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Lossless Compression: Rewriting Data More Efficiently April 8th 2021

There are many types of codecs, all used for specific purposes to reduce file sizes and make them easier to distribute down a limited bandwidth pipe. Lossy compression and Lossless compression are the two most common categories of data compression used to reduce the size of data without…

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Apple’s M1 ARM For Broadcast Infrastructure Applications: Part 2 April 7th 2021

In part 2 of this investigation, we look at why Apple’s new M1 processor benefits broadcasters. …

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Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 10 - Summary April 5th 2021

In this final part of the series, an attempt will be made to summarize all that has gone before and to see what it means. …

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TV Industry Can Claw Back $28 Billion Per Year From Sports Pirates April 2nd 2021

The TV industry, including pay TV operators, rights holders and new streaming providers, could recoup $28.3 billion a year from pirates by luring consumers back to legitimate video services. …

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HDR: Part 22 - Creative Technology - Non Standard April 1st 2021

Read too much film and TV industry technical literature, and it’s easy to get the impression that everything about the technology is built to carefully considered specifications. As Philo Farnsworth’s wife was probably aware, though, as he tinkered with the electronics while she sat in as a t…

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Timing: Part 1 - Sidereal Or Solar? March 31st 2021

The subjects of timing, synchronizing and broadcasting are inseparable and in this new series John Watkinson will look at the fundamentals of timing, areas in which fundamental progress was made, how we got where we are and where we might be going. …

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Creative Analysis: Part 20 - Cinematographer Pete Romano On Underwater Filming March 30th 2021

There aren’t many positions in the film industry which have the prerequisite of spending an hour sunken in the waters off San Diego in a classic diving suit with a blacked-out helmet. To be fair, it wasn’t so much the film industry that made Pete Romano do …

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Mediapro’s MAM Strategy Is Spanning The Globe March 29th 2021

As company mergers, acquisitions and extensive rights management agreements have become part of the new media landscape, it has created large multi-national conglomerates that span the globe. This in turn has revealed the need for IT networking technology and complex software orchestration that tie all of the disparate…

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Contextual Advertising Rises Again From Ashes Of Cookies March 26th 2021

Contextual TV advertising is emerging as a big winner from the demise of cookies for tracking user behaviour in the wake of privacy concerns and legislation such as the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) implemented in May 2018. …

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