The first burst error correcting code was the Fire Code, which was once widely used on hard disk drives. Here we look at how it works and how it was used.
Video encoding is running up against a complexity barrier that is raising costs and reducing scope for further improvements in quality.
Compared to simple ATSC 1.0 PSIP, ATSC 3.0 Signaling & Announcement data tells Nextgen TV receivers about incoming data structures, their interrelations, and what to do.
If an 8K content service from OTT providers like Amazon, Netflix and YouTube is ever going to be successful, and that’s still a hot topic of debate, new types of compression will have to be part of the solution. Terrestrial broadcasters don’t have the infrastructure to handle it, regardless of the compression used.
Need a live shot from inside an unmarked moving rental sedan during a thunderstorm? No problem.
Gamma is a topic that pervades almost all forms of image portrayal, including film, television and computers. Gamma has become a tradition, which means that its origins are not understood, and it is not questioned. Perhaps it is time that it was.
Program delivery to mobile devices and smart televisions has fueled the growth for internet delivery. But one of the challenges broadcasters and media content providers face is that the internet was never originally designed to stream large amounts of video and audio with virtually no dropout or latency.
There are two basic reasons to know the level of an audio signal. One of these is more technical and one of them is more subjective.
