The Media Networking Alliance has issued a maintenance revision to AES67-2013, the AES standard for high-performance streaming audio-over-IP interoperability.
With the number of drone-related incidents rising in Europe and the U.S and with the U.S authorities set to tighten regulations by imposing a register for all UAV owners, the professional UAV filmmaking industry is alive to the concerns. Keen to help producers with advice on finding and…
As the size of video files explode in size, it’s too expensive to keep building larger capacity distribution pipes. For that reason, the race to improve video compression technology has taken center stage. The only question today is how efficient can compression get?
While consumers want to pay for only the channels they regularly watch, it is not clear that cutting the cord or unbundling on the part of cable providers will result in reduced monthly bills. This article looks at some effects changing viewer habits may have on the US pay-TV sector…
As you read this, hundreds of volunteers are working to assemble the most powerful and flexible TV transmission system ever envisioned. ATSC 3.0 will specify an entirely new, IP-based next-generation broadcasting system — from transmission through presentation to the viewer or listener and all the necessary items in between.
The amount of video coming down the track for carriage over mobile is threatening to break the net unless encoding vendors and compression standards can keep pace. The lesson from a recent IBC panel is that this can happen - provided the industry pays for it.
The problem with Flash Player is that it is insecure. Mozilla even disabled it for a couple of days in July due to vulnerabilities. The solution is to move to an HTML5-based playout. The transition need not be complex.
Bringing the new UHD television format to market is a herculean project . Not just because multiple companies and products have to be developed, but an entire infrastructure must be designed and put into place. With UHD, that means supporting H.265 and VP9 streaming. Now, Google plans to release VP10, which…
The seemingly inexorable year on year increase in DVR usage has at last been halted in some major countries by a strong swing towards catch up services direct from the pay TV operator as an alternative for accessing time shifted content. This trend is evident in the US, UK and…
Consumers care less about how content is delivered to their device than about the quality of the experience (QoE) on that device. This means engineers need to rethink how test and measurement tools can best be applied.
