A recent pricing announcement by HEVC Advance, one of two groups pooling patents for HEVC compression technology among rights holders, has done little to clarify the situation for device makers. The launch in April 2015 of HEVC Advance surprised many in the industry who are not close followers of the compression…
Online video providers may be gaining subscribers from established pay TV operators but they are not having it all their own way with high churn rates among themselves. This applies to leaders such as Netflix and Amazon as well as smaller OTT players, according to the latest OTT Video Market…
Without standards, the world would be a very difficult place to live in. There are many kinds of standards that affect almost every aspect of live – technology is just one of those areas. We can consider language as a kind of standard that allows people in one part of the w…
The outside broadcast (OB) truck is a microcosm of a studio control room. Placed in any number of settings, from theater productions and sporting events, to one-off concerts and festivals, OB trucks play a crucial role in delivering up to the minute, high quality content.
For all of last year’s talk about distributing 4K television to home viewers, there has been little real progress on making it a reality. The only place 4K technology is being used regularly is in some sports production and in the making of premium television programming.
Video and audio crews operate in all climates; from hot to humid to freezing to desert dry. While the crews go about their production work, many never consider how these conditions may affect their recording media.
Raycom Media has expanded all 33 of its news-producing television stations to the exclusive use of Grass Valley’s Edius Pro editing software. The deal includes all software upgrades for the next two years and contains about 1,500 editing seats at the broadcast group.
Optical storage is popular on many fronts, especially for archival purposes. Even so, sales of the popular storage media are falling as other technologies, including spinning disks and the cloud, become more common.
File-based workflows are ubiquitous in the broadcast world today. The file-based flow has brought enormous efficiencies and made adoption of emerging technologies like Adaptive Bit-Rate (ABR), 4K, UHD, and beyond possible. Multiple delivery formats are now possible because of file-based workflows and its integration with traditional IT infrastructure. However, the…
How collaborative media platforms can help the broadcast industry win the war for talent.
