Achieving higher levels of scalability and flexibility demands a hybrid approach were microservices run in the cloud, on- and off-prem. Also, common APIs hide the complexity of the infrastructure from the user to provide a seamless operation.
Master Control and automation systems have been at the heart of broadcast television facility for decades, ensuring that content—programming and advertising spots—gets to the right place at the right time. And while they have served the industry well in that time, these once state-of-the-art systems were comprised of expensive dedicated hardware that often forced customers to work in a very limited and proprietary way.
GatesAir, a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary dedicated to wireless content delivery, enters its second century in business with new over-the-air broadcast innovations on the horizon for NAB Show 2023.
Streaming video is on the cusp of becoming a major problem for broadband networks. Up to now we have been dealing with a swell in the streaming sea that has caused a few large waves to crash on to the shores of broadband networks. These waves have made headlines in the press because they caused high-profile failures in the delivery of high-quality video experiences. But we are about to see a huge Tsunami emerge as broadcasters finally make a big shift towards streaming-first.
Production and media services company Gravity Media has just completed the first phase of technology integration at its new London Production Centre White City, located on the fifth floor of The Westworks building in London. The state-of-the-art facility, officially opened in February of 2022, is made up of production, post-production services, live studios; master control and 24/7 connectivity to a nearby uplink facility in Chiswick, London for fast digital distribution to a variety of content owners, sports federations and OTT platforms.
Now that interlace is obsolete, we are left only with the problem of dealing with archive material that exists in the interlaced format. The overwhelming majority of video tapes, whether component or composite, analog or digital, would be interlaced.
The technology underpinning the Metaverse is providing opportunities for broadcasters today. As the Metaverse develops, broadcasters will be able to gain massively from the enhanced immersive experience it promises to offer.
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Claro, the biggest mobile operator in Brazil and Latin America, Rohde & Schwarz, a leader in broadcast transmitter and media technologies, and Qualcomm Technologies, the driving force behind the development, launch and expansion of 5G, joined forces at Open Rio 2023 to showcase the potential of 5G Broadcast/Multicast to drive new business models and transform the way content is delivered.
