial Compression May 3^rd 2023 - 09:00 AM

Now we turn to Spatial Compression, which takes place within individual images and takes no account of other images.

Waves: Part 8 - Shock Waves April 26^th 2023 - 10:00 AM

Shock waves are interesting phenomena that take place in a number of different media. For an arcane physical process, they have done quite well to be adopted by the mainstream media as one of their clichés, along with Mae West life jackets and aircraft black boxes (which are orange).

Motion Pictures: Part 1 - Film Frame Rates April 18^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

It seems clear that there is such a thing as the “film look”. But how did it come about?

At NAB 2023, Image Capture And Processing Are Keys To First-Rate Video Delivery April 15^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

With the multitude of distribution and contribution outlets that must be supported across today’s media landscape broadcasters are looking for tools and systems that help them acquire the best images as well as signal processing technology to ensure it stays that way. At the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas, e…

Audio At The 2023 NAB Show - IP, Remote Production, Immersive Sound And Deja Vu April 11^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

If it feels like we’ve been talking about AoIP for the last 10 years, there’s a good reason for that; we have. IP has been a focus for broadcasters for so long that there are actual grown-ups working in the industry who don’t know of a time before IP wa…

Compression: Part 7 - Macro Blocks April 5^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Here we continue the story of motion compensated compression using macroblocks.