Growing Pains for OTT
A little over 10 years ago, Netflix launched its streaming service, effectively heralding the dawn of over the top services.
Tom Butts
Now It’s Up to Us
Nov. 16, 2017 could go down in the annals of the U.S. television broadcast history as a fateful day for our industry.
Securing EAS
The nation’s radio and TV broadcasters in September, participated in the second national emergency alert system test initiated by FEMA; by most reports, the second goround went far more smoothly than the first.
A Future of Interoperability?
The transition to IP-based media production and transport in our industry is the most transformative development since the move to digital.
High Hopes for Higher Resolution
First off, let’s dispense with the niceties. All of this talk within the broadcast community about how consumers will react to the quality of 4K/UHD pictures is just that: talk.
What Tom Said: Will Video Eat the Internet?
By 2020, global mobile data traffic will reach 30.6 exabytes per month, (up from 3.7 exabytes in 2015), with video consuming 75 percent of that data traffic.
The Value of Networking
Even after sitting through the umpteenth PowerPoint presentation, our community still prefers to obtain and share its expertise through personal contact.
2015: The Year of OTT
2015 will be remembered for a lot of significant events in our industry—the continuing development of ATSC 3.0, the explosion of interest in virtual and augmented reality as well as drones, the rapid drop in the price of UHDTV sets and the inevitability of the FCC’s spectrum auctions.