The 5G Media Action Group launched at IBC 2019 to promote broadcast over future 5G cellular networks has just held its first General Assembly at the Geneva headquarters of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union).
Following the settlement this summer of a bitter court fight between Fujifilm and Sony over patents relating to the next generation of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) magnetic tape data storage technology, global shipments of LTO-8 media are now reaching end users. It’s a huge relief for large media organizations looking to migrate their assets to the larger capacity cartridges without increasing library footprints.
Part 5 in our series from ‘Real World IP’, a one-day seminar event from The Broadcast Bridge held at BAFTA in London, Phil Myers, Senior Director – IP Systems, Lawo, discusses real-life applications for IP infrastructures including green-field sites, hybrid installations, and remote broadcast.
The emergence of high dynamic range (HDR) acquisition in live and studio production has brought numerous possibilities for improved picture quality and creating an immersive experience for viewers. But it has also added cost and complexity to production workflows that broadcasters and content distributors are not eager to pay.
Successfully deploying 100% SW 100% COTS with uncompressed IP signals.
While SMPTE was creating and ratifying ST2110, the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) announced it was working on a set of Application Program Interface (API) specifications that would enable a wide range of devices (e.g., switchers, audio consoles, and cameras) to be identified, controlled and managed on a SMPTE 2110 network. It brought broadcast engineers and systems integrators the promise of centralized network management without the need to manually configure each piece of equipment before it is used.
As the broadcasting industry is moving from a traditional SDI infrastructure towards the All-IP Studio providing a common frequency and – equally important – an absolute notion of time for all devices is now provided by the underlying infrastructure itself. In this four part series, Thomas Kernen and Nikolaus Kerö investigate the intricacies of PTP timing.
Familiarity breeds contempt and to a certain extent that is what has happened among broadcasters when it comes to serial digital interface (SDI) technology. Since SDI was first standardised by the SMPTE in 1989, broadcasters have forgotten the trials and tribulations they went through to get those initial systems working. Over the past 30 years, products have been developed that have resulted in an almost plug-and-play approach to building SDI-based broadcast infrastructure.
