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The Sponsors Perspective: Media Companies - Advance Your Security And Innovation Lifecycles December 27th 2019 - 09:00 AM

Hackers are always improving the level of sophistication and constantly finding new surface areas to attack – resulting in the surging volume and frequency of cyberattacks.

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T&M enables content creators to build the best foundation in the prime space within the technical boundaries of video signal standards.

TV T&M For The New Decade, Part 1 December 19th 2019 - 09:00 AM

An engineering assessment of broadcast TV T&M needs and solutions in late 2019 suggests the new decade will bring more needs and solutions. A revelation such as this was once news.

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The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) has had some recent successes combating content theft and illicit redistribution in Europe.

Video Piracy Declines In EU December 18th 2019 - 09:00 AM

Media content piracy declined by an average 15% across Europe during 2018 according to the European Union (EU) Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), contradicting the popular notion that the problem is getting out of hand in the streaming era.

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Color and Colorimetry – Part 7 – CIE XYZ December 16th 2019 - 09:00 AM

The rg color space served to document the chromaticity gamut of the HVS, and so was a great step forward in understanding color and color vision. However, it was based on a certain set of primaries. As no set of primaries can embrace the whole of the HVS gamut, it is inevitable that the color matching functions have negative excursions. The CIE set out to remedy that by taking the color matching experimental data and representing it in a different way. The color space they developed is a cube having three orthogonal axes, X, Y and Z. The white point was defined as the equal energy point, otherwise known as Illuminant E (for equal).

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For live, on-air broadcast operation, photorealism is one of the toughest challenges.

Real-Time On-Air Virtual Set Production Takes Off December 13th 2019 - 10:00 AM

The use of photorealistic technology is changing the way broadcasters are looking at virtual sets. Now it is possible to create scenes that are indistinguishable from reality, which provides excellent new possibilities for enhancing storytelling.

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PTP Explained - Part 4 - Requirement’s For Virtualisation Of ST 2110 COTS Infrastructures December 10th 2019 - 10:00 AM

In the fourth and final part of this series, we wrap up with an explanation on how PTP is used to support SMPTE ST 2110 based services, we dive into timing constraints related to using COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) hardware, i.e.: servers.

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DVB-I was designed to raise internet delivery to the standard of broadcast for linear TV.

DVB-I Standard Approved For IP Centric TV December 4th 2019 - 09:00 AM

DVB, the consortium developing open technical specifications for delivery of broadcast services, has formally approved its DVB-I specification for delivery of linear TV over IP networks including the internet.

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Apple TV Plus Puts Spotlight On Low Latency Streaming And CMAF December 3rd 2019 - 10:00 AM

The recent launch of Apple’s TV Plus service bulked up with original TV shows costing $6 billion to produce has disrupted global attempts to unify streaming behind a common set of protocols for encoding, packaging, storing and playing back video delivered over the internet.

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