The global high dynamic range (HDR) market is expected to surpass $126 million by 2030, according to Allied Market Research. The projection shouldn’t come as a shock to media and entertainment (M&E) professionals who have been delivering HDR content for platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and others for years. Meanwhile, HDR-capable displays have become standard in most production and post environments and across consumer displays. With these developments, HDR has emerged as the preferred production standard, and with just cause; HDR enhances imagery in ways resolution alone can’t while making for a more dynamic audience experience.
IP is an enabling technology that facilitates the use of data centers and cloud technology to power media workflows. The speed with which COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) hardware can now process data means video and audio signals can be transcoded, edited, and transferred with speeds that are fast enough for real-time live and file-based workflows.
Compression is almost taken for granted despite its incredible complexity. But it’s worth remembering how compression has developed so we can progress further.
The multi award winning team at Goldcrest share their creative insight and technique through an exploration of the subtle soundscape for Billions.
If we could get lights capable of full color mixing at the same price as conventional white-only ones, would we?
Distributing error free IP media streams is only half the battle when building reliable broadcast infrastructures. SDP files must match their associated IP media essence or downstream equipment will not be able to decode it. In this article we dig deeper into SDP files and media IP streams to understand how to keep broadcast infrastructures dependable.
John Watkinson moves on to discussion of the effects of the medium waves are travelling in and explains why loudspeaker enclosures contain foam.
Podcasting is an increasingly popular pastime in the U.S., with an estimated 120 million podcast listeners in 2021. Back in 2006, only 22 percent of the adult population was aware of podcasting. By 2021, this figure had risen to 78 percent. Podcasting is becoming an important part of the multi-format mix for many broadcasters.
