Sensors and Lenses - Part 3 February 10^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

There’s a terrible tendency in cinematography to concentrate too much on the technology, overlooking creative skills that often make a huge contribution. In the last two pieces of this series we’ve gone into some detail on the historical background to current camera technology. In this last piece on the…

Qvest Media Helps Broadcasters Manage The Shift To Virtualized Operations February 7^th 2020 - 12:05 PM

As a long-standing systems architect and ICT integrator with 13 international offices that has designed and worked on some of the most high-profile broadcast facilities and live productions, Qvest Media is used to reshaping its business strategy to fit the current trends. Today, as the industry continues to migrate to cloud-based…

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…

Audio Over IP Primer For Broadcast - Part 3 February 4^th 2020 - 01:00 PM

In Part 2 we looked at solutions to keep AoIP systems simple and discussed the compromise and efficiency vendor specific network systems provide. In Part 3, we look further into system management and network security.

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.

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…

Audio Over IP Primer For Broadcast - Part 2 January 21^st 2020 - 01:00 PM

In Part 1 we introduced the benefits of Audio over IP and investigated some of the subtleties that make it the ideal choice for modern broadcast facilities. In Part 2, we look at the practicalities of making AoIP work in a real-time television environment.