Dolby Vision Beating 4K January 29^th 2016 - 12:05 PM

Dolby Laboratories has announced major partnerships that will bring Dolby Vision to your living room HDR TV faster than 4K video is becoming available. Look for it in home movie releases and theaters, too.

Imagine’s Charlie Vogt Looks to 2016 as the Year of IP January 13^th 2016 - 02:46 PM

Charlie Vogt sees the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) as key to the deployment of IP-enabled systems into the broadcast environment. IP allows broadcasters to leverage cloud services and software defined networks to create new business opportunities. Playout is just one area that stands to benefit from a move…

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.

Is Cloud Playout Ready For Primetime? Veset Has A View December 3^rd 2015 - 08:00 AM

Many vendors hardware-based technologies are masquerading as cloud playout solutions while the industry itself is suffering from a psychological barrier of insecurity. These are some of the strongly argued views of Veset CEO Igor Krol. Veset was founded in Latvia in 2011 and was among the first companies to build and…

Is Cloud Playout Ready For Primetime? SAM Has A View November 30^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

In theory all elements of traditional playout can be migrated to the cloud now. However, there are issues of standardization of IP streams and everyone is watching and waiting for everyone else to truly make the first step. There’s certainly a lot of buzz around the cloud, but little e…

Is Cloud Playout Ready? PACE Media Development Has A View November 26^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

Cloud playout, with graphics and branding, holds out the hope to broadcasters of being able to introduce new channels on an operational expenditure basis rather than investing in dedicated hardware. The question is not whether the notoriously risk averse broadcaster will move their playout provision to IP – the benefits are w…

Alrai TV Trials Cloud Playout with Imagine November 24^th 2015 - 01:50 PM

Kuwaiti broadcaster Alrai TV has been trialling a proof of concept IP-based cloud playout solution from Imagine Communications since July. This is the second such win for Imagine in the region following a similar implementation at Doha-based Al Rayyan.

Is Cloud Playout Ready For Primetime? Harmonic Has A View November 19^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

According to some vendors, cloud playout is good to go today. Yet for the most part broadcasters are holding off on investment. It is still early days for the technology of course and Moore’s law will send performance up and costs down so that realtime highly reactive graphics, UHD…

Australia’s NINE Network Builds New Adelaide Facility November 12^th 2015 - 01:50 PM

NINE Networks has built a new production and broadcast facility in Adelaide, Australia that’s controlled by a centralized Virtual Studio Manager (VSM) system from L-S-B Broadcast Technologies, based in Wiesbaden, Germany. NINE’s new VSM system offers operational workflow optimization, including virtual signal paths, pseudo rules, facility wide label exc…

Is Cloud Playout Ready For Primetime? Cinegy Has A View November 12^th 2015 - 08:00 AM

Few concepts illustrate the advantage of moving to IP better than cloud playout. Instead of vast banks of machines requiring lots of manual attention, software applications linked to data centres can provide broadcasters with the ability to launch channels, insert targeted advertising or localise content as quickly as internet-only rivals. “I…

The World Of OTT (Quality Assurance Pt2) - Monitoring From The Network Side June 23^rd 2021 - 09:00 AM

Part 1 of this series described how network-side QoE (Quality of Experience) measurement is fundamental to proactively assuring the quality of OTT services. At its core, the network-side can be an early warning system for QoS, which in turn correlates to actual QoE performance. This article considers the two types of…

Now A Trusted Technology, AI Streamlines Video Production And Delivery Workflows June 18^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

There was a time when the mere mention of bringing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning into the media industry brought visions of robots replacing humans. Today that is certainly not the case—although we might be getting close: I saw a robotic camera operator move the cameras for a n…

Improving Headset Comms At Extreme Events: Part 2 - Design For User Comfort June 16^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

We move on to looking at developments in noise cancelling technology and the role it can play in achieving clarity and comfort within headsets for intercom use.

Hybrid CDN - Part 2 June 15^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

This is the second instalment of our deep dive into the rapid growth of OTT, high user expectations and the developments in hybrid systems which combine CDN with storage and distributed processing to meet demand.

5G Gaining Momentum In Broadcast, But Universal Infrastructure (And Experience) Lagging June 11^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

The recent news that NTV has become the first Russian TV channel to experiment with 5G broadcast, one of many such transmission tests that have been conducted over the past 18 months, illustrates that broadcasters see a bright future in the next-generation cellular data delivery system.

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