Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 5 - Processing Gamma Corrected Signals October 22^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

It is unwise to pretend that gamma corrected signals can successfully be multiplied, added and subtracted in a matrix as if they represented linear light. Yet in television it is done all the time.

The World Of OTT: Part 1 - The Principles & Terminology Of The OTT Ecosystem October 21^st 2020 - 09:00 AM

OTT is becoming more and more prevalent in the world of video consumption. Some people would say that it will become the dominant form of video delivery in years to come as the underlying technologies expand, develop or mature, and consumer behaviour continues to revolve around convenience, flexibility and personalization. …

The Sponsors Perspective: Notre Dame’s IP-Based Campus Crossroads Project October 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today, a single cable can deliver every signal to any endpoint…

ViacomCBS Pluto TV Launches In Spain As AVoD Momentum Grows October 16^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The ViacomCBS Pluto TV AvoD (Advertising VoD) service has launched in Spain, increasing its European orbit to five countries.

The Sponsors Perspective: Manage Standardized Connections For Essences/Network Flows - ST2110/AES67 October 13^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

With the release of the core parts of the SMPTE ST 2110 suite, the confusion around different transport standards for audio and video over IP is settled. However, the adoption of these solutions for day-to-day use is still far from easy. While there are more and more pure IP facilities and…

Live Video Drives Verizon Towards 5G Edge Computing With AWS Wavelength October 8^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Performance and low latency demands of live video are helping drive leading mobile operators to deploy edge computing within their cellular and particularly emerging 5G infrastructures.

The Sponsors Perspective: The Paths To Streaming Distribution - A Tale Of Two OTT Use Cases October 6^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The consumer video market is growing fiercely competitive between content creators and content aggregators and OTT live and OTT VOD formats are growing increasingly fragmented. Consumers are benefiting from the tremendous choice of content and sources for that content while their tolerance for a negative Quality of Experience (QoE) continues…

KABB’s Chief Meteorologist Shares His Successful Broadcasting From Home Formula October 2^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

When the pandemic began shutting down TV stations in the spring of this year, journalists and producers were left to figure out how to work from home and set up technical systems they were very unfamiliar with. In many cases panic set in.

DTH Flounders In Latin America As 5G Set To Boom September 25^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The seismic shift in paid video away from legacy broadcast towards online services has occurred first in developed nations spearheaded by the US, but recently similar trends have been gathering force in some developing markets as well.

Vendors Highlight Industrial Scale Of Video Piracy At Virtual IBC 2020 September 24^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Synamedia has stood out as the vendor making the biggest splash over content protection and video piracy around IBC 2020, even though the event was confined to virtual channels.