The FAA just released its long-awaited rules for legally operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for both commercial and personal use. While there are restrictions, some are applauding that the FAA’s decision to drop a requirement for a pilot’s license, requiring instead a test-based special certificate.
Before computers — when the audio for television commercials was edited with razor blades — sound mixers typically created premixed tracks at the beginning of the spot-making process. Then, after computers, the mixer’s role was reversed — with many relegated to simply polishing the final commercial after editing. Now, sound mixers want that to…
Virtual Reality may be one of most hyped trends of 2016, but in the real world many players from a wide range of industries are now furiously working to make VR a media format for the future. But so far — with the technology’s strong support — all of the efforts add up to…
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.
While there’s been a lot of talk about how large multi-channel video distributors—mostly cable and satellite TV—are using highly automated over-the-top (OTT) infrastructures and other forms of streaming methods to reach new customers with on-demand and live audio and video content, many independent TV station groups and indiv…
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).
Laws are different in different countries and I can’t possibly know all the legislation, so what I have to say here should not be taken as a final word on anything. The purpose of this article is to alert the reader to what he or she will need to f…
When most of us think of “over-the-top” television, we think of video programming distributed over the internet by services such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple and a host of other online programmers. But the OTT business is rapidly changing — bringing in a diverse new group of niche players who are filling in th…
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…
It has already been a big year for CDN launches with new entrants along with developments from the large existing players such as Akamai and Amazon. At least three somewhat overlapping themes can be identified, optimization for Ultra HD (UHD) content, CDNs specializing in delivery to mobile devices and moves…
