Standards: Video - High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)

Designed to halve the bitrate of AVC while supporting resolutions up to 16K, HEVC represents a significant leap in video coding efficiency. This guide explores its profiles, tiers and levels, and examines whether it can overcome the challenges of entrenched AVC adoption.

Discoverability And Findability: Part 1 – Services Of General Interest In The Streaming Age

In this first of two parts on content discoverability and findability we discuss the underlying issues and challenges facing broadcasters as they strive to stay relevant in an era of mass streaming and AI-based search. The second part will then drill down into the relevant technologies and how these can…

Production–Delivery Convergence: Part 6 - Designing Experiences That Viewers Trust

Performance reliability is an invisible contract between a streaming service and its customer, and it is fundamental to guaranteeing viewer retention. The problem is that performance isn’t just about delivery. Here we identify where to look and why it’s critical to take a much wider view of the whole signal…

SMPTE Education Launches Summer 2026 Lineup Of IP And ST 2110 Courses

Boasting two standalone courses, an intensive boot camp, and a hands-on practical lab, SMPTE Education has launched its summer 2026 Lineup of IP and ST 2110 Courses.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Principles, Terminology & Technology

The technology and techniques of virtual production, from the camera back through the video wall, processors, and rendering servers.

Standards: Video - Advanced Video Coding (AVC)

AVC remains one of the most widely deployed video codecs in the world, but navigating its profiles, levels and signaling mechanisms is far from straightforward.

Live Sports & Monetization: Public Service Broadcasters Maximizing Live Sports Opportunities

PSBs across the world are making the most of limited resources to enrich live sports coverage around ancillary content and platforms, and monetizing the resulting services. Here we focus on the content and coverage rather than technical issues around workflow and multi-platform distribution.

Production–Delivery Convergence: Part 5 - Scaling The Future

The streaming industry is delivering richer formats, more personalization, and more immersive viewing experiences. There’s just one problem – how can the global delivery ecosystem support it?

Network Traffic Engineering: RIST & SRT - The Success Of ARQ Based Protocols

IP networks are inherently unreliable. We kick off this series on IP Network Traffic Engineering with a look at how RIST and SRT give broadcast engineers user-configurable control over the latency-versus-reliability trade-off for real-time media streaming.

Standards: Video - Standards For Video Coding

From 4K to 32K, the demand for ever-larger video formats is pushing codec technology to its limits. This guide surveys the landscape of video coding standards – from legacy MPEG formats to AI-driven neural network compression – to help navigate the choices shaping the future of video delivery.