Is OTT TV’s Death Knell? By Philip Hunter, Broadcast Bridge Television pundits have been claiming the death knell for television has been ringing for years. Yet, new research from Vimeo indicates that the future of video is already here and that OTT (over-the-top) streaming video is how video content is now shared, viewed by…
How to assess people in online communications beyond the clothes they wear in their writing You are interviewing candidates for a position. They turn up five minutes late, their hair is dishevelled, shirt stained. Rightly or wrongly, your immediate instinct is that this is not the candidate for you. But through the course of…
IABM: “Significant M&A Activity” Still to Come March 26th 2018 – 03:00 PM By Adrian Pennington, Broadcast Bridge The traditional broadcast equipment industry is in a state of flux, with continual consolidation on the media customer side impacting M&A on the vendor side. The IABM recently reported a slight increase in sales but a worrying…
How AI Can Stop Cybercrime Most security breaches are caused by human error. Luckily, there’s an algorithm for that. The past few years have exposed a staggering amount of personal and financial consumer information while damaging the reputations of major brands. The economic losses are significant. The average cost of a corporate breach was…
By Ned Soseman, The Broadcast Bridge A broadcast IP probe alarm can be a chief engineer’s best friend. A probe can notify a chief engineer, master control or transmitter engineer of issues, ranging from small changes to catastrophic events, perhaps even before viewers notice. The goal is to monitor and respond to atypical states…
Mind the gap You may have heard of the Dunning-Kruger curve. If you haven’t, then you’ve perhaps heard Donald Rumsfeld’s somewhat mystifying attempt to express a similar sentiment: There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know…
UK Universities to debut 5G robot football player at Mobile World Congress Such technology will allow experts, such as surgeons and musicians, to share in real-time their physical expertise with a global audience IANS | London Last Updated at February 27, 2018 08:35 IST Photo: Shutterstock The University of Bristol announced on Monday that it…
UHD Post-Part 2 The Signal By Jay Ankeney The Broadcast Bridge With ATSC 3.0 poised to change the broadcast industry’s basic signal, we need to understand this signal is poised between HD and true 4K. The way the UHD (Ultra High Definition) evolution has rolled out, its specification is so broad there is…
This is amazing indeed. You might enjoy watching figure skating even more now… Every single movement is stored separately and then complex routines are created by re-wiring circuits in the brain. Which are, in long terms, the benefits of re-wiring the brain?
Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and today’s broadcast formats are heavily dependent on the decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In this article we look at video lines, why we still need them, and how they relate to video frames. A television image is made up of video frames,…