While international broadcasters covering this years Summer Olympic Games in Rio mostly worked in HD, 1920x1080, NBC used a fair bit of Ultra-HD equipment to cover specific events, such as the opening and closing ceremonies. The 4X HD resolution provided visual excitement to the events, even in slow motion.
Never before — in the entire history of television broadcasting — have the challenges been greater for local television stations. Groups of stations must avoid duplicating content and control costs, while operating in a multi-content, multi-platform world. How do stations approach being competitive in today’s changing broadcast environment?
KVM is more important now for broadcast-IP systems than it ever has been. As manufacturers turn to server based architectures private cloud installations have become more mainstream, requiring us to configure systems through traditional server control inputs, that is keyboard, video and mouse.
As OTT consumption continues to rise, broadcasters and content distributors see the cloud as a way to respond to an insatiable demand for new channels. Likewise, the cloud seems to be a good solution to disaster recovery (DR). Cynics, however, are quick to note that the cloud, especially a public cloud, is unproven and unprepared both in terms of security and the QoS required by broadcasters.
Is it possible to build one’s own asset management solution? Before you begin, let’s consider the challenges.
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The Duchess of Windsor, the American wife of the man who was previously England’s King Edward VIII, famously said: “You can never be too rich or too thin”. If she’d lived in the 21st century, she might have added: “… or have too much bandwidth”.
You don’t have to look very far to see yet another industry story on ‘cord cutting’. With more viewers seeking less costly ways to watch TV, broadcasters must be concerned about their potential for dwindling audiences.
The goals of live IP production include the broadcast of live events, managing content for video switchers, viewing the content live, and switching and mixing the content for live program creation. Output may be IP, SDI or both. Can we do all that today?
