Bob Dylan was riding a crest of social change when he wrote those lyrics in 1963. But the words popped back into my mind as I thought about several recent conversations with friends who complain of their struggle to stay afloat in today’s video production business.
The use of photorealistic technology is changing the way broadcasters are looking at virtual sets. Now it is possible to create scenes that are indistinguishable from reality, which provides excellent new possibilities for enhancing storytelling.
The push to create the ideal digital cinematography camera has now been going on for, arguably, two decades. There were a couple of standout attempts in the 1980s involving high definition tube cameras, but the introduction of Sony’s HDCAM tape format in 1998 served more or less as the starting p…
In the fourth and final part of this series, we wrap up with an explanation on how PTP is used to support SMPTE ST 2110 based services, we dive into timing constraints related to using COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) hardware, i.e.: servers.
People have been making pictures for both the big and small screens for almost a century. In an industry with a history that long, it’s no surprise that the perpetual search for something new has long been tempered by a certain respect for tradition. Or, to put it another w…
Every three to five years, government delegations from around the globe gather at the Radiocommunication Assembly (RA) and World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) conducted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) — the United Nations (U.N.) specialized agency for information and communication technologies. Their mission is to review emerging technologies, negotiate use o…
Back in the early 1980s, Hugo Zuccarelli demonstrated Holophonics to crowds waiting in long lines at a trade show in Los Angeles. His headphone-based 360-degree spatial audio system was startling in its detail. When the sound of scissors cut a lock of your hair from behind, it was so realistic…
DVB, the consortium developing open technical specifications for delivery of broadcast services, has formally approved its DVB-I specification for delivery of linear TV over IP networks including the internet.
The recent launch of Apple’s TV Plus service bulked up with original TV shows costing $6 billion to produce has disrupted global attempts to unify streaming behind a common set of protocols for encoding, packaging, storing and playing back video delivered over the internet.
As the amount of data in the world keeps exponentially multiplying, a Holy Grail in research is finding a way to reliably preserve that data for the ages. Researchers are now closing in on methods to make data permanent. The problem is there is no way to be absolutely sure…
