The future of DTH satellite TV services is bleak in leading developed markets, especially North America, but much more positive in some major emerging countries, notably India.
Public internet-based remote TV production adds new critical monitoring points to avoid digital cliffs.
Broadcasters such as the BBC and CNN were among major casualties of the recent global internet outage involving Californian CDN provider Fastly, which will lead to re-evaluation of measures to reduce impact of such disruptions in future.
There was a time when the mere mention of bringing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning into the media industry brought visions of robots replacing humans. Today that is certainly not the case—although we might be getting close: I saw a robotic camera operator move the cameras for a n…
UK audience measurement agency BARB (Broadcasters Audience Research Board) is about to launch regular data on SVoD (Subscription VoD) viewing, as well as video-sharing platforms.
We move on to looking at developments in noise cancelling technology and the role it can play in achieving clarity and comfort within headsets for intercom use.
The term “paperless office” goes back at least to 1978. The parallel term “filmless movie” is actually far older, dating perhaps from a 1930 article by the Hungarian inventor Dénes Mihály in the West Australian, published in Perth on 9 April 1930. Given how long it took us to actually achieve a filmless …
The recent news that NTV has become the first Russian TV channel to experiment with 5G broadcast, one of many such transmission tests that have been conducted over the past 18 months, illustrates that broadcasters see a bright future in the next-generation cellular data delivery system.
In the beginning, there was television. And whenever people tried to make television programmes effective video signal monitoring was an essential pre-requisite.
In real systems the issue of sampling rate conversion arises frequently but fortunately there are plenty of solutions.
