All articles by David Davies – Page 9
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Industry TrendsProduction lighting: Prioritising power efficiency, colour accuracy and versatility
From the need to complement more streamlined productions to increasing emphasis on sustainability and control integration, the expectations of TV and film production lighting are increasingly extensive, writes David Davies.
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Motorsport eseries raising funds for COVID-19 relief
MAVTV Canada has partnered with Nextologies Limited to provide complex live remote production and transmission services for the Ricmotech Road to Indy which is helping to raise funds for the Covid-19 relief efforts.
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Conversion engine now handles UHD in the cloud
InSync Technology has revealed that it is augmenting its FrameFormer Link software standards conversion engine with support for motion compensated frame rate conversion of live video streams.
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Magewell introduces flexible decoding for 4K IP streams
The latest hardware decoder from Magewell is able to support both Newtek’s NDI technology for media transport and the Secured Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol – which was developed and open-sourced by Haivision – for H.264 and H.265 streams over IP.
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Video compression experts launch online workshops
Elecard launches online workshops designed to share the knowledge of its video experts.
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Industry Trends
Giving a voice to TV
The trend is towards support for both built-in and third-party voice assistants as manufacturers work to accommodate more flexible living patterns, writes David Davies
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Audio capture: Incremental changes rather than quantum leaps
Audio capture for live event coverage has not changed profoundly in recent years, but increasing levels of immersive production are leading to more ambitious microphone deployments, writes David Davies.
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The Internet of Things: A progress report
Does the IoT herald a ‘slow revolution’ for content creation and other professional applications, or is 5G the catalyst for accelerated activity? Security remains an abiding concern, writes David Davies.
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Right content, right place, right time
Automation is certain to play an ever-greater role as broadcasters work to service more platforms with more content than ever before, writes David Davies.
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Live graphics: Delivering differentiation
Ensuring that broadcast graphics remain effective and consistent is no small feat in the era of OTT services and Augmented Reality, writes David Davies.
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Immersive audio: Bringing the noise
With 2020 promising to be a landmark year for Next Generation Audio (NGA), broadcasters are seeking solutions that can remain responsive to the still-evolving expectations surrounding immersive audio production, writes David Davies.
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Access services: More automation coming online to meet demands of OTT
As regulators move to raise expectations of access services in the era of streaming, broadcasters look set to benefit from continuing advances in automation, writes David Davies.
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The higher-resolution revolution will be televised
A flurry of 8K TV launches at CES confirmed that resolution continues to exert a profound effect on new product development. But with rotating sets and several other notable concept TVs, it’s hardly the only manifestation of the sector’s current creativity.
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Upgrading the user experience as OTT competition intensifies
Delivering more personalised viewing experiences and reducing content discovery times are among the challenges currently being addressed by UI/UX developers, writes David Davies.
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Broadcast Solutions event reflects on remote production and ST 2110
At Broadcast Solutions’ latest Innovation Day, the German company and its partners focussed on IP production, remote production, and the move to the cloud. David Davies was in attendance.
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Live music broadcasting: the new frontier for next gen audio?
Live production with NGA has been dominated by sports. But could live music be the next opportunity for immersive sound? David Davies investigates.
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New World Symphony: Orchestral academy gets ready for 4K HDR
The world-renowned Miami classical music institution is approaching the completion of an ambitious multi-year upgrade, writes David Davies.
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Cinema tech: Could improved images & sound bolster fluctuating audiences?
Declining cinema attendance in Europe means that a greater focus on higher-resolution images and immersive technologies is inevitable, writes David Davies.
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4K UHD: choice and complexity concerns still shaping global adoption
Multiple HDR formats and concerns about production complexity mean that UHD is still some way off from becoming a default choice, writes David Davies.
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The internet of things: The start of a slow revolution
Broadcasters and other content creators will have much more consumer data to draw on as a result of the internet of things. But how to negotiate the new security challenges and avoid the danger of ‘digital fatigue’?
