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The CEA Board of Industry Leaders voted in mid-October to designate displays with more than 8 million pixels as “Ultra HD.”...More

WORLD EDITION EXCLUSIVE: I have just attended the inaugural event for a new SMPTE section. The United Kingdom finally has its own section after a wait of 80 years!...More

The EBU seized the opportunity of a global summit in Seoul, South Korea, last week to call for unity among the world’s broadcasters to defend their precious terrestrial spectrum against continued assault from Telcos for mobile services....More

  Metaglue has added support for the emerging AMWA AS-11 and DPP standards. The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) was set up by major UK broadcasters to help producers and broadcasters maximise the potential of digital production....More

Ronald Reagan once said, “... government does nothing as well, or as economically, as the private sector in the economy.” Yet, it appears we are about to witness the next example of overreach and mismanagement by government bureaucrats — all under the pretext of solving the so-called spectrum crisis. In this instance, government’s solution comes from a blue-ribbon committee’s proposed new way to manage spectrum....More

There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a rapid evolution of codec design. Traditional codecs, some might call them legacy codecs, are gaining evolutionary improvements. These codecs include HDCAM, AVC-Intra 50 and 100 as well as AVCHD 1.0. This article will, after a brief overview of AVC-Intra and ProRes 422 as well as the new sensors that drive codec evolution, focus on AVC-Ultra. There are five flavors of ProRes 422 in comparison to uncompressed video. (See Table 1.)...More

Moving forward, Pai said, it would make sense for some services to be provided through broadcast and others via broadband....More

James F. Goodmon, president and CEO of WRAL-TV parent company Capitol Broadcasting, urged FCC chairman Julius Genachowski and the agency’s four other commissioners to take up M-EAS as an issue of national importance....More

FIMS is a vendor neutral common framework that enables a best-of-breed technical architecture to serve business needs....More

Harris Broadcast Communications leads BXF into its next phase....More