With 6K acquisition becoming more common, you may be considering getting ahead of the editing curve by upgrading your computer system. Likely you’ll want a hot system based upon one of the new AMD or Intel 6- or 8-core microprocessors. As the saying goes, be careful what you wish.
In the first part of this four-part series we described the basic principles of the Precision Time Protocol. In part two, we investigate PTP redundancy, specifically for media networks.
The 5G Media Action Group launched at IBC 2019 to promote broadcast over future 5G cellular networks has just held its first General Assembly at the Geneva headquarters of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union).
Move over, video. When it comes to the medium of choice for powerful storytelling, audio wins hands down. That’s why — in its golden age — radio was called the theatre of the imagination.
Following the settlement this summer of a bitter court fight between Fujifilm and Sony over patents relating to the next generation of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) magnetic tape data storage technology, global shipments of LTO-8 media are now reaching end users. It’s a huge relief for large media organizations looking t…
The emergence of high dynamic range (HDR) acquisition in live and studio production has brought numerous possibilities for improved picture quality and creating an immersive experience for viewers. But it has also added cost and complexity to production workflows that broadcasters and content distributors are not eager to pay.
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…
