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2017 NAB Show - The thrill, expectation and excitement, followed by deep depression. Given all the pre-NAB show build up, I expected more. Instead I found there was no real buzz or promotion of – well- anything. The crowds were light and truck land was mostly barren.
I was recently at a graphic technology event and while chatting I mentioned my niece was a graphic designer with an understanding of our industry. A colleague commented that no one knows what IRE is anymore. I had to agree thinking she probably didn’t either. The more serious issue is where is the relevance to IRE in the digital world? His response was that it was just good that pixels are finally square and not in any aspect ratio.
Ten Years Later: NBC Sports’ Stamford Facility Grows With The Times
It was ten years ago, in the fall of 2012, that NBCUniversal opened a new international broadcast center in Stamford Connecticut, as the home for NBC Sports. It served as a way to consolidate its growing employee base and the production activities of a number of physical assets the network ownedIP solutions were top-of-mind at IBC and NAB. The question remains, are they real.
Surviving the Early Adoption to IP
Broadcasters now find themselves on one side of a digital gap. On one side we have SDI, the other side IP. Engineers want to reach the far shore, but do so without sacrificing their investment in current SDI solutions. This article reviews some of the key concerns engineers may faceViewpoint: IP-technology: Is it real or just a mirage?
IP technology is already here and capable of delivering end-to-end, reliable and high-quality IP workflows. Indeed, we have already seen some examples of this, including Sky in the UK which uses end-to-end IP and end-to-end software every day for news coverage …MicroServices Bring New Agility And Cost Savings To IP-Based Content Delivery
Broadcast equipment suppliers continue to add new types of IT-centric functionality to their signal distribution and playout platforms, leveraging the cost and operational benefits of COTS hardware and Software Defined Networks (SDN) as a way to attract new types of customers that increasingly require the handing of hundreds or thousandsLike all technology, content monitoring for broadcast and media services is a moving target, one that must support present and future content transport across all media format standards. In the past, the world was practically one-dimensional with uniform and specialized transport technologies and media formats in contribution and distribution environments, respectively. The type and number of end devices consuming broadcast services was limited to TV sets and radios. Such devices did not have any true intelligence or ‘connectivity’ of their own.
Consequently, monitoring devices were subject to the same static requirements. Their resulting technical architectures were mostly hardware-oriented.
This approach worked well as long as the broadcast environment did not change too much. However, specialized and focused hardware-dominated solutions are known to become inflexible and insufficient as soon as customer needs and application scenarios become highly dynamic.
TV, Version 33—The Next Milestone
Is the TV industry due for the next big thing? …SMPTE ST-2110 - “We are Family”
SMPTE ST 2110 is currently in final draft and possibly will soon be published. Different from previous SMPTE standards, SMPTE 2110 is a Family of Standards covering live production based on IP. However, because it is still under wraps in the secret world of committee, there is scant information on where things