High quality lens design is a scientific art. In Part two of this four-part series, John Watkinson explains some of the issues involved in optics and camera lenses. …

What we’ve seen as ATSC 3.0 deploys and develops is just the tip of the NextGen TV iceberg. …

We are not done with statistics yet. In a sense we will never be done with it and it is better to know how to deal with it than to ignore it. It is better still to know how others commonly fail to deal with it and reach…

Thus far we have looked at transforms from a somewhat abstract viewpoint. In contrast, here we look at an application where transforms take center stage. …

Broadcasters are experimenting with many new TV business models to monetize new NextGen TV technologies. …

It’s quite incredible to think that real time broadcast signal workflows are now actively encouraging software processing. It wasn’t so long ago that video images had to be processed in hardware to meet the tight timing constraints that live video processing demands. …

Synamedia, the London-headquartered video services and technology company spun out of Cisco in 2018, has acquired UK content discovery firm Utelly to beef up its offering for aggregated search, navigation, and recommendation. …

While the amount of content generated by broadcasters and program providers continues to increase exponentially, the need to manage those assets and support collaborative production as well as a myriad of distribution platforms has never been greater. The pressure is on to compete in today’s multiplatform world, w…

Dealing with brightness in camera systems sounds simple. Increase the light going into the lens; increase the signal level coming out of the camera, and in turn increase the amount of light coming out of the display. In reality, it’s always been more complicated than that. Camera, d…