Playout Monitoring & Compliance At IBC 2024 September 10^th 2024 - 02:00 PM

Quality of streaming experience, compliance monitoring, and verification of content source will be major themes on the monitoring front at IBC 2024. On top of that will be the monitoring challenges associated with automation and AI as they extend across workflows, especially in sports production.

OTA TV Transmission At IBC 2024 September 9^th 2024 - 02:00 PM

It is time for a round up of who will be on the show floor at IBC 2024 demonstrating OTA TV transmission technology.

Is AI “Just A Tool”? September 6^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

People often say that AI is just a tool. But it’s not. That’s a fundamental mistake and likely to be wrong by several orders of magnitude.

Streaming Delivery At IBC 2024 September 5^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

Deployment of cloud technologies and IP transport has surged over the last year, focused on reducing costs, improving quality of experience, and meeting increasingly stringent demands for energy efficiency. Security of live streams remains an unsolved challenge, with continuing emphasis on threat detection and resolution in near real time for…

Channel Creation & Playout At IBC 2024 September 4^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

Linear channels are thriving rather than going away and this is challenging service providers and their technology suppliers to compete by introducing more interactivity and personalization more akin to streaming. Channel creation and playout are also becoming increasingly integrated and demanding common automation products so that human effort can be…

HDR Picture Fundamentals: Brightness August 28^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

This article describes one of the fundamental principles of broadcast - how humans perceive light, how this relates to the technology we use to capture and display images, and how this relates to HDR & Wide Color Gamut

Virtualization - Part 2 August 23^rd 2024 - 09:00 AM

In part one, we saw how virtualization is nothing new and that we rely on it to understand and interact with the world. In this second part, we will see how new developments like the cloud and Video Over IP have allowed us to abstract the conceptual parts of a…

The Big Guide To OTT - The Book August 9^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The Big Guide To OTT ‘The Book’ provides deep insights into the technology that is enabling a new media industry. The Book is a huge collection of technical reference content. It contains 31 articles (216 pages… 64,000 words!) that exhaustively explore the technology and business models of OTT and streaming services.

Pioneering 5G Broadcast In The USA August 7^th 2024 - 05:08 PM

As momentum for 5G Broadcast around the world slowly grows, we catch up with progress in the USA with recent and forthcoming trials.

Virtualization - Part 1 August 6^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

As progress marches us resolutely onwards to a future broadcast infrastructure that will almost certainly include of a lot more software running on cloud-based infrastructure, this seems like a good moment to consider the nature of Virtualization.