We talk to Systems Integrator Erik Utter to get his insight into the challenges of production facility and system design, and the right time to go SDI, IP, Cloud or hybrid.
What is real time? While that question doesn’t normally come up at the dinner table, asking it of a group of broadcast engineers can draw out all kinds of responses, from philosophical debates around global atomic clocks to technical dissertations on lines, frames, and permissible nanoseconds of processing delay.
The human eye is not fixed and so it can track moving objects in real life and on screens. The tracking action changes everything. Without an understanding of tracking everything seems peculiar. With an understanding it seems obvious why certain things don’t work. Interlace is one of them.
Fox Sports is gearing up for its live coverage of Super Bowl LVII on February 12th, which will be the first NFL Super Bowl to be televised in 4K UHD. The game will be shot in High Dynamic Range (HDR) at 1080p and upconverted for broadcast in 4K and HD…
Motion estimation is one of the most important enabling technologies of video compression because it allows redundancy between pictures to be identified even in the presence of motion.
Large-scale remote production systems can be complex and challenging to monitor, but IP presents many opportunities to capture and make use of rich data streams.