NRK’s LL35 Gaming Reality TV Experiment July 28^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

LL35 is a “If you build it, they will come” attempt to attract the young gaming community to live streaming and TV content.

Machine Learning (ML) For Broadcasters: Part 1 - Overview July 27^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Machine Learning is generating a great deal of interest in the broadcast industry, and in this short series we cut through the marketing hype and discover what ML is, and what it isn’t, with particular emphasis on neural networks (NNs).

Transforms: Part 7 - Standards Conversion July 26^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The transform is a useful device that has some interesting characteristics. On one side of a transform we might have the spatial domain, for example data describing an image in terms of brightness as a function of position. On the other side we might have coefficients describing the spatial frequencies…

Cloud Native - It’s Not All Or Nothing July 25^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Cloud native processing has become a real opportunity for broadcasters in recent years as the latencies, processing speeds, and storage capacities have not only met broadcast requirements, but have even surpassed them.

How Open Caching Aims To Support Broadcast Grade Streaming - Part 2 July 22^nd 2022 - 09:00 AM

Open Caching is still relatively young. In fact, it is about 10 years younger than the first major introductions of D2C Broadcaster services like BBC iPlayer.

Electricity: Part 5 - Wind Turbines July 21^st 2022 - 09:30 AM

Wind turbines are increasing in number because they produce electricity with reasonable environmental impact. But how green are they really?

Master Control: Part 1 - The Four Missions Of Master Control July 20^th 2022 - 10:00 AM

We begin this mini series with some history, the basic principles of Master Control and the evolution of centralcasting.

Flexibility At The Core Of Decentralized Infrastructures July 19^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Most broadcast and media production professionals acknowledge that if they were to design the ideal video production and playout facility today, it would be all based on Internet Protocol (IP) operations. Due to the inherent benefits—cost savings, scalability and flexibility—this decentralized design is quickly becoming the favored way to …

UK Competition For Frequencies Squeezes Out Free To Air Channels July 15^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The UK’s sole DVB-T service is called Freeview, and it’s by far the most commonly used and widely recognised way to watch television in the country. Upcoming changes to Freeview, though, will affect the availability of certain BBC channels – and highlight future challenges which face anyone who uses radio…

IP Security For Broadcasters: Part 10 - NATS Advanced Messaging July 12^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

As IT and broadcast infrastructures become ever more complex, the need to securely exchange data is becoming more challenging. NATS messaging is designed to simplify collaboration between often diverse software applications.