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May 16, 2013

Article

Aitken receives 2013 ATSC Lechner award

Mark Aitken, VP Advanced Technology for the Sinclair Broadcast Group, was honored last week at the ATSC Annual Meeting with the Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor Award....More
May 1, 2013

News

Netflix certifies Tektronix Cerify

New “Netflix Delivery Standards” testing helps streamline the digital supply chain....More
May 1, 2013

Article

Broadcast Engineering

UK terrestrial battles mobile

WORLD EDITION EXCLUSIVE: I have just attended the Digital Television Group (DTG) annual summit in London. The group is an industry organization for the UK’s television sector. Members include broadcasters, platform and network operators, broadcast equipment manufacturers, and CE manufacturers, as well as special interest groups. The DTG is known for the D-Book technical specifications covering terrestrial broadcasting in the UK....More
Apr. 19, 2013

Article

M-EAS implementation team focuses on workflow 1

Jay Adrick, chairman of ATSC’s team implementing M-EAS, says the new challenge is standardizing interfaces and building workflows that let stations pull content from their various information resources that can feed vital information to the public in emergencies....More
Apr. 18, 2013

Article

Kutzner: ATSC 3.0 won’t keep broadcasters from advancing 3

Jim Kutzner, the chair of the ATSC technical group working on next-generation digital television broadcasting, says ATSC 3.0 will have the flexibility and extensibility to absorb and leverage new, more efficient encoding technology as it comes along....More
Apr. 16, 2013

Article

AXF achieves major standardization milestone

SMPTE 2034 AXF Working Group has submitted its AXF Draft Specification for final review and balloting on its way to standardization....More
Apr. 4, 2013

Article

AMWA Releases ‘MXF for Production’ Specification

The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) has released Application Specification, AS-10, “MXF for Production”. This specification, built on the Sony XDCAM HD Format (SMPTE RDD-9), allows an end-to-end workflow to use a single file. ...More
Apr. 2, 2013

Article

AMWA releases 'MXF for Production - AS-10'

The specification supports end-to-end production workflows from acquisition to archive....More
Apr. 1, 2013

Article

Broadcast Engineering

World standard? Try compatible, first … 1

This behemoth, or benefit, consists of two new ATSC standards called 2.0 and 3.0. These new standards will be applied in serial fashion, one after the other, perhaps years apart....More
Apr. 1, 2013

Article

Broadcast Engineering

Loudness management: Inconsistent audio leads to unhappy viewers.

WORLD EDITION EXCLUSIVE: Quality assurance is critical in order to be successful in a competitive broadcast market. One instance of poor-quality audio or video during an on-air broadcast can result in increased viewer complaints or viewers switching to another channel — and fewer viewers means less advertising revenue. Over the past several years, inconsistent loudness levels between advertisements and programming, in particular, have become a major source of contention for broadcast viewers, prompting regulatory bodies around the world to pass standards and legislation designed to mitigate audio loudness issues....More

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