When we look at the various TV packages available today, the vast majority of pay-TV service providers are failing to maximize the amount of data that can be attributed to all the content that is watched by viewers. Yet, in an era where personalization will be one of the biggest…
Whether tis nobler to acknowledge and accept change or remain in a state of denial. I am sure William Shakespeare would have no interest in this discussion and my apologies for the distortion of his work!
A White Paper from Media Links
Huge quantities of ink and pixels have been spent extolling the virtues of an all-IP infrastructure for a modern media production facility such as a broadcast studio or and IPTV head-end. Today, Media Links is one of the only companies in the world that…
Many productions rely on multiple cameras, sometimes from different manufacturers. This creates a color-space problem in production. Lattice can help resolve those issues by color matching the images.
RF modulation is the ink of broadcasting. Broadcasters understand RF and get government licenses to transmit on assigned frequencies. They depend on the government and local frequency coordinators for interference-free privacy. The latest, most popular emerging RF systems are unlicensed and operate in extremely high frequency (EHF) public Wi-Fi bands.…
Broadcasters are confident that they will hold on to the sub 700 MHz UHF band for digital terrestrial services in all regions of the world after the first week of the ITU 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15). This comes after a rearguard action by broadcasters spearheaded in Europe by the EBU (European…
Today’s smartphone owners carry more powerful video technology in their pockets than the best state-of-the-art TV broadcast or production facilities could provide two decades ago at any price. The second decade of this century is when off-the-shelf computing matures to the point that it can facilitate and manage nearly a…
Engineers face new challenges in measuring 12G-SDI signals, which require different techniques compared to those used with SD-SDI, HD-SDI and 3G-SDI signals. Here we will touch on the importance of signal shape, the impact of jitter and the complexities of the different interface formats.
Video over HDMI has proven for more than a decade it has a place in professional and broadcast TV infrastructures and its use continues to grow. Will HDMI replace the SDI interface?
The choice between systems for ATSC 3.0 audio is now down to MPEG-H versus Dolby AC-4 and there is about equal support for each system. It’s now mired in politics within the committee, though a decision is due by the end of 2015.
