The Advantages of Cloud-Based Closed Captioning
Tech eases the way for content creators and FCC compliance
Broadcast Engineering
Is It Live, or Is It Automated Speech Recognition?
This question of real versus artificial can be applied to the captioning industry, too, as technology has enabled speech recognition software to compete with humans to create captions.
Are Smartphones the Future of TV News? Part 2
If smartphone newsgathering really is the wave of the future and not some pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, which television station or network will be first to catch that wave and dump most of its ENG systems and methods into that same bone yard we piled film cameras, processors, Moviolas, splicers and film chains back in the 70s?
What Broadcasters Can Learn from Telcos About IP
Over the last 20 years or so, fixed telecoms service providers have undergone fundamental changes in the way they operate.
To Cloud or Not To Cloud? Is That the Wrong Question?
In under 10 years, the concepts of public cloud computing and virtualization of computing resources have disrupted all of the perceived wisdoms of IT system design.
Harnessing a New Opportunity: The Transition to IP in the Contribution Space
Viewer demand for better quality is far from a new phenomenon.
Confessions Of A Tall-Tower Worker
Paul Fitts is one of the very few U.S. communications tower workers qualified to handle “tall” tower jobs, a skill that’s now very much in demand due to the on-going spectrum repack.
Capturing and Monitoring HDR Signals With a Waveform Monitor
Many of today’s cameras can capture a wide dynamic range that, unfortunately, will be clipped or blown out when shown on a standard dynamic range display.
What Are We Going to do With TV?
A colleague of mine recently passed along a Reader’s Digest article titled “What are we going to do with TV?” from November 1950.
4K for Broadcast: Is it Worth the Expense?
I expect most people have a general understanding of the law of diminishing returns.
The Evolution of Cloud-Native Technology for Media Processing
Video infrastructure is changing. Traditionally, broadcast infrastructure was entirely based on hardware. But as video content and service providers look to launch broadcast and OTT services faster, gain operational efficiencies and reduce OPEX and CAPEX, they are shifting to software-based and cloud workflows.
Getting The Word Out To The Viewers
Although Television Hill is a very visible city landmark and is located adjacent to a major arterial into Baltimore traveled by thousands of vehicles each day, there is no signage to indicate exactly what it is and/or what takes place there.
Is It Time to Think About 8K?
For the past several years, the video industry has been promoting 4K and the inclusion of “HDR” (high dynamic range) to boost the dynamics of color.
Broadcasting Faces a Coming Crisis
Without IT skillsets, broadcast engineers could become irrelevant
Doesn’t Anyone Ever Build Anything Anymore?
Recalling part of what made broadcast engineering fun
Evaluating Professional Online M&E Platforms, Part 2
Part 2 explores some of the technical operations cloud-based platforms need to function properly in a digital supply chain.
Getting Up Close and Personal With the Earth
A decade ago the BBC natural history series, Planet Earth, mesmerized viewers worldwide with some of the world’s most amazing wildlife footage and HD imagery of any kind yet broadcast in HD.
Broadcast Engineering Conference Embraces IT
New name reflects how definition of broadcasting has changed
Evaluating Professional Online M&E Platforms Part I
The retooling of the entertainment industry’s production technology through digital image capture means that workflows from acquisition through distribution for television and film are now exclusively file-centric.
A ‘Tipping Point’ for ATSC 3.0 Standards Development
The amount of progress made over the last couple of months on the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards is quite impressive.
Smaller Market LPTVs Optimistic Post-Auction
At this time last year, the spectrum auction was on the horizon—and so was a great deal of uncertainty for LPTV stations.
VidTrans Invigorates Push to All-IP Studio
The annual VidTrans conference, Feb. 28-March 2, at the Marina del Rey Marriott, has long been a place where new video transport formats get their first public showing, and the 2017 edition is no different; once again it’s stuffed full of fresh technologies.
The Timing of ATSC 3.0 Could Not Be Better
Consumers want the experience of streaming media everywhere, anytime.