Applied Technology: Integration Strategies for QoS Monitoring in the Cloud January 4^th 2016 - 04:00 PM

Legacy operations like production and playout are gradually moving to the cloud as more systems connect to a facility’s IT backbone. These advances have opened the door to also moving operations-based tasks like QC and QoS monitoring to the cloud.

A Video Quality and Measurement Overview: Part 2 December 8^th 2015 - 07:00 AM

In this Part 2 of the series, the author reviews best practices and tools needed to measure consumer’s QoE.

Why We Measure Loudness December 7^th 2015 - 05:00 PM

It is all very well being able to quantify the volume of a signal, however, what is important is how loud it is perceived to be.

Viewpoint: Big Data Analytics Pivotal to Future Of Pay TV November 24^th 2015 - 04:00 PM

When we look at the various TV packages available today, the vast majority of pay-TV service providers are failing to maximize the amount of data that can be attributed to all the content that is watched by viewers. Yet, in an era where personalization will be one of the biggest…

Testing 12G-SDI Interfaces November 4^th 2015 - 10:00 AM

Engineers face new challenges in measuring 12G-SDI signals, which require different techniques compared to those used with SD-SDI, HD-SDI and 3G-SDI signals. Here we will touch on the importance of signal shape, the impact of jitter and the complexities of the different interface formats.

SDI or HDMI? Yes! November 3^rd 2015 - 10:00 AM

Video over HDMI has proven for more than a decade it has a place in professional and broadcast TV infrastructures and its use continues to grow. Will HDMI replace the SDI interface?

A Video Quality and Measurement Overview: Part 1 October 20^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

Consumers care less about how content is delivered to their device than about the quality of the experience (QoE) on that device. This means engineers need to rethink how test and measurement tools can best be applied.

What’s This Button Do? October 6^th 2015 - 10:00 AM

When computers began replicating and replacing expensive electro-mechanical broadcast TV production and playback systems, the gravy train ended for some and started for others. Affordable digital TV production gear has slashed the ante for producers and is making mountains of television content with high technical integrity available for everyone.

Soft Troubleshooting September 7^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

The few remaining moving parts in television stations other than automated studio cameras are fans, pumps and disk drives. Electro-mechanics has been replaced by chips and buffers with settings. Maintenance engineers need a new tool box.

Standards Don’t Answer all the T&M Questions August 13^th 2015 - 12:09 PM

Without standards, the world would be a very difficult place to live in. There are many kinds of standards that affect almost every aspect of live – technology is just one of those areas. We can consider language as a kind of standard that allows people in one part of the w…