The great promise of IP is to create a truly open and interoperable environment for the smooth plug and play of best of breed technologies. A bit like SDI in fact, but with greater potential for economic and creative benefit. There are a number of overlapping initiatives trying to solve…
Dolby Laboratories has announced major partnerships that will bring Dolby Vision to your living room HDR TV faster than 4K video is becoming available. Look for it in home movie releases and theaters, too.
Despite the explosion in Over-the-Top (OTT) in the last year or so, it is still linear TV that attracts the majority of viewers by a long way. One of the major drawbacks of OTT has been its failure to address and capitalize on live content in a way that traditional…
If adding captions to your streaming content – whether it’s on-demand or live – feels daunting, you’re not alone. Both present new challenges that arise in step with fast-evolving formats and consumer tastes.
This is the story of one of two ATSC 3.0 experimental transmissions that took place at CES 2016. Under a FCC Special Temporary Authority permit for Channel 18, station KHMP transmitted an ATSC 3.0 UHD signal to the LG CES exhibit booth using a GatesAir transmitter and Dielectric antenna. The other CES ATSC 3.0 demonstration…
Broadcasters face tough competition today. A variety of different news outlets are competing for the same story compounded by the fact that television viewers have a desire to be aware of news as it happens. If a broadcaster doesn’t tell a news story first and offer a unique perspective, v…
The pressure to reduce the TCO of today’s SDI broadcast infrastructures makes an all IP infrastructure solution appealing. But to reach that goal, a facility needs to leverage existing technology with new software-based media processing applications on COTS servers. Here are some suggested steps.
The dedicated AV switcher represents more than a $2B market. Even so, the latest generation of IP technology can distribute video, audio, and control signals over long distances at much lower costs, signaling a clear threat to dedicated AV switcher solutions.
When ATSC 3.0 proponents ran a broadcast test of a UHD signal over-the-air during CES 2016, the results proved the viability of this new IP-based transmission technology. But did anybody understand the significance?
Not even a success yet, 4K video is now getting some enhancements and is being rebranded as Ultra HD Premium. Engineering experts have long said that 4K alone does not have the “wow” factor to jump out at consumers. Premium adds the visible attributes that manufacturers hope will make 4K a m…
