Within broadcast there has always been a quest for higher and higher resolution with improvements in wider color fidelity. The quest has always been to deliver what we see to the audience, often this is limited by technology or cost of production, but today there is the possibility to increase…
So many buzzwords & acronyms and so little time! I thought this was a better title than Understanding the Differences Part 2.
While I am not one to wax nostalgic, the last decade was a pretty exciting one in media technology. HD-SDI came into its own in the early aught (00) years, mobile and wireless media, OTT and streaming all became mainstream. IP and file based media production was introduced and standardized (SMPTE…
Open Source is one of the current buzz terms in technology. In the world of software applications and services offering to make the source code of a program freely available is certainly a noble gesture. Interoperable is more of a design specification and philosophy to make sure systems and devices…
Diegetic sound flows from the narrative world of a visual story. It is any sound that exists within the story and can include the voices of characters to the sounds of objects or music coming from a radio. As pro sound equipment becomes more accessible to a wider range of…
987 TV stations have either completed repacking or are in progress. With three tight deadlines looming before the FCC Repack schedule concludes in 5 months, will stations, vendors and crews be able to maintain the pace?
When the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) began its search for a new president this year, after two decades of steady leadership by Mark Richer - who oversaw the country’s transition from analog to digital and then to HDTV - it knew it wanted a technically savvy person who c…
Broadcasters will be able to assess the readiness of the Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) protocol at the VidTrans 2020 conference in Los Angeles late February 2020.
Want to prove your value to your employer? One audience complaint about a simple but crucial content detail that should have been caught by the traffic department or an engineer resulted in a $50,000 fine.
Dante audio networking is now well known in the broadcast industry. It is used by over 2100 products from more than 430 manufacturers, and is used in installations that range from broadcast studios and OB vehicles, to stadiums and recording studios, radio stations to schools and conference rooms.
