Many productions rely on multiple cameras, sometimes from different manufacturers. This creates a color-space problem in production. Lattice can help resolve those issues by color matching the images.
Today’s smartphone owners carry more powerful video technology in their pockets than the best state-of-the-art TV broadcast or production facilities could provide two decades ago at any price. The second decade of this century is when off-the-shelf computing matures to the point that it can facilitate and manage nearly all technology-based tasks in broadcast TV stations and TV networks in real-time.
Video over HDMI has proven for more than a decade it has a place in professional and broadcast TV infrastructures and its use continues to grow. Will HDMI replace the SDI interface?
The choice between systems for ATSC 3.0 audio is now down to MPEG-H versus Dolby AC-4 and there is about equal support for each system. It’s now mired in politics within the committee, though a decision is due by the end of 2015.
Interest is growing in the broadcast industry about the AES67 standard, and its potential benefits as users transition from wired to networked audio systems.
The Media Networking Alliance has issued a maintenance revision to AES67-2013, the AES standard for high-performance streaming audio-over-IP interoperability.
The inevitable merging of computer networking technology and audio distribution has arrived. Now is a good time to re-examine the assumptions and concerns that are holding some professionals back from choosing audio over IP solutions, as decisions made today will affect their facilities and clients for years to come.
The growing ability of CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) to enable live video streaming over the Internet was a major theme at the Content Delivery World 2015 forum in London on October 5-7. Vendors and operators agreed that virtualization of the CDN was essential for scaling high quality OTT services by separating network control from the underlying hardware, avoiding reliance on a specific configuration that might run out of capacity. With virtualization, a given service can call on large reserves of capacity as required to meet peak demand.
