Many people and cultures celebrate special New Year dates. Organizations designate fiscal years. Broadcasters traditionally mark their new technology year mid-April, at annual NAB Shows. Old habits die hard.
There are many types of codecs, all used for specific purposes to reduce file sizes and make them easier to distribute down a limited bandwidth pipe. Lossy compression and Lossless compression are the two most common categories of data compression used to reduce the size of data without significant loss…
In part 2 of this investigation, we look at why Apple’s new M1 processor benefits broadcasters.
The TV industry, including pay TV operators, rights holders and new streaming providers, could recoup $28.3 billion a year from pirates by luring consumers back to legitimate video services.
Read too much film and TV industry technical literature, and it’s easy to get the impression that everything about the technology is built to carefully considered specifications. As Philo Farnsworth’s wife was probably aware, though, as he tinkered with the electronics while she sat in as a test sub…
The subjects of timing, synchronizing and broadcasting are inseparable and in this new series John Watkinson will look at the fundamentals of timing, areas in which fundamental progress was made, how we got where we are and where we might be going.
There aren’t many positions in the film industry which have the prerequisite of spending an hour sunken in the waters off San Diego in a classic diving suit with a blacked-out helmet. To be fair, it wasn’t so much the film industry that made Pete Romano do that; it …
As company mergers, acquisitions and extensive rights management agreements have become part of the new media landscape, it has created large multi-national conglomerates that span the globe. This in turn has revealed the need for IT networking technology and complex software orchestration that tie all of the disparate locations together…
Contextual TV advertising is emerging as a big winner from the demise of cookies for tracking user behaviour in the wake of privacy concerns and legislation such as the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) implemented in May 2018.
Digital technology is changing how and where some mission-critical TV RF engineering work can be performed.
