A Strong Core Equips Providers for Volatile Peaks in Demand February 17^th 2016 - 08:00 AM

Building the technical core for a cable, satellite or broadcast system starts with predicting the transport needs. Add to that requirement constantly changing viewer demands and needed support for new technology like 4K, UHD and HDR. Now ask yourself, what state-of-the-art monitoring technology will be needed to ensure proper system…

Applied Technology: Ensuring Quality of Service With End-to-End OTT Monitoring January 6^th 2016 - 08:00 AM

A wealth of over-the-top (OTT) media sources makes for a highly competitive marketplace, making it critical that broadcasters differentiate their offerings by ensuring exceptional quality of service (OoS).

Applied Technology: Integration Strategies for QoS Monitoring in the Cloud January 4^th 2016 - 04:00 PM

Legacy operations like production and playout are gradually moving to the cloud as more systems connect to a facility’s IT backbone. These advances have opened the door to also moving operations-based tasks like QC and QoS monitoring to the cloud.

Workflow Automation with a Human Touch January 4^th 2016 - 12:05 PM

In a recent survey, we asked a handful of leading media facilities in Europe and North America, among other things, to what extent they agreed with the following two statements: 1. There are too many manual steps in my workflow. 2. There is potential to reduce the number of manual steps through…

A Video Quality and Measurement Overview: Part 2 December 8^th 2015 - 07:00 AM

In this Part 2 of the series, the author reviews best practices and tools needed to measure consumer’s QoE.

Testing 12G-SDI Interfaces November 4^th 2015 - 10:00 AM

Engineers face new challenges in measuring 12G-SDI signals, which require different techniques compared to those used with SD-SDI, HD-SDI and 3G-SDI signals. Here we will touch on the importance of signal shape, the impact of jitter and the complexities of the different interface formats.

A Video Quality and Measurement Overview: Part 1 October 20^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

Consumers care less about how content is delivered to their device than about the quality of the experience (QoE) on that device. This means engineers need to rethink how test and measurement tools can best be applied.

Auto QC in a Digitized Workflow: Part 2 October 8^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

In Part 1 of this series on preserving taped resources and moving them to an archive, we reviewed the typical problems that may be encountered and the tools needed to resolve them. With those identified, let’s see how it is possible to automate the process to ensure maximum throughput and q…

Soft Troubleshooting September 7^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

The few remaining moving parts in television stations other than automated studio cameras are fans, pumps and disk drives. Electro-mechanics has been replaced by chips and buffers with settings. Maintenance engineers need a new tool box.

Myth and Reality of Auto-Correction in File-Based Workflows August 6^th 2015 - 03:39 PM

File-based workflows are ubiquitous in the broadcast world today. The file-based flow has brought enormous efficiencies and made adoption of emerging technologies like Adaptive Bit-Rate (ABR), 4K, UHD, and beyond possible. Multiple delivery formats are now possible because of file-based workflows and its integration with traditional IT infrastructure. However, the…