Broadcasters are far more upbeat about the impact 5G mobile networks will have on their services than they were in the case of 4G when that was introduced around a decade ago.
For anyone who’s seen the first series to bear the title, the name Penny Dreadful will conjure up images of occult happenings in a shadowy, late-Victorian world. After twenty-seven episodes across three highly successful seasons, Showtime aired the last episode of Penny Dreadful in June 2016. By November 2018, the network h…
The ATSC 3.0 digital terrestrial standard has passed a major milestone with the first US deployment of a multi-station service exploiting the full scope of the new technology.
Top TV engineering technologists update the current status of ATSC 3.0. The cloud is the unifier.
Late last year, the Federal Communications Commission announced plans to establish a 5G Fund, making $9 billion available to help mobile network operators (MNOs) deploy 4G and 5G mobile wireless services in hard-to-reach rural America. Some call these areas with sparse populations and/or rugged terrain the last 5 percent of the…
The cancelled Las Vegas 2020 NAB Show delayed the US launch of commercial Nextgen TV, but broadcasters don’t let technical problems ruin an exciting show. They kept the NAB Show going with a come-as-you-are, delicious and nutritious, Las Vegas-style, virtual broadcast technology buffet, and made it look like that was…
Twenty years ago, there was a clear divide between how you shot and finished a project for Cinema compared to the typical workflows used in broadcast TV. With the advent of streaming services that provide 4K/UHD to a broad audience the lines are now blurred between these two worlds.
Most film and TV jobs start with some simple questions, as Gregory Irwin puts it. “What is it, where is it, when is it.” In April 2018 Irwin found himself asking those questions of cinematographer Lawrence Sher, with whom he’d collaborated on five previous films beginning with John Hamburg’s I Love …
The first burst error correcting code was the Fire Code, which was once widely used on hard disk drives. Here we look at how it works and how it was used.
Video encoding is running up against a complexity barrier that is raising costs and reducing scope for further improvements in quality.
