At WRC-23, the EBU is advocating for preservation of UHF spectrum used in content production and distribution. Walid Sami expressed confidence it would be safeguarded. EBU has been working since Sharm el-Sheikh 2019, with a white paper outlining their views. An booth hosted by them and BNE highlights the need for regulatory stability to innovate.
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EBU urges EMFA to protect journalists and shield public service media from interference, foster collaborations between media platforms, attribute content on user interfaces, and ensure access to audience measurement data.EBU urges EMFA to protect journalists and shield public service media from interference, foster collaborations between media platforms, attribute content on user interfaces, and ensure access to audience measurement data.
Read MoreIreland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has completed a successful proof of concept of DVB-I, a technology that would enable the broadcaster to extend its popular DTT (digital terrestrial television) platform Saorview to all connected devices. The need to ensure they can continue to reach audiences and leverage increased IP-based content distribution were important drivers for the PoC. The PoC used the reference application created for the DVB Project by Sofia Digital and confirmed that DVB-I has many strengths, including being an open technical standard that provides a migration path to a hybrid DTT/IP future. RTÉ is carefully following developments in the trials under way in Germany and Italy with a view to potentially launching its own trial in due course.
Read MoreThe EBU is working with SMPTE and the Open Services Alliance for Media on a cloud-agnostic open source project called MCMA, Media Cloud Microservice Architecture. The MCMA project isn’t a specification, rather it a set of software providing tools to enable a move to microservices.
Read MoreThe France TV live broadcast of the French Open tennis tournament from Roland Garros is seen as a showcase of excellence in sports broadcasting; an event that pushes engineers and manufacturers to innovate in infrastructure and supporting technologies, as well as trialling options for standardisation and pathways to the future. In 2020 the tournament was […]
Read MoreHas UHD been slow to roll out? Not so, we hear in this talk which explains the work to date in standardising, testing and broadcasting in UHD by the BBC and associated organisations such as the EBU. Simon Thompson from… Continue Reading →
Read MoreIf you get given a video signal, would you know what type it was? Life used to be simple, an SD signal would decode in a waveform monitor and you’d see which type it was. Now, with UHD and HDR,… Continue Reading →
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Read MoreA technical deep dive into what exactly constitutes Ultra HD
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Read MoreThe EAR Production Suite, a set of open-source software tools for producing next-generation audio (NGA) content using open standards.
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