Russell Trafford-Jones, Author at The Broadcast Knowledge

Video: Sky Tech Summit, Redefining the visual experience – advances in UHD & HDR

Posted on 1st November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

From Sky’s 2018 Tech Summit, we hear from across the industry about the activities the industry is engaged in to improve television and move it into the future.

Chris Johns, from Sky, starts by walking us through the current advances in TV; delivery methods, choice, and advances in video and audio.

Ian Nock from the UltraHD Forum, gives us the low-down on where UHD displays are heading, the inter-op work being spearheaded by the UHD Forum and specifications being agreed to bring technologies like HDR and Dolby Atmos into our homes.

Carys Hughes from Sky, explains her work ensuring that lip sync keeps pace with recent technology and remains at 0ms.

Phil Layton from BBC R&D takes us through the live UHD events the BBC has been doing, showing us how they have been steaming live.

Gill Reston also explains what the DPP has been doing in the industry particularly with IMF.

Watch now!

Speakers

	Chris Johns Chief Engineer, Broadcast Strategy, Sky UK
	Ian Nock Chair of the Ultra HD Forum Interop-WG Founder of Fairmile West
	Carys Hughes Design Engineer (Emerging Technologies) Sky
	Phil Layton Head of Broadcast & Connected Systems, BBC Research & Development
	Jill Reston Senior Project Manager, DPP

Video: IBC Tech Talks – AI in Production

Posted on 31st October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

However it’s applied in our industry, AI is here to stay. In the area of production, it is set to revolutionise working practice, by dispensing with many formulaic and repetitive tasks and making more effective use of human creative skills. Nowhere is this more significant than in live broadcasting where the economic advantages of AI can allow the coverage of events that would not otherwise be cost-effective. In these Tech Talks, three industry experts will describe and demonstrate the latest ideas and technologies in AI-assisted production, including one who will address the storytelling benefits for live football. Another international broadcaster will introduce the concept of smart production, where hardly anything is left to the human – even the script is generated automatically by mining information from sources such as social media.

A thought-provoking glimpse of how AI researchers see the future of production.

Speakers:

	Craig Wright Project Research Engineer BBC
	Joost de Wit Founder & CPO Media Distillery
	Hiroyuki Kaneko Senior manager NHK
	Pam Fisher Executive Director The Media Institute

Webinar: Get Ultra Low with Your Latency

Posted on 30th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: November 8th 2018, 10AM PST / 17:00 GMT
As the first of Wowza’s Low-Latency Streaming webinar series, join Pete McIntosh, Jamie Sherry and Mac Hill who’ll take you through the basics of streaming protocols so learn why latency isn’t always low and what techniques you can use to reduce it. They’ll also tell you how Wowza’s launched their low-latency product.

Register and learn!

Webinar: Mark Schubin’s “Six Centuries of Opera and Media Technology in New York”

Posted on 29th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: 1st November, 2018. 1PM EDT / 10AM PDT / 17:00 GMT

Electronic home entertainment was invented in New York City for opera and so were headphones. The first compatible-color television program seen at home was opera in New York and so was the first bootleg recording. New York’s media technologies for opera date back to the 16th century and in the 21st century include dynamic video warping with depth-plane selection and multi-language live cinema transmissions to all seven continents (first described in a New York newspaper in 1877).

The genesis of much modern tech that we use today in broadcasting – and many business models – had their birth in Opera over a hundred years ago. Find out more!

A 200-ton music synthesizer broadcasting opera music in New York in 1907? An opera lighting dimmer in 1638? Opera for military communications tests?

It may be difficult to believe, but it’s true!

This is a special SMPTE New York-Section National Opera Week webcast event featuring Mark Schubin, esteemed engineer and explainer.

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