Despite the fact that most broadcasters have been slow to embrace 4K production in their news studios, there are a few that have installed the latest cameras in an effort to produce a master file for archiving. They include non-traditional media organizations like Facebook Live, Netflix and YouTube, which all maintain 4K production studios that are made available to users with significant online followers.

The Broadcast Bridge has published multiple articles and tutorials about the industry’s increased use of the cloud as an important tool. It would be good to examine how the cloud is now centric to many traditional in-house workflows. However usage is addictive and must be actively managed to control costs.

Television pundits have been claiming the death knell for television has been ringing for years. Yet, new research from Vimeo indicates that the future of video is already here and that OTT (over-the-top) streaming video is how video content is now shared, viewed by ever larger audiences.

Another fall, another IBC. Its’ that time of year when we find out if the promises made at NAB are kept, new promises are made and we see if there are real differences between U.S. and the rest of the world regarding technology philosophy and direction.

A PR executive asked me this week, “… is streaming is considered broadcast…?” At first I was taken aback at getting such a question from an industry person. My response was “You bet!” I then asked myself, why that would even be a question.

Blind people consume as much video programming as do sighted people. In recent years, the FCC has actively increased audio description requirements through the CVAA (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act). Broadcasters are required to provide audio descriptions for certain content. Here is what you need to know.

The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) has published a guide to help members understand Augmented Reality and the associated opportunities for developing more immersive content.

Release of the AV1 codec from the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) in March 2018 was supposed to mark the start of a heated battle with the H.265 (HEVC) codec for supremacy in the converging world of video entertainment, but for the time being they are more likely to coexist relatively peacefully in parallel universes.

Cloud video encoding and workflows is growing by almost every measure. To quantify such changes, Encoding.com, completed and just released a survey, which provides a snapshot of the media's use of cloud processing.

We shooters, and the broadcasters that hire us, have long had a noble and worthy goal: that what we see with our naked eye should match what we see on our TV at home. This goal may have seemed elusive or impossible in the past but today, given the advances in technology, especially HDR, the dream of 1:1 capture and display is not only realistic but is already here.