It’s traditional for film and TV technical journalists to play soothsayer in the run-up to major industry events. With NAB and Cine Gear virtual this year and the world’s manufacturers having enjoyed an unprecedented stretch of downtime to hatch their next technological plots, the temptation to speculate has never been greater.
Quicklink has announced a series of virtual NAB 2021 webinars that will take place on the 5th and 6th of October.
APTN used Polygon solutions for its news coverage of the Canadian Election. This includes the company’s data aggregation and visualization platform Ipsum, which aggregates data from the Canadian press and distributes it in real-time to APTN’s Vizrt newsroom graphics templates, PCR playout and ticker Viz Engines.
Practically all communication, including broadcasting, relies totally on electromagnetic waves that may be radiated far and wide from transmitters or guided along wires, waveguides or optical fibers.
Exstreamer audio over IP codecs from Barix are used for applications ranging from studio-to-transmitter (STL) and studio-to-studio (SSL) links to remote contribution from the field. The Exstreamer M400 IP audio decoder supports AES67.
The focus of much of the latest broadcast TV R&D is the Remote Integration Model (REMI). From millions of Skype meetings over consumer ISPs to the recent Winter Olympics TV broadcasts, REMI is significantly changing the internal dynamics of live, between-the-glass, remote TV production and viewing.
Maxon, a German based developer of software for motion designers and visual effects artists, has introduced updates to applications within its Maxon One product range.
Television is still a niche industry, but nonetheless, one of the most powerful storytelling mediums in existence. Whether reporting news events, delivering educational seminars, or product reviews, television still outperforms all other mediums in terms of its ability to communicate to mass audiences.
