The 84th meeting of the DVB Steering Board (SB) has approved the latest specification for Ultra High Definition Television, UHD-1 Phase 2. The industry consortium says the new specification is a major milestone for the industry, guaranteeing interoperability and enabling broadcasters and CE manufacturers to provide UHD-1 Phase 2 products and services. This could mean […]
Plans in the US for a third-generation broadcasting standard, ATSC 3.0, is not only taking shape but has some broadcasters urging early adoption in order to create an “unprecedented” viewer experience and the “greatest thing since the introduction of colour”. The comments were made at last week’s NAB-sponsored TV2020 conference in New York, and during […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has announced that from October 1st 2017, UK broadcasters BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky and UKTV, will no longer accept delivery on videotape of any programmes commissioned after this date. The announcement represents the end of the use of videotape in UK programme making, and the […]
High Dynamic Range (HDR), will help raise the viewing experience to new levels of engagement, according to a new report, High Dynamic Range TV: Content and Technology Implications, from Strategy Analytics. HDR also highlights the importance of ‘artistic intent’. HDR allows movie and TV producers to create video content which better reflects reality and can […]
Premium content services provider Vubiquity has become a member of the Digital Production Partnership (DPP), the professional media industry’s business change network representing members from the entire digital supply chain. The DPP provides media organisations with a forum to work together to define standards and help bring about a fully digital, global, Internet-enabled TV supply […]
Cloud Force Digital Media, enabling content providers to expand their distribution globally on Video Service Providers’ interactive platforms, announced it has joined the Reference Design Kit (RDK) community and also announced a partnership with TO THE NEW. Cloud Force has licensed the RDK technology to build, distribute and monetise Internet applications for operators, global programmers, […]
More efficient encoding (HEVC) introduced to products to help pave the way for future UHD (Ultra High Definition) services is one of the key elements of the DTG’s D-Book 9, the industry-determined, next-generation, universally-deployed specification which supports future interactive services and enables the transition towards HbbTV. Open, democratic and supportive of public policy, the D-Book […]
In what has been described as “a defining moment” for the future of television in the US, a local TV station in Cleveland is ushering in the era of Next Gen TV broadcasting with the first live ATSC 3.0 broadcast of a major professional sporting event – Major League Baseball’s World Series. Using the newly-standardised […]
Extensis and The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), a global standards body of media, have announced the release of a new standard for video metadata that streamlines workflows and defines video metadata fields. The new standard is supported in Extensis’s digital asset management solution, Extensis Portfolio 2016. Michael Steidl, IPTC managing director, noted: “For many […]
The DTG hosted the inaugural meeting of the Implementation Group for Future PMSE Audio last month. Attended by DTG Members including BBC, Ofcom, Sky and Sony the meeting reflected a broad range of opinion and Mark Waddell, Lead R&D Engineer at the BBC was unanimously elected as Chair of the Group. Programme Making and Special […]