Portable external hard drives many look the same, but, of course, they vary by storage capacity and file formats that include names like HFS+, NTFS, FAT32 or exFAT. Those file formats are an endless cause for confusion for the uninitiated.

Broadcasters are spending millions of dollars getting ready to roll out ATSC 3.0 technology. Yet, an elephant remains in the room. Will all of the required techno-puzzle pieces properly mesh to create an HDR, 4K, mobile, two-way, viewer-identification-capable service?

Now that AV1 has entered the market, it’s a perfect time to review the future of video streaming. With Apple joining the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) in January 2018, practically all major tech leaders are on board and AV1 looks to be in good shape for becoming a widespread standard in the near future.

But let’s not sign the death warrant for HEVC so hastily. HEVC is delivering on its promise of halving bitrates and quality pictures while AV1 is barely out of the lab. The gloves may be off, so this article weighs the benefits and the negatives of HEVC and its ‘royalty free’ alternative before the bell rings for round 1.

Losing media content is a disaster. Yet, there are multiple technologies designed to store content, some for short-term and others for long-term. In the expanding world of content development, everyone has the same question; “How best to store it?”

With the rapid demise of VTR support and the concerns of tape storage longevity, the race is on to digitize media assets and efficiently store them. But information retrieval is only as efficient as classification, otherwise we’d never be able to find the assets in the first place. So how will AI help with this?

Recording interviews is a bread and butter task for most news reporters. Working alone for various media simultaneously, reporters without assistance often have to get both good audio and video. Here is a guide on how to achieve high quality results.

Today's headlines seem to shout, "Step right up, read all about it. New 5G cellular technology to replace OTA broadcast. Streaming over 5G will deliver 4K, HDR, and every conceivable compression format to homes, businesses and cell phones."

OTT video consumption via smartphones is escalating in Sub Saharan Africa as premium satellite TV services decline, although the two trends are only partly connected.

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