Essential Guide: Immersive Audio Pt 4 - Options And Tools For Production Of Live Immersive Content September 24^th 2019 - 11:00 AM

In this fourth installment of the Immersive Audio series we investigate the production tools needed to produce live immersive content. Moving from channel-based output to object audio presents some interesting challenges as the complex audio image moves around in three-dimensional space.

Essential Guide: Live HDR Down-Conversion September 9^th 2019 - 01:50 PM

Live sports productions are the natural home for HDR. The increase in luminance latitude combined with extended color space delivers an immersive experience never before witnessed by the home viewer. But backwards compatibility must still be maintained for legacy SDR audiences.

Essential Guide: Immersive Audio Pt 3 - Immersive Audio Objects July 24^th 2019 - 01:00 PM

Immersive audio transforms the listening environment to deliver a mesmerizing and captivating experience for a wide range of audiences and expansive group of genres.

Essential Guide: Immersive Audio Pt 2 - Immersive Audio Compatibility May 30^th 2019 - 12:30 PM

Immersive audio has the great potential to transform our human listening experience, captivate our imagination, and inspire our inventiveness.

Essential Guide: Immersive Audio Pt 1 - An Immersive Audio Primer April 18^th 2019 - 11:30 AM

Part one of this four-part series introduces immersive audio, the terminology used, the standards adopted, and the key principles that make it work.

Special Report: Super Bowl LIII – The Technology Behind the Broadcast February 18^th 2019 - 11:30 AM

New England Patriot quarterback, Tom Brady, entered Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta, GA on February 3rd having already won five Super Bowl games. And through four-quarters of play, all delivered by a television crew of hundreds of technicians, sports casters and engineers, about 100 million television viewers watched Brady add another…

Essential Guide: IP for Mobile Production November 3^rd 2016 - 05:00 PM

IP networks have been at the heart of many broadcast operations for two decades and more. Editing uses commodity workstations and IP networks, as do playout operations. But live production has, until recently, been the preserve of SDI. The advances in IT, driven by the data centers that power the…

Essential Guide to Fiber Optics in Live Production June 21^st 2016 - 11:00 AM

There was a time when the use of fiber optic cable struck fear in hearts of live production crews because it was difficult to work with and there was a certain black magic associated with distributing optical signals that had to be done right in order for multiple paths of…

Super Bowl 15 - A Technological Feat of Super Proportions February 6^th 2015 - 01:00 PM

What broadcast engineer, video or audio technician or camera person hasn’t wanted to work the Super Bowl? Being part of the broadcast team for the most high-profile event in U.S. television is considered by many to be a career-crowning achievement. For those who do work the Super Bowl, i…