Live Sports Production: Part 3 – Evolving OB Infrastructure

Welcome to Part 3 of ‘Live Sports Production’ - This multi-part series uses a round table style format to explore the technology of live sports production with some of the industry’s leading broadcast engineers. It is a fascinating insight into what is being done every day around the world.

Part 3 dives a little deeper into the infrastructure differences between Full OB, Full Remote and Hybrid workflows with a…

Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast: Part 3 - Production Systems

‘Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast’ explores how exemplary content production and delivery standards are maintained and legal obligations are met. The series includes four Themed Content Collections, each of which tackles a different area of the media supply chain.

Part 3 contains three articles which discuss things to consider for…

Sports Graphics Production: Data Driven Visualization In Sports

Here we chart the evolution of data visualization in sports broadcast, examine the technology & workflow, and pivotal role of ML in current immersive production techniques.

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 8 - Caching The Results

Storing monitoring outcomes in temporary cache containers separates the observation and diagnostic processes so they can run independently of the centralised marshalling and reporting process.

The Future Of American Television?

To maximize the “wow factor,” a new technology must be undeniably better, faster and/or cheaper. It must also have sufficient impact to knock everyone’s socks off, like flat-panel HDTV compared to a NTSC 19” Trinitron TV. NextGen TV technology is learning to crawl before it knocks everyone’s socks off, and…

Sports Graphics Production: Sports Data Management

Those who work with data driven systems know that reliably acquiring data is only part of the battle - data is often not in the right format and needs to be delivered for use structured in the right way.

Broadcast Standards – Cloud Compute Infrastructure – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of ‘Broadcast Standards – Cloud Compute Infrastructure’. This collection of articles builds on the huge foundations of the enormously popular ‘Broadcast Standards - The Book’ by Cliff Wootton. As we progress on another year long epic editorial journey, Cliff applies his unique standards focused technical rigor…

A National Blueprint For Video Streaming Delivery

The shift from DTT to OTT centric delivery and full-scale streaming is set to generate growth in required capacity of 10x current peak streaming demand. Here we use the UK as a model to present a theoretical new streaming infrastructure based on a unified edge network.

Sports Graphics Production: Data Sources For Live Sports Graphics

The first step in data driven sports graphics production is gathering the data itself. The nature of that data can vary dramatically from sport to sport. Here we discuss some of the data gathering technology and techniques required.

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 7 - Remote Agents

How to run diagnostic processes in each machine and call them remotely from a centralised system that can marshal the results from many other networked systems. Remote agents act on behalf of that central system and pass results back to it on demand.