ATSC 3.0: Right Place, Right Time April 9^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Many people and cultures celebrate special New Year dates. Organizations designate fiscal years. Broadcasters traditionally mark their new technology year mid-April, at annual NAB Shows. Old habits die hard.

Lossless Compression: Rewriting Data More Efficiently April 8^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

There are many types of codecs, all used for specific purposes to reduce file sizes and make them easier to distribute down a limited bandwidth pipe. Lossy compression and Lossless compression are the two most common categories of data compression used to reduce the size of data without significant loss…

The World Of OTT: Part 10 - Optimizing Encoding & Contribution For Live OTT April 6^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

OTT has dramatically expanded the range of delivery outlets for content and continues to do so. This has had a direct effect on content production, enabling almost any organization or person to create and distribute live content, which has increased the volume of content being created. Whether this content is…

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 10 - Summary April 5^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

In this final part of the series, an attempt will be made to summarize all that has gone before and to see what it means.

TV Industry Can Claw Back $28 Billion Per Year From Sports Pirates April 2^nd 2021 - 09:00 AM

The TV industry, including pay TV operators, rights holders and new streaming providers, could recoup $28.3 billion a year from pirates by luring consumers back to legitimate video services.

Timing: Part 1 - Sidereal Or Solar? March 31^st 2021 - 09:00 AM

The subjects of timing, synchronizing and broadcasting are inseparable and in this new series John Watkinson will look at the fundamentals of timing, areas in which fundamental progress was made, how we got where we are and where we might be going.

Contextual Advertising Rises Again From Ashes Of Cookies March 26^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Contextual TV advertising is emerging as a big winner from the demise of cookies for tracking user behaviour in the wake of privacy concerns and legislation such as the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) implemented in May 2018.

The Sponsors Perspective: PTP In LANs & WANs - An Essential Component In IP Broadcast Infrastructure March 24^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

PTP - as a precise network timing technology has been available for nearly two decades. It is already widely used in Telecommunication networks, Finance and Trading platforms, substation automation networks and many more industries. Every industry has its own demands such as target accuracy on the end nodes, or whether…

The World Of OTT: Part 9 - Internet Exchanges & The Growth Of OTT March 23^rd 2021 - 09:00 AM

Demand for bandwidth is growing at a remarkable rate. The demand is so high that Equinix’s Global Interconnection Index (GXI) Volume 4 forecasts a 45% CAGR specifically for interconnection bandwidth from 2019-2023. This will bring global interconnection bandwidth, used specifically by businesses that need to guarantee throughput capacity, from 5,000 Tbps in 2020 t…

Latency Remains Thorn In Side Of Live Sports Remote Production March 11^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

After years of trial and error designed to reduce operating cost and (more recently) keep crews safely distanced, remote production has found its niche in live production and will remain the de facto method for producing events over a distributed network infrastructure. However, a big hurdle left to overcome for…