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…

Here we look at alternating current (AC) systems and how generating AC often requires an intermediate step of converting to DC to improve the efficiencies of AC generators. …

That lump of glass on the front of the camera is often taken for granted, but John Watkinson argues that choosing and using lenses wisely can make a big difference in captured image quality. …

Virtual production based around LED walls involves a disparate collection of technologies, and the people best placed to get the best out of the technology are often multi-disciplinarians with experience across several fields. …

The first part of this article explained the set of requirements that appear in the most modern OTT Services from broadcasters launching their own App-based services in the 2020s. Here we inspect those requirements in the two broad areas of Content Monetization and Content Delivery. …

Information can never be separated from its nemesis, which is uncertainty. The former is only possible by limiting the latter. …