Errors are handled in real channels by a combination of techniques and it is the overall result that matters. This means that different media and channels can have completely different approaches to the problem, yet still deliver reliable data.
As the world prepares for 2020, broadcasters, video content creators and providers grapple with new formats and distribution models, and what it takes to test and maintain them.
An engineering assessment of broadcast TV T&M needs and solutions in late 2019 suggests the new decade will bring more needs and solutions. A revelation such as this was once news.
In the data recording or transmission fields, any time a recovered bit is not the same as what was supplied to the channel, there has been an error. Different types of data have different tolerances to error. Any time the error rate is in excess of the tolerance, we need to do something. Error handling is a broad term that includes everything to do with errors. It includes studying the error sensitivity of different types of data, measures to prevent or reduce errors, measures to actually correct them and measures to conceal the error if correction is not available or not possible.
Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting Co., which owns and operates stations in nine markets, is using Cobalt Digital’s software defined 9922-FS-DSP platform to provide microservices for Emergency Alert System local insertion and CALM compliance for its terrestrial stations.
Dalet integration of Interra’s Baton is for advanced automated quality assurance and compliance delivery for Dalet Galaxy five and the Ooyala Flex Media Platform.