Color and Colorimetry – Part 9 February 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Systems intended to convey color images all need to have a defined white point for practical reasons. The white point is where the luminance axis passes through the plane of the chromaticity diagram on its way from black to white.

US Repack Races To Finish Line Fireworks February 24^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

987 TV stations have either completed repacking or are in progress. With three tight deadlines looming before the FCC Repack schedule concludes in 5 months, will stations, vendors and crews be able to maintain the pace?

Sinclair Broadcast Group Joins Pearl TV February 13^th 2020 - 01:50 PM

Sinclair becomes the 9th member to join the Pearl organization as local TV stations prepare to roll out NEXTGEN TV in top US markets this year.

Color and Colorimetry – Part 8 January 22^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

The derivation of the famous CIE horseshoe was explained in the previous part in terms of a re-mapping or distortion of rg color space. The derivation is somewhat abstract because the uses of color science go far beyond the applications in broadcasting. However it is equally possible to describe CIE…

ITU Adopts ATSC 3.0 January 14^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Unlike the days of incompatible PAL, SECAM and NTSC analog TV sets and expensive conversion from one standard to another, ATSC 3.0 is frame rate agnostic.

Color and Colorimetry – Part 7 – CIE XYZ December 16^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

The rg color space served to document the chromaticity gamut of the HVS, and so was a great step forward in understanding color and color vision. However, it was based on a certain set of primaries. As no set of primaries can embrace the whole of the HVS gamut, it…

Apple TV Plus Puts Spotlight On Low Latency Streaming And CMAF December 3^rd 2019 - 10:00 AM

The recent launch of Apple’s TV Plus service bulked up with original TV shows costing $6 billion to produce has disrupted global attempts to unify streaming behind a common set of protocols for encoding, packaging, storing and playing back video delivered over the internet.

Color and Colorimetry – Part 6 November 13^th 2019 - 10:00 AM

It is almost a hundred years since the color space of the human visual system was first explored. John Watkinson looks at how it was done.

Color and Colorimetry – Part 5 October 15^th 2019 - 09:00 AM

In a multi-disciplinary subject such as color space, it is hard to know where to start. John Watkinson argues that the starting point is less important than the destination.

Now We Know. NEXTGEN TV Is A Go October 3^rd 2019 - 12:30 PM

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has unveiled “NEXT GEN TV” as the go-to-market name and logo for all ATSC 3.0-Enabled Tech Devices.