Violent weather storms are wreaking havoc on the East Coast of the U.S. and radio and TV stations there are struggling to get the life-saving news out. In the past two months alone storms have knocked out TV antenna and broadcast towers at an alarming rate.
Timing accuracy has been a fundamental component of broadcast infrastructures for as long as we’ve transmitted television pictures and sound. The time invariant nature of frame sampling still requires us to provide timing references with sub microsecond accuracy.
Grass Valley, in partnership with the Telos Alliance, is releasing Telos Infinity VIP (Virtual Intercom Platform) on GV AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform), a professional intercom solution for cloud-based media production workflows.
Dialogue is king in television. Let’s face it, you don’t watch an episode of your favorite police procedural or reality show just to listen to the sound design or the incidental music. But whether the content is scripted or unscripted, delivering intelligible dialogue can be a real challenge for the show’s mixer.
Dejero and its UK partner P&C Communications are making reliable, high-bandwidth connectivity accessible to the vibrant UK film and TV production industry through Popup 4G. This rapid deploy, temporary, and robust cloud-based connectivity solution is supported by Dejero GateWay network aggregation.
Arvato Systems’ VidiNet now offers the possibility to access all functions of the BATON QC system from Interra Systems as a cloud service.
For the past year an international group of technology companies, funded by the European Union (EU), has been looking into the use of 5G technology to streamline live and studio production in the hopes of distributing more content to (and from) viewers faster and more efficiently. Due to the restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus, most of the work thus far has been completed remotely.
Advanced Systems Group (ASG) has allied with Vizrt to integrate the Viz Vectar Plus software-based live production switcher into ASG’s Virtual Production Control Room. It will do so using Vizrt’s NDI video-over-IP protocol. NDI is also a component in the VPCR ecosystem.
