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The Future of Broadcast Technology
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Spotlight on
Sebastian Richter, Vice President Media Systems at Rohde &
Schwarz. We are currently in the middle of a transition phase with migration to several new technologies, from the move to IP-based infrastructure and the shift from linear to video-on-demand (VOD).
The question for all of us is how long that transition phase will last; it is going to be faster for some customers then for others – national broadcasters, for example – it will be a slower process.
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| Tags: broadcast
| 5g
| 5g broadcast
| rohde and schwarz
| Sebastian Richter
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The Future of Broadcast Technology
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Now that OTT and VOD have become more mainstream, many
commentators talk about traditional broadcast methods, like terrestrial
transmission, being a thing of the past. With so many new platforms and
non-traditional content services carving out a growing slice of the market, you
can be forgiven for thinking that linear over-the-air television is on its way
out. The reality is that the industry must strike a balance between meeting
consumers’ shifting habits and the business and operational needs of content
providers. |
| Tags: Rohde Schwarz
| 5g broadcast
| Manfred Reitmeier
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Why Routing Control
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Routing control sits at the very heart of all advanced control systems. A well-configured system that manages signal routes throughout a facility and groups multi-level actions into a single control surface allows for much richer and focused production. Using one-touch panels, operators could route video, audio and data signals between the various elements of a network, perhaps to route a camera signal to a vision mixer, as well as through other processors, before it arrives at its destination. Users could adopt routing control to trigger an external event, a complete reconfiguration of a multi-router setup, route several sources simultaneously, or make set routes or multiple routes via a single button press. |
| Tags: iss142
| es broadcast
| tsl products
| remote production
| tallyman
| Mark Davies
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Smashing the WTA Tour
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The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) is the global leader in women’s professional sport with more than 2500 players representing nearly 100 nations competing for a record $146 million in prize money. The 2018 WTA competitive season includes 54 events and four Grand Slams in 30 countries. In 2017, the WTA was watched around the world by a total TV audience of 500 million – with host broadcast services provided by NEP UK. |
| Tags: iss133
| tennis
| wta
| nep
| outside broadcast
| ob
| Danny Ridler
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Are you female and going to IBC
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Trade shows within this industry can be hard enough to survive for anyone, let alone as a woman when women make up less than 10% of the general populace. There are undoubtedly some benefits to being the minority (as there are with many things); I've never had to queue for the toilets for a start. However, feedback we have collated from our FBI database on the female experience at trade shows suggests there is still some way to go for gender equality and having an equivalent presence as a woman on the show floor.
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| Tags: iss116
| females in broadcast
| fbi
| ibc show
| Sadie Groom
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FBI Interview
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This issue we chat with Ann Charles, a freelance Broadcast Technology and radio production consultant.
Give us your elevator pitch. Who are you and what do you do?
Hello, I'm Ann Charles and I'm a Radio Production and Technology Consultant. I help individuals and companies get the most out of their station's technology so they can make the best programmes in the world. |
| Tags: iss115
| fbi
| femaies in broadcast
| sudan
| Ann Charles
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On the road with AMG
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Established in 1994, AMG Television Productions started out as a video production company filming small club rallies on a local basis. The first TV contract came in 1995 when they were commissioned to film the Safety Devices Hillrally for a program on Sky Sports. The following year they filmed the complete Hillrally championship along with several rally championships. |
| Tags: iss115
| rally
| outside broadcast
| edius
| Andy Glossop
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Females In The Broadcasting Industry
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Everyone has heard of the FBI right? The US Federal Bureau of Investigation that inspires images of hard talking detectives in dark suits and sunglasses. But if you work in Broadcast, there's another FBI you should know about. This FBI, as the name spells out, is an organisation specifically geared towards Females in the Broadcast Industry; although it too can appreciate a sharp suit and sunglasses combo! |
| Tags: iss112
| FBI
| Broadcasting
| Samantha Arlow
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The Power Of IP
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There is little doubt that the adoption of IP technology across the broadcast workflow can bring significant benefit to broadcasters. IP is ubiquitous, it's based on common standards and broadcast can benefit further from the wealth of expertise and technology that exist in other industries. While we are still moving toward complete adoption- from ingest, processing and storage, to media management and distribution- there are areas where IP has been making its mark for some time, providing the industry with a powerful proof point for its wider adoption. |
| Tags: iss112
| IP
| Power of IP
| Broadcast
| Jamie Shepperd
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Making remote production over IP a reality
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Live sports broadcasting is one of the most technically challenging tasks for any production team. Multiple signals in multiple formats need to be transmitted around the sports facility. In addition, signals need to be integrated with feeds from other locations to create a complete broadcast stream. As a result, remote production over IP has recently become a much discussed topic! The possibility of simplifying networks by consolidating all media traffic onto a common platform, and taking advantage of the increasing availability of video devices that natively support IP could solve many challenges. However, recent advances which bring together both broadcast and telcos technology means we are now seeing the transportation of established broadcast signals over IP across established internal and external networks become a reality. |
| Tags: iss107
| remote production
| ip
| 3dhdi/sdi
| networks
| broadcast
| John Smith
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Authoring and Monitoring for the emerging 3D immersive Broadcast Audio formats
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The world of broadcast audio is on the verge of a major revolution. Numerous 3D Immersive formats are under development and will find their way into the mainstream of broadcast production and distribution in the near future. Unlike the world of relatively constrained channel based coding as we are accustomed to (most commonly Left / Right for Stereo and Left / Centre / Right / Surround Left / Surround Right + LFE or Low Frequency Effects for surround), these new codecs will support more channels and/or object based audio coding. For the end consumer, there will be two major benefits from this new approach, a greater sense of involvement or immersion, and a degree of personalisation. |
| Tags: iss107
| broadcast audio
| 3d immersive formats
| facilities
| equipment
| authoring
| monitoring
| Anthony Wilkins
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Budgeting and controlling costs
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This is a very important aspect of running a production, and one you have to keep a close eye on. Its very simple; you have your actual hard costs in one budget and you have what youre charging the client in another. Lets say you charge the client £450 per day for the camera package, but the rental house is only charging you £350. Having those figures in separate budgets allows you to calculate your overall gross margin for the project. |
| Tags: iss106
| costs
| industry
| business
| budget
| money
| finance
| advice
| tips
| broadcast
| Den Lennie
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An alternative power solution
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Chuck Walior, Aldis Systems VP & Chief Engineer, attends NAB each year in search of creative, forward-looking solutions to wrap around and support the custom systems he designs for each integration project. He wasnt really looking for an alternative power source when he was introduced to Video Ghost at NAB 2015, but he was quickly won over and has yet to exhaust the list of situations where the little game-changer could save his customers money and time, plus provide an element of safety, consistency and significantly increase flexibility. |
| Tags: iss106
| power solution
| video ghost
| remote
| device
| bhv broadcast
| KitPlus
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No broadcast without flawless communication
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Reliable and fail-safe communications for the broadcast of live events are more important than ever. On site, broadcasters only have one chance to grab the perfect image for the viewer with time being a crucial factor. The larger the event, the more viewers it reaches and the higher the risk that something could go wrong. As a consequence, reliable, non-blocking, high-performance communication between all participants is essential. In broadcasting, nothing can happen unless everyone can talk and communicate with each other, explains Nico Lewis, Senior Sales Manager RTS Intercoms. That is why high profile live events such as Wimbledon, the Winter Games or the Superbowl rely on RTS intercom systems to provide communication in their broadcasting OB trucks. |
| Tags: iss105
| rts
| communication
| broadcast
| live events
| intercoms
| KitPlus
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Wireless and satellite
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Each day, clips and other promotional materials needed to be transferred from the shooting location in South Africa to Network Tens editors in Sydney, Australia. However, the shows distant and isolated filming location in the South African jungle posed some major challenges for the broadcaster. Editors were required to deliver large video files intercontinentally over poor network conditions and with a lack of infrastructure that was not conducive to file transfer. |
| Tags: iss105
| wireless
| satellite
| filming
| shooting
| broadcaster
| file transfer
| John Wastcoat
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Three days to launch a TV station
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We go on-air in less than 100 hours is an alarming statement when the studio and control room in question contain no technical equipment whatsoever. But this was the situation that we faced upon arrival at the new Local TV channel in Manchester for the first time as we began to unload the van late on a Thursday afternoon at the end of May, we knew that the station had to go live on Sunday evening, just three days later. And not only did the new channel plan to launch with a live studio show, but it would also have to remain on-air with its own transmission output continuously after that. We have worked on projects with quick turnarounds before, but the speed and scale of this one were quite breath-taking. |
| Tags: iss104
| aq broadcast
| that is manchester
| tv studio
| local tv channel
| transmission
| Neil Hutchins#
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The business case for media asset management
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You could argue that, so far, there have been two stages of commercial justification for asset management systems in broadcasting. First, it was a necessary evil: if broadcasters, production companies and other media organizations wanted to store content as filesat least some of the timethey needed a means of finding it again.
Once broadcasters had a comprehensive index to all of their content, and could find clips and programs again quickly, there existed the potential to earn new revenues from them, ushering in the second stage. Video and audio recordings are among the principal business assets of broadcasters and production companies, and making the best use of those assets, by re-using them whenever possible, is simply good commercial sense. |
| Tags: iss103
| media asset management
| systems
| broadcast
| video
| audio
| recording
| Kevin Usher
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Tapeless Workflows, MAM and Archive: Back to Basics
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The broadcast industrys appetite for file-based workflows existed long before the technology required to implement them was available. With the emergence of cheap capture hardware, the continually decreasing cost of storage and the ever-increasing capabilities of inexpensive computing power, the transition from tape-based to tapeless workflows has finally become a reality. The primary impetus for this shift comes from a long proven economic motivator: its cheaper. |
| Tags: iss103
| tapeless
| workflow
| mam
| archive
| broadcast
| technology
| Michael Shore
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How HEVC technology is revolutionizing field-based broadcasting
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High-Efficiency Video Encoding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is the subsequent generation of H.264 and tapped to be the next widely adopted standard for video compression. As with any MPEG evolution, the new standards goal is to make compression more efficient and allow for reducing OPEX and CAPEX in various video delivery applications. With the introduction of the last major compression innovation, H.264, video applications experienced roughly half the data rates of the predecessor MPEG-2. With HEVC, the industry is predicting a similar ambitious result: achieving half the data rates of H.264. In only its first generation of development, HEVC is already providing data efficiencies of up to 40-percent while retaining the same image quality. As the codec continues to evolve and the broadcast market approaches more widespread adoption of 4K resolutions, there will be a strong push to achieve the 50-percent efficiency mark. |
| Tags: iss103
| hevc
| h.265
| broadcasting
| offsite
| broadcasting
| technology
| field based
| Eli Garten
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The IP revolution in television is only the beginning
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The fundamental change brought about by the delivery of video content via IP is perhaps the most significant development in the history of televised entertainment because it allows the viewer for the first time to shape the viewing experience. Time, in the sense of the linear delivery of channels, is dissolved, and possibly the concept of channels themselves will also dissolve. Viewers can store, cache and play back video when they want, and experience it at various grades of quality. In a sense the viewer can also be the curator of the service at the point of delivery. |
| Tags: iss103
| bridge technlogies
| ip televsion
| broadcast
| 4k
| production
| Simen Frostad
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The IP Solution - intercom systems without extensive new cabling
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When a broadcasting or TV station wants to install a new intercom system in its broadcast centre or headquarters - or wishes to replace its entire intercom system - it is faced with two big investments. One concerns the capital investment in terms of hardware and software. This will include investment in equipment such as the intercom matrix, keypanels and accessories. The second concerns the installation and the commissioning itself, as a new system requires new cabling due to different standards and system topology. |
| Tags: iss101
| ip
| intercom systems
| cabling
| broadcasting
| tv station
| Manuel Brico
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Ride on time
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The highly competitive sport of track cycling emerged in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century as a way to continue the sport year round, and velodromes soon became a common sight on the Continent. Whether indoors or out, track cycling is one of the world's most intriguing spectator sports and, as such, new ways of bringing its drama to multi-platform viewers are constantly being sought. |
| Tags: iss100
| videosys
| camera systems
| cycling
| broadcast
| minicams
| Alistair Horne
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Training for media - who should do it?
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Simple enough to ask, but any possible answer to the question of who should train those working in the media industries, or more specifically the moving image industries, is complex and involves many interrelated factors. I would like to explore the issues, and maybe present some suggestions on how we might do a better job of preparing and engaging particularly the new entrants into our workforce in training and CPD (Continuous Professional Development). |
| Tags: iss099
| ittp
| training
| industry
| tv
| film
| students
| skills
| broadcast
| Martin Uren
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The changing face of film and TV
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With the convergence of technologies and blurring of lines between broadcast and other forms of media, the industry has undergone a seismic shift over recent years. In 2015 half of all UK ad spend will be spent on digital, in what has been described as a "seminal moment in the history of the ad industry". Client budgets are being spread across multiple platforms, and expectations and quantity of content are dramatically increasing. How does the industry supply this demand whilst successfully adapting to the changes? |
| Tags: iss099
| movidiam
| broadcast
| technologies
| creative network
| George Olver
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