Legacy operations like production and playout are gradually moving to the cloud as more systems connect to a facility’s IT backbone. These advances have opened the door to also moving operations-based tasks like QC and QoS monitoring to the cloud.
In a recent survey, we asked a handful of leading media facilities in Europe and North America, among other things, to what extent they agreed with the following two statements:
1. There are too many manual steps in my workflow.
2. There is potential to reduce the number of manual steps through…
At the beginning of each new year, I back up essential video, audio, photographic and text files onto SSD memory and take them to a safe deposit box at my bank. I do this off-premise backup in addition to online cloud backup and redundant back-up on a Drobo hard disk…
Using fiber optic links to interconnect RF for wireless microphones offers many benefits. Clean signals, much longer interconnect distances and easy build-out are among the advantages an RF-over-Fiber solution can bring.
Now it is the turn of IPTV operators to feel the pinch of cord cutting in the US while their cable competitors are holding firmer against the OTT onslaught. At one time IPTV was seen as the new wave undercutting the legacy satellite and cable operators, but now that it…
A group of manufacturers have come together to form a group promoting a set of open standards for transitioning the industry to IP. Founder members Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Lawo, Snell Advanced Media and Nevion are initially promoting promoting the implementation of SMPTE 2022-6, audio over IP standard AES67 and…
You don’t have to be a TV broadcaster for long to learn that lights, cameras and call letters can be fruitcake magnets. Several times in 2015, misfits turned local TV news into national news. This dangerous trend illustrates the escalation of illegal activities interrupting the otherwise controlled chaos of live l…
As the broadcast industry continues its calculated migration from SDI to Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructures—and all of the targeted file transfers, reduced equipment costs and resolution independence that comes with it—many of the major equipment vendors have begun forming alliances to support each other’s efforts and ensure inter…
Some who shoot RAW using a digital cinema camera claim those who shoot with a video camcorder must live with the camera’s built-in look—a look designed by engineers in Japan. They also claim when you shoot with a digital cinema camera, during color grading you are able to “desig…
PTP - Precision Time Protocol is the new “BLACK”. PTP is a more accurate version of NTP – Network Time Protocol, which controls the synchronizing and timing of data packets in the IP environment. In the world of bits and bytes, locking each bit to a slice of time must be highl…
