Video service providers of all types must step up their engagement with subscribers and enrich their personalized recommendation through advanced voice capabilities if they are to meet the challenge of increased content fragmentation.
Successfully deploying 100% SW 100% COTS with uncompressed IP signals.
While SMPTE was creating and ratifying ST2110, the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) announced it was working on a set of Application Program Interface (API) specifications that would enable a wide range of devices (e.g., switchers, audio consoles, and cameras) to be identified, controlled and managed on a SMPTE 2110…
As the broadcasting industry is moving from a traditional SDI infrastructure towards the All-IP Studio providing a common frequency and – equally important – an absolute notion of time for all devices is now provided by the underlying infrastructure itself. In this four part series, Thomas Kernen and Nikolaus Kerö investigate the intr…
Familiarity breeds contempt and to a certain extent that is what has happened among broadcasters when it comes to serial digital interface (SDI) technology. Since SDI was first standardised by the SMPTE in 1989, broadcasters have forgotten the trials and tribulations they went through to get those initial systems working. Over…
What do a John Deere tractor, Bell telephone and Honeywell thermostat have in common? Each is a highly successful, user-friendly product that reflects the artistic touch of Henry Dreyfuss, a legendary industrial designer whose work focused — as he put it — on “fitting machines to people.”
Every audio engineer has had a crisis moment under extreme pressure when system problems arise in a live event or broadcast. How should one react? Logically, just as a pilot would when flying a plane in a life or death situation.
Quantum computing is the biggest mathematical and computational breakthrough in the history of the known world.
Having looked at magnetic and optical storage media, John Watkinson turns to electronic memory with the emphasis on flash.
Now that virtually anyone can afford a very high quality video camera, the democratization of video production is in full play. With that comes shortcuts adapted by newcomers that make the video quality dreadful, but become acceptable through frequent use. In a way, it is a dumbing down of video…
