The Sponsors Perspective: What Are You Waiting For? May 24^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

Cloud based workflows are here to stay. So, there are no longer any technical or production-based reasons not to take full advantage of the opportunities this can bring to broadcasters.

Broadcast And The Metaverse - Part 2 May 17^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

The Metaverse may seem a long way off but the technology underpinning its rapid deployment is here today and has the potential to empower broadcasters to improve the immersive viewing experience.

The Sponsors Perspective: Why Settle For A Or B? May 12^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

AMPP provides many different configurations for high availability cloud systems that empower broadcasters to choose the best infrastructures to meet their demands and further improve the viewing experience.

Vendor Spotlight: Chyron May 10^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Chyron’s new mantra is flexibility. Founded in 1966, Chyron’s technology has become so ingrained in the broadcast industry that its very company name has become the standard term for a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image during a news broadcast.

Motion Pictures: Part 2 - Optical Flow Axis May 9^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

There is no motion in the static frames of a movie. The motion is purely in the imagination of the viewer. But how does it work?

Broadcast And The Metaverse - Part 1 May 8^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

From the earliest public radio transmissions in the 1920s to 4K television of today, broadcasters have been working to continually deliver and improve the immersive experience. Television broadcasting has gone from black and white, to color, then HD and 4K, with massive improvements in audio all building on previous technologies…

BEITC Session Report - Using TV For GPS Backup In The USA May 4^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

China and Russia have back-up GPS systems. The USA has no GPS backup, although politicians have been talking about the need for 20 years. ATSC 3.0 stations have the hardware in place to provide nationwide backup. The US Department of Transportation is responsible for GPS. If The Office of Transportation Policy (TRA…

Compression: Part 8 - Spatial Compression May 3^rd 2023 - 09:00 AM

Now we turn to Spatial Compression, which takes place within individual images and takes no account of other images.

Researchers Building Next-Generation Virtual Infrastructure Based On 6G Wireless Networking April 28^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

While commercial deployments of 5G networks are steadily increasing, many commentators predict that the rise of more immersive communication, holographic telepresence, and social experiences powered by Extended Reality (XR)… IE ‘the metaverse’, will create vast amounts of generated data and applications that will rapidly exceed the current and future capabilities…

Waves: Part 8 - Shock Waves April 26^th 2023 - 10:00 AM

Shock waves are interesting phenomena that take place in a number of different media. For an arcane physical process, they have done quite well to be adopted by the mainstream media as one of their clichés, along with Mae West life jackets and aircraft black boxes (which are orange).