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The IPTV picture
IPTV is said to be what you want, when you want it, or essentially video on demand. It evolved as a way for owners of the telephone system infrastructure
Video over Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is all around us, destined to be as ubiquitous as terrestrial broadcast. Can it eventually replace broadcast? Could it make DTV obsolete in a short
Mobile video technology
Mobile DTV is continuing to roll out in the United States. The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) recently projected that the new service will reach more
Interactive services
The killer app of computer interactivity, when considering popularity, is probably the Web browser. But interactivity requires more than just a browser;
Mobile video technology
With the ATSC standard for mobile DTV released last year, and the potential for a half-billion worldwide mobile TV subscribers by 2013 (according to ABI
Broadcast monitors
Video monitoring technology continues to evolve at an amazing pace. Just consider the variety of new broadcast and production monitors that were announced
MPEG-4 AVC
With the growing interest in repurposing video to multiple media and diverse means of display, including mobile TV systems, it is useful to consider how
Video interfaces
Professional digital interfaces continue to evolve in parallel with higher-resolution professional and consumer video formats. The once simple arena of
DRM keys
Content managers are worried that their content will be illegally pirated, and content users are worried that their content use will be unfairly restricted.
Elements of DRM
Digital rights management (DRM) has come to mean the combination of content protection (by means of encryption) with entitlement rules (conditional access,
Media wrappers
Broadcasting today relies on the ingest, storage and playout of content involving many different tape- and file-based media. With the migration toward
Digital audio processors
Signal processing for analog broadcast is a combination of two functions: control of perceived sound (for competitive advantage), and meeting FCC constraints
Tame those artifacts
While we all know that compression causes artifacts, just how much do you know about what causes them and how to reduce them? While the occurrence of
Managing lip sync
Technological progress often seems to occur haltingly: two steps forward, one step back. With the advent of digital processing, video processing began
Get connected
Learn how to properly connect video devices to ensure maximum performance and quality.
Managing lip sync
Solving this problem requires knowledge on how analog video becomes digital
Monitoring networks
With broadcasting shifting to digital facilities, maintenance of operations is becoming more of an exercise in managing information technology. The lines
