CE vendors are starting to push Ultra HD Premium television receivers, but what does it mean for the consumer, what can they watch in UHD and what are the implications upstream for content distributors and creators?

ITU recommendation BT.2020 standardised UHD television parameters, opening the door to the delivery of 4K content to the viewer. 2020 defines the resolutions, 2160P and 7680P, and frame rates up 120fps. The recommendation included a new colorimetry: a wider colour space with new colour primaries. It also recommended the uses of an alternative electro-optical transfer function (EOTF) to the existing gamma of cathode ray tubes (CRT) that would allow for an increased dynamic range. Surprisingly, gamma was not formally defined until 2011 in BT.1886, a bit late for the CRT. 

I was so encouraged at IBC with the IP Interoperability Pavilion.The EBU/VRT IP Studio demonstration and the first set of manufacturers were actually showing IP products, not just “IP ready” products. It appears that IBC's good intentions to promote IP were stopped at the Amsterdam security gate and they never made it to the NAB New York show.

Consultant Gary Olson looks at IBC and the production technology on display.

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.

The ubiquitous waveform monitor and vectorscope provide a standard technical reference for on-set lighting adjustments and display color correction.

A battle is brewing among some equipment providers focused on, you guessed it, more pixels. And, if history is any predictor, the broadcast and production industries may in fact soon be faced with managing images composed of approximately 33 million pixels. But do we (viewers) really need 8K capture and display? Let's examine the science behind super high resolution imagery.

The Society for Information Display’s Display Week introduced more innovative ways of putting images on screens than ever seen before.

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.

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?”

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.