Britain’s exit from the European Union will be “devastating” for the UK’s creative industries and “negative” on the country’s overall tech sector, according to pundits and analysts. It was hard to find any positive predictions following the results of the national referendum.
I was all set to write my next chapter on standards and terminology when the The Broadcast Bridge published an article quoting the Olympic Broadcast Service (OBS) that said, 4K is just a Bus Stop to 8K (along with 22.2 audio channels).
As the industry increasingly adopts IP and virtualisation technologies, the role of the video server is rapidly changing toward being a tool for managing the process of converting streams to files and vice versa, whatever flavour those streams/files happen to be in. In part two of an examination of these changes The Broadcast Bridge airs the views of Dalet, Harmonic and Grass Valley.
Since the dawn of digital production, many links in the workflow chain have produced their own metadata. Now the “Production in the Cloud” project is making all that metadata useful.
Since 2012 many moviegoers have been captivated by the nearly two thousand theaters throughout the world that have installed Dolby’s 3D immersive sound system called Dolby Atmos. Since then Dolby has worked to also make the technology available for live broadcasts, home theater systems and even stereo headphones.
The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) has raised hopes that the first preliminary standard covering VR (Virtual Reality) will be set before the end of 2016. This follows a recent meeting in Geneva comprising some of the main standards bodies in TV, including JPEG, MPEG, DVB and EBU (European Broadcasting Union) as well as the ITU itself.
When a potential new entertainment medium like Virtual Reality bursts onto the Hollywood scene, SMPTE tries to help us understand its implications.
Fairlight is collaborating with DTS and the University of Salford, located in Manchester, UK, to develop a new approach to assist sound engineers with live sports productions.
