HEVC Demystified: A Primer on the H.265 Video Codec August 21^st 2014 - 03:26 PM

The most recent non-proprietary video compression standard, High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), also known as H.265, was placed into final draft for ratification in January 2013 and is expected to become the video standard of choice for the next decade. As with each generation of video compression technology before it, HEVC promises…

Mobile Television Could Not Exist Without Content Delivery Networks August 18^th 2014 - 04:10 PM

The popular concept of television anytime, anywhere and on any device may be Internet driven, but it could not exist without Content Delivery Networks (CDN) — the speedy enablers that work quietly behind the scenes connecting video programs to end users.

ISDB-T a broadcast format designed to grow August 13^th 2014 - 06:43 PM

While not the most wide-spread DTV standard, ISDB-T still offers many advantages.

Channel-in-a-Box Technology is Driven By Fast Growth of New Television Channels August 13^th 2014 - 10:06 AM

Viewers and broacasters all want more channels.

Hard Questions About Hardware August 11^th 2014 - 05:14 PM

Pay TV companies and Telcos are trying to tackle three big questions (1) How to stay relevant (2) How to respond to OTT Services and (3) How to reduce the OPEX and CAPEX costs of STB’s and other hardware. In this paper we examine the choices for virtual services, software, dongles, STB’s a…

LTE Broadcast gains momentum despite negative report from EBU August 11^th 2014 - 08:25 AM

LTE Broadcast is the mobile industry’s latest attempt to develop a viable technology for multicast transmission over cellular backhaul infrastructures and on through the Radio Access Network (RAN), after a litany of previous failures such as DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting- Handheld) and in the US Qualcomm’s MediaFlo.

The importance of QC in multichannel August 3^rd 2014 - 08:41 PM

Multichannel has become the norm. Now you need an automated QC solution. Multichannel distribution of live broadcasts offers local programmers the ability to reach a wider consumer base. The TV Everywhere movement has created a consumer climate in which people want the ability to watch any program at any time.…

Routing Live Uncompressed Production Video on IP Networks July 30^th 2014 - 09:17 AM

Since the dawn of television, studios around the globe have relied on coaxial cables to connect the broadcast world: cameras to recorders to mixers to routers to encoders. But studio coax may be on the brink of extinction. Like their colleagues in headends and uplinks, video engineers are swapping 75-ohm…

Understanding Compression Technology. Part 1. July 28^th 2014 - 06:55 PM

Over the decades from our industry’s move from analog to digital based technology, codecs (encoders and decoders) have played a key role in the capture, editing, and distribution of video media. The MPEG-2 codec has supported all three tasks. Camera oriented codecs have moved from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 (H.264). D…

OTT live is the next frontier for content security July 21^st 2014 - 11:41 AM

Forensic watermarking the key to combating OTT stream piracy