Microservices Poised To Take Self-Serve To Another Level February 6^th 2020 - 10:00 AM

Microservices enable broadcasters to find new ways to adopt, engineer, operate and maintain the value of their solutions. For vendors, microservices provides opportunities to offer what could essentially be a self-serve menu for clients rather than building bespoke workflows internally. The impact on the service that will be delivered by…

Super Bowl LIV - Betting On Big Game Bandwidth? February 3^rd 2020 - 01:50 PM

Video compression, bonded cellular technology and cellular networks have evolved to the level that giant planned events like the Super Bowl no longer challenge cellular service adequacy.

Data Recording and Transmission: Part 16 - Error Correction February 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Error correction is fascinating not least because it involves concepts that are not much used elsewhere, along with some idiomatic terminology that needs careful definition.

Streaming Fatigue Gives Hope To Legacy TV January 29^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Fears among major streaming providers that consumers may kick back against growing content fragmentation have been confirmed in a recent US survey from polling group YouGov for The Trade Desk, a developer of data-driven advertising software.

Field Report: Making Live Esports IP Broadcasting Awesome January 27^th 2020 - 11:00 AM

LTN Global Communications helped Boombox successfully stream the 2019 FIA Gran Turismo World Championship Tour with live, broadcast-quality TV streams in 7 languages.

Predicting Editing Performance From Games And Benchmarks: Part 2 January 23^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Computer game apps read compressed artificial world descriptions from a disk file. This artificial world is regenerated by the CPU and loaded into the GPU where it is displayed to the gamer. The gamer’s actions are fed back to the GPU which dynamically modifies the artificial world it displays.

Color and Colorimetry – Part 8 January 22^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

The derivation of the famous CIE horseshoe was explained in the previous part in terms of a re-mapping or distortion of rg color space. The derivation is somewhat abstract because the uses of color science go far beyond the applications in broadcasting. However it is equally possible to describe CIE…

The Sponsors Perspective: The Path Forward - A Single Master HDR Workflow January 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

From the Women’s World Cup, Wimbledon to the FA Cup Final and more, 2019 has seen some of the highest viewership stats in sporting event history.

ITU Adopts ATSC 3.0 January 14^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Unlike the days of incompatible PAL, SECAM and NTSC analog TV sets and expensive conversion from one standard to another, ATSC 3.0 is frame rate agnostic.

Data Recording and Transmission: Part 15 - Error Handling II January 2^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Errors are handled in real channels by a combination of techniques and it is the overall result that matters. This means that different media and channels can have completely different approaches to the problem, yet still deliver reliable data.