Encoding Shines At Virtual IBC 2020 September 11^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Had IBC 2020 taken place as usual, some of the liveliest discussions would have centered around encoding, after an eventful year leading up to the virtual event that took place over the same time slot.

Local TV Looks Beyond TV September 10^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Local broadcasters are used to mission-critical because everything is mission-critical. Moving critical data may be the right move.

Creative Analysis: Part 6 - The Middle Man With DOP John Christian Rosenlund September 9^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Director of photography John Christian Rosenlund has at least a three-decade history with director Bent Hamer. Their most recent collaboration, The Middle Man, depicts a town in the northern United States during a post-industrial depression. It’s perhaps not a subject instinctively associated with Rosenlund and Hamer’s Norwegian roots, tho…

The Sponsors Perspective: The Personal HRTF - An Aural Fingerprint September 8^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

HRTF stands for Head Related Transfer Function and, simply put, is a catch-all term for the characteristics a human head imparts on sound before it enters the ear canal. Everything from level tonal changes caused by our head, shoulders, and pinna (external ear parts), to arrival-time differences (Interaural Time Difference,…

DOPs & Post Production: Is This Our New Livelihood? September 7^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Before pandemics and the downsizing at traditional, broadcast news operations, many news and non-fiction DOPs were already assuming a significant role in post-production. Whereas frame rates, f-stops, and the character of our lenses, once formed the backbone of our expertise and practice, DOPs in the non-theatrical realm increasingly find ourselves…

Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding Edges Towards Final Approval September 4^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) is gaining traction faster than any other video compression standard as it approaches final approval by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

Changing Architecture In The New IP World September 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

Data Recording and Transmission: Part 23 - Delivering Data September 2^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

The requirements for data transmission have changed out of all recognition since the early days of computing where the goal was simply to make something that worked. Today that’s the easy part.

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All September 1^st 2020 - 09:00 AM

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever tal…

HDR: Part 13 - Cameras And The Zero-Sum Game August 31^st 2020 - 09:00 AM

For a long time, selecting camera gear has been fairly easy. For twenty years, digital cinema cameras have never quite had everything we wanted, and the choice often boiled down to comparing the compromises. That’ll always be true to a degree, but for the last year or two it’s f…