Over the past five years, the ways in which we choose to watch television have shifted dramatically. It wasn’t too long ago that live TV was the only option available to us. We had to make sure we were seated with the television on, at the time our favourite…
Protecting the security of media is sometimes an unresolved issue. The first step to securing valuable content is a thorough review to identify any gaps in a facility’s security plan. Then, implement industry best practices and security layers to safeguard those assets.
The reliability of SFN transmitters is crucial. However, some SFN sites can be more crucial than others, such as the ones that cover where the most viewers and sponsors are located.
IP’s suitability for live broadcasting is no longer debatable. It’s been proven in a variety of real-world global deployments over the past several years. Even so, there’s lingering skepticism around IP and a surprising lack of understanding.
In this series of articles, we will explain broadcasting for IT engineers. Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and todays broadcast formats are heavily dependent on decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In the last article we looked at the incredibly complex relationship between lines and…
AlphaDogs is one of the west coast’s premiere post houses, but even they find the prospect of creating UHD projects challenging.
Interest in TV SFNs is growing because ATSC 3.0 is designed to leverage SFNs for maximum bandwidth, with Pearl and Sinclair scouting the trail to a new way of broadcasting. SFNs aren’t new. Springfield MO Fox affiliate KRBK has been operating a multi-transmitter ATSC 1.0 SFN for several years. How is 3.0 g…
The transformation of the media and entertainment workflow from discrete, server-based silos to software-based environments is well underway. As the industry makes this shift, media companies find that placing a scale-out storage solution at the heart of the IP workflow yields the additional benefits of improved flexibility and cost savings.
If you’re like me, looking through layers of buried menus on digital devices for the one thing you need to do is enough to drive you batty. Yet, virtually every digital device in our lives today — from smartphones to cameras to simple audio recorders — comes with layer upon layer of me…
John Watkinson puts on his snake-oil-proof clothing and looks at speaker cables. Finally, some clarity behind the myths and magic that surround technical aspects of speaker interconnections.
