IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 1 - The Command Line Interface

Being faced with an IP and file-based broadcast environment can be daunting if you are not already an experienced Information Technology systems administrator. This series of articles will help you acquire the skills one-by-one to monitor and diagnose problems from the UNIX command line. Then you can build more sophisticated tools of your own to manage and automate your systems.

Innovating The Interactive Sports Fan Experience - Monumental Sports Network Are Early Adopters

As we continue our dive into the new frontier of Interactive Rights we explore the first steps taken by an early adopter. Monumental Sports Network in Washington are far from implementing a complete portfolio of interactive enhancements to their broadcasts but their first steps have already added enhanced viewer experiences…

Building Software Defined Infrastructure: Asynchronous & Synchronous Media Processing

One of the key challenges of building software defined infrastructure is moving to a fundamentally synchronous media like video to an asynchronous architecture.

Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast: Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure

If we take cloud infrastructures to their extreme, that is, their physical locality is unknown to us, then monitoring them becomes a whole new ball game, especially as dispersed teams use them for production.

Neutral TV Operating Systems

TV OSs have become pivotal to both smart TVs and streaming services as consumers continue to cut the cord. There is growing interest not just among TV makers but also major streaming and advertising platforms in neutral TV OSs independent of the underlying content, allowing them to impose their own…

Phil Rhodes Image Capture NAB 2025 Show Floor Report

Our resident image capture expert Phil Rhodes offers up his own personal impressions of the technology he encountered walking the halls at the 2025 NAB Show.

Focus On Agility

Just when broadcasters and AV providers are starting to put their heads around the Second Wave of IP, industry pioneers are already contemplating the next big infrastructure thing. It promises to be even more compact and faster than before.

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The DOP As Sound Recordist: 32-BIT Float Is Our Godsend

As a cinematographer with several decades of experience on feature films and large broadcast projects, my current work on smaller productions and documentaries has increasingly added the duties of a sound recordist, and with it a greater appreciation for 32-bit float recording.

Sweden’s Accelerating Journey From DTT To OTT

2025 may be a watershed year for the broadcast delivery switchover from DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) to IP (Internet Protocol). We know that an increasing number of viewers of broadcaster content are turning to their favorite streaming apps to watch the broadcaster’s VOD, live, and linear content. We also know…

Building Hybrid IP Systems

It is easy to assume that the industry is inevitably and rapidly making the move to all-IP infrastructures to leverage IP’s flexibility and scalability, but the reality is often a bit more complex.