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.
As in the past, this year’s annual gathering of the Video Services Forum will host an all-industry interoperability demonstration of the latest technologies for transporting video and audio over IP networks. This highly anticipated event will take place during VidTrans 2020 which will be held at the Marina del Rey M…
I often shoot video of bands in front of live audiences. It never ceases to amaze me how many performers ignore the rules of good microphone technique. They literally “eat the mic,” creating not only terrible sound quality but making it impossible to get decent images without the mic blocking the…
Development of new technology and moving to the newly available 5GHz spectrum continue to expand the creative and technical possibilities for audio across live performance and broadcast productions.
IBM Research has made a discovery that could help eliminate the need for heavy metals in battery production. This would aid environmental protection and eventually transform the long-term sustainability of portable energy production.
