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2017 HPA Tech Retreat Offers Detailed Technology Focus and A Bit of Fun
The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA)’s annual Technology Retreat has been a mainstay of the TV broadcast and production and postproduction communities since 1993, when it was run by the International Teleproduction Society; offering presentations, panel discussions, roundtable conversations, and working demonstrations of technologies currently in use and those that are oAlan Blumlein Had a Profound Affect on Modern Stereo Recording
On Febuary 12, when Alan Blumlein receives the Grammy’s Technical Award, few in the audience will grasp the profound implications of his life and work. But Blumlein, a visionary engineer whose greatest work happened in the 1930s, changed and still affects modern stereo recording to this day. …BBC Inspires EBU Over Flexible Content Production
Innovation has become a mantra for broadcasters, driven in part by the disruption of online content consumption and proliferation of video content sources which now number 1 billion globally by some counts. Innovation is seen as crucial for the very long term survival of traditional public service broadcasting, which must remainEuropean OTT Boom Spreads South
Migration from linear to on-demand viewing is in full swing across Europe with the one big exception of premium live sports, which is booming across all video outlets. This has been confirmed by various surveys, with a report from UK media regulator Ofcom finding that overall TV viewing in the3D May Be All But Dead But The Craft Lessons Of 3D Are Not
Today, except for the few studio tent pole 3D movies, the format has become all but irrelevant for most non-theatrical applications. Digital photographer Barry Braverman says we still learned from the experience. …At IBC virtually every camera relied on solid-state storage. No more tape, no more cabling back to recorders. Cameras today come with sufficient on-device storage for recording up to several hours of content.
This begs the question about storage. Can content producers afford to store everything on flash?
Broadband Roll Out Continues To Drive IPTV Growth
IPTV is set for further substantial subscriber growth on the back of ongoing broadband roll out and increased capacity across most markets, according to several recent forecasts. …IPTV keeps pay TV growth going
Having been once the new kid on the block IPTV is now part of the pay TV mainstream facing the rising challenge of OTT, but it still has momentum even in the leading developed markets. IPTV single handedly dragged the US pay TV market back to growth in the lastWhy satellite trumps cellular in an emergency
There is a rapid and profound technology shift in ENG. Wireless broadband service providers have become viable low-cost alternatives to conventional microwave in a large number of cases. BT Sport has launched what is claimed to be Europe’s first cellular newsgathering fleet with LiveU LU500 units and Xtender remote
