The Sponsors Perspective: Mixing Realities - Feeding The Immersive Markets September 15^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Will alternative immersive channels create an imperative for broadcasters? Veronique Larcher, Director of AMBEO Immersive Audio, Sennheiser, explores immersive content outside of the commercial broadcast space, including virtual, augmented, and mixed realities.

Digital Audio: Part 3 - The Mathematics Of Sampling September 14^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Digital audio relies completely on sampling and no treatment of the subject can be complete without looking at how it works.

Creative Analysis: Part 6 - The Middle Man With DOP John Christian Rosenlund September 9^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Director of photography John Christian Rosenlund has at least a three-decade history with director Bent Hamer. Their most recent collaboration, The Middle Man, depicts a town in the northern United States during a post-industrial depression. It’s perhaps not a subject instinctively associated with Rosenlund and Hamer’s Norwegian roots, tho…

The Sponsors Perspective: The Personal HRTF - An Aural Fingerprint September 8^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

HRTF stands for Head Related Transfer Function and, simply put, is a catch-all term for the characteristics a human head imparts on sound before it enters the ear canal. Everything from level tonal changes caused by our head, shoulders, and pinna (external ear parts), to arrival-time differences (Interaural Time Difference,…

DOPs & Post Production: Is This Our New Livelihood? September 7^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Before pandemics and the downsizing at traditional, broadcast news operations, many news and non-fiction DOPs were already assuming a significant role in post-production. Whereas frame rates, f-stops, and the character of our lenses, once formed the backbone of our expertise and practice, DOPs in the non-theatrical realm increasingly find ourselves…

Changing Architecture In The New IP World September 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

The Cloud is the future of live TV production.

The Sponsors Perspective: Deep Dive Into Immersive Audio For All September 1^st 2020 - 09:00 AM

The familiar “Faster, Higher, Stronger” motto is not just for Olympic athletes but also applies to the common man (and woman): The first black-and-white television sets were considered a sensation until color TV came along, opening a whole new dimension to the viewing audience. In parallel, cinema screens grew ever tal…

HDR: Part 13 - Cameras And The Zero-Sum Game August 31^st 2020 - 09:00 AM

For a long time, selecting camera gear has been fairly easy. For twenty years, digital cinema cameras have never quite had everything we wanted, and the choice often boiled down to comparing the compromises. That’ll always be true to a degree, but for the last year or two it’s f…

Live TV Karma Rules August 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Warning: Live TV production troubleshooting contradictions can trigger cognitive dissonance.

Simplifying Monitoring August 26^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

As IP, COTs and IT systems advance through broadcast infrastructures, monitoring continues to play a critical role in the efficient and reliable running of a facility. Combining traditional video and audio monitoring with network and system analysis soon increases in complexity, so what do we need to do to optimize…