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Control, as easy as pressing a button
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A fundamental issue with control surfaces in modern broadcast operations is that they are, for the most part, old fashioned.
The ease, responsiveness, and functionality of touchscreens, especially in Smartphones are now commonplace. Attributes that are largely absent from touchscreens are typically buttons, sliders, and dials found on many control devices associated with human machine interaction.
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| densitron
| monitor
| tactile
| Bazile Peter
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What content providers need to know about OTT
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As OTT (Over-The-Top) technology has gotten more mature and established robust standards over the years, the concept of OTT monitoring is gaining popularity. With customer expectations soaring, it’s vital for OTT providers to deliver superior quality content. To deliver Quality of Experience (QoE) on par with linear TV broadcast, the entire system, starting from ingest to multi-bitrate encoding to delivery to CDN must be monitored continuously. |
| Tags: iss134
| ott monitoring
| qos
| logging
| compliance
| dash
| atsc
| cloud
| Hiren Hindocha
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A Software Based Approach to Video Monitoring
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Real-time content monitoring is a mission-critical operation for broadcasters, telecom, and satellite operators. Traditionally, service providers have used monitoring systems based on specialized hardware with a dedicated, fixed interface designed to monitor a specific number of video feeds. Yet, bespoke hardware solutions require a substantial amount of manpower, have a higher cost of ownership than software, and are inflexible. |
| Tags: iss123
| monitoring
| virtualization
| interra
| orion
| Anupama Anantharaman - new
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Rethinking standards in the media world
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It's actually a more difficult question than you think. When I ask the majority of engineers this question, I will get a technical answer. It will be something like "to be sure we meet the specification" or "to be sure we don't put bad signals on air" or "so that I don't get fired for getting loudness wrong" |
| Tags: iss119
| qc
| monitoring
| mr mxf
| class
| Bruce Devlin
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Audio
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Audio monitoring has come a long way since its humble beginnings of a box with a speaker, a volume control and an analogue input. Today's high-end audio monitoring units boast an impressive array of I/O such as SDI, MADI, AES-3 and Analogue while offering a large amount of functionality such as accurate metering, loudness measurement, Dolby decoding, metadata analysis and video confidence monitoring. There is however a huge storm brewing in the world of broadcast in the form of video and audio over IP, which will turn everything upside down. |
| Tags: iss113
| Audio
| Audio Monitoring
| SDI
| MADI
| AES-3
| S2022-6
| TR-03
| TR-04
| IP
| AES67
| Dante
| Ravenna
| 3G-SDI
| TSL
| MADI
| PAM-IP
| Pieter Schillebeeckx
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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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A soft shift in Monitoring Solutions
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The technology supporting the media industry is evolving at a furious pace, making system flexibility a critical characteristic of any new equipment or infrastructure investment. Broadcasters and other media companies must adapt quickly if they are to benefit from changing content creation, management, and delivery models, but they can't afford to purchase solutions that meet only immediate requirements, and not necessarily those of the future. |
| Tags: iss102
| monitoring
| software
| solution
| dolby
| infrastructure
| Craig Newbury
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Wibbly Wobbly Waveforms
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The very first analytical electronic instrument, developed in the late 1890s, was the oscilloscope. This used a cathode ray tube (CRT) to paint a graph of voltage on the Y axis versus time on the X axis. Once television became a practical reality in the 1930s, the same instrument was applied to the video output from the camera and became the very useful waveform monitor. |
| Tags: iss070
| cel-soft
| cel-scope3d
| waveform
| monitoring
| vectorscope
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Matrox MC-100 Reviewed
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I have always liked multitools, leatherman, Gerber, Swiss Army. Amazing little all in one tools that can get you out a hole when you need.
Its the same when out setting up a Live webcast, a multi camera event or simply assisting another crew, I always like to have a few useful boxes of tricks with me just in case.
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| Tags: iss064
| matrox mc-100 review
| sdi to hdmo
| converter
| hdmi monitor
| N/A
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Monitoring in the file-based environment
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One of the major challenges facing broadcasters and content producers today is quality control. In the traditional model QC was performed by skilled viewers in real time, watching the content on a good monitor alongside a waveform monitor and audio meters to ensure the technical parameters were optimised. |
| Tags: tmd
| iss059
| transcoding
| monitoring
| qc
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