EU Orders Broadcom To Halt Exclusive Deals With Set Top Box Makers October 21^st 2019 - 01:00 PM

Broadcom, the dominant US maker of chips for TV set top boxes (STBs), cable modems, smart phones and communications products, has been ordered by the EU (European Union) to cease exclusivity deals while the latter investigates whether these agreements are anti-competitive.

Wireless Power Advances August 6^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

Powercast long-range wireless power technology has gained three additional FCC approvals, adding one Part 15 and two Part 18 certifications. What’s in it for TV broadcasters?

Embrionix’s Mini SDI-IP Gateways Now Include Frame Sync July 10^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

With the migration from SDI to IP infrastructures in full swing across the industry, broadcast engineers tasked with setting up these internal networks are looking for new ways to perform signal processing in the easiest and most cost-effective way.

Articles You May Have Missed November 30^th 2016 - 09:00 AM

A new range of television sets will be unveiled at the upcoming 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV in January. Along with high dynamic range (HDR), OLED displays and much larger screens, TV set manufacturers will be eager to grab a larger portion of viewer’s wallets with these f…

What You Need To Know About Return Loss May 4^th 2016 - 08:00 AM

SMPTE defines a set of stringent requirements for return loss, which have been challenging for many hardware designers even at today’s speed of 2.97 Gbps. As the industry upgrades to 5.94 Gbps and 11.88 Gbps to support ultra-HD video resolutions, meeting return loss will become even more challenging.

Reverse Power Feed: Fiber-fast DSL Without Breaking the Bank April 1^st 2016 - 08:00 AM

June 7, 2015, marks the day in which the first 8K high definition (HD) video appeared in YouTube. As HD video content becomes a consumer expectation, and the main On Demand video content suppliers and distributors move to higher and higher resolutions, service providers need to increase their Last Mile capacity so…

Panasonic: There are No Breakthroughs in Flash Technology for 4K Video December 30^th 2014 - 08:00 AM

4K video is having a growing impact beyond home viewing on television sets. Cinema cameras that record 4K video are now being widely used to make feature films, while low-cost 4K still cameras are being used in photography to select 4K moving frames as still images — redefining the traditional concept o…

Green Chips: Meaning efficient semiconductors December 17^th 2014 - 01:50 PM

Ever heard of a “Green Chip”? They represent a line of energy efficient semiconductors made by NXP, all targeted at reducing the power consumption of electronics products.

PTP Explained - Part 4 - Requirement’s For Virtualisation Of ST 2110 COTS Infrastructures December 10^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

In the fourth and final part of this series, we wrap up with an explanation on how PTP is used to support SMPTE ST 2110 based services, we dive into timing constraints related to using COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) hardware, i.e.: servers.

Closing In On Methods For Long Term Archiving December 2^nd 2019 - 10:00 AM

As the amount of data in the world keeps exponentially multiplying, a Holy Grail in research is finding a way to reliably preserve that data for the ages. Researchers are now closing in on methods to make data permanent. The problem is there is no way to be absolutely sure…

Data Recording: Part 14 – Error Handling November 29^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

In the data recording or transmission fields, any time a recovered bit is not the same as what was supplied to the channel, there has been an error. Different types of data have different tolerances to error. Any time the error rate is in excess of the tolerance, we need…

5G And Live Production November 28^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

This past summer the NBA did a little experimenting using 5G and mobile phones to cover their summer league. This is not User Generated Content (UGC) by any means. It also was not an off the shelf deployment of 5G and demonstration of its capability.

PTP Explained - Part 3 - Operational Supervision Of PTP Network Services November 26^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

In the previous two parts of this four-part series, we covered the basic principles of PTP and explained how time transfer can be made highly reliable using both the inherent methods IEE1588 provides as well as various complementing redundancy technologies. In this part, we look deeper into monitoring PTP systems.

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