Broadcast Standards – The Book is a unique reference resource for broadcast engineers, operators and system designers. Never before has such a huge body of broadcast industry specific information been collated from international standards bodies and distilled into a single source of data.
This free eBook took a whole year to create and draws on a wealth of personal research by author Cliff Wootton. It contains 26 chapters, 255 pages, over 65,000 words and references another 19 Appendix articles online.
Our resident provocateur Dave Shapton speculates on the nature of compression and its potential future evolutionary path.
Once the basic requirements for reproducing sound were in place, the most significant next step was to reproduce to some extent the spatial attributes of sound. Stereophony, using two channels, was the first successful system.
As we continue our dive into the new frontier of Interactive Rights we delve deeper into the Interactive Rights technology ecosystem with an exploration of the required functionality and the components required to deliver it.
After some trials of varying success, European broadcasters are most interested in exploiting 5G Broadcast as part of their hybrid offerings with hopes of reaching mobile devices. The key missing ingredient is support by the major device makers.
MainConcept, a provider of video and audio codecs, has announced a partnership with cloud playout solutions provider, Veset, to integrate its JPEG XS SDK into Veset’s cloud playout solution, Veset Nimbus. This integration will enable broadcasters to leverage JPEG XS technology to deliver high-quality live TV with minimal latency for an enhanced viewing experience.
As users working from home are no longer limited to their working environment by the concept of a physical location, and infrastructures are moving more and more to the cloud-hybrid approach, the outdated concept of perimeter security is moving aside for zero-trust security.
Consumer demands and innovations in display technology might change things for the future but it is standardization which perhaps holds the most potential for benefit to broadcasters.
