Standards

Aitken receives 2013 ATSC Lechner award

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:28:00 +0000

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.

Netflix certifies Tektronix Cerify

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:41:00 +0000

Ned Soseman

New “Netflix Delivery Standards” testing helps streamline the digital supply chain.

UK terrestrial battles mobile

Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000

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.

M-EAS implementation team focuses on workflow

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:26:00 +0000

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.

Kutzner: ATSC 3.0 won’t keep broadcasters from advancing

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:33:00 +0000

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.

AXF achieves major standardization milestone

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:03:00 +0000

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

AMWA Releases ‘MXF for Production’ Specification

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:01:00 +0000

AS-10 details an interoperable format for end-to-end workflows based on long GOP MPEG-2 coding.

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.

AMWA releases 'MXF for Production - AS-10'

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:21:00 +0000

The specification supports end-to-end production workflows from acquisition to archive.

World standard? Try compatible, first …

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Loudness management: Inconsistent audio leads to unhappy viewers.

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Ralph Bachofen

Increased viewer complaints often leads to fewer viewers, which means less advertising revenue.

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.