A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers

Pizzi, Skip; Jones, G.

doi:10.4324/9781315848426

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“…As shown in this table, SD systems almost always use interlaced, bottom-field first (bff) sampling format [26,30,41]. If the source is progressive (e.g., film) it is typically converted to interlaced form by so-called telecine process [1,2]. HD systems also use interlaced formats, but with top-field first (tff) order.…”

Section: Video Formats and Elementary Streamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transitioning Broadcast to Cloud

2021

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We analyze the differences between on-premise broadcast and cloud-based online video delivery workflows and identify technologies needed for bridging the gaps between them. Specifically, we note differences in ingest protocols, media formats, signal-processing chains, codec constraints, metadata, transport formats, delays, and means for implementing operations such as ad-splicing, redundancy and synchronization. To bridge the gaps, we suggest specific improvements in cloud ingest, signal processing, and transcoding stacks. Cloud playout is also identified as critically needed technology for convergence. Finally, based on all such considerations, we offer sketches of several possible hybrid architectures, with different degrees of offloading of processing in cloud, that are likely to emerge in the future.

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Section: Video Formats and Elementary Streamsmentioning

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“…Terrestrial broadcast TV has been historically the first and still broadly used technology for delivery of visual information to the masses. Cable and DHT (direct-to-home) satellite TV technologies came next, as highly successful evolutions and extensions of the broadcast TV model [1,2].…”

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Transitioning Broadcast to Cloud

2021

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Global Patchbay: Developing Popular Music Expertise Through International Collaboration

Thorley

Roux

2017

Popular Music Studies Today

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The practice of music production is by nature, collaborative (Negus 1992, Kealey 1979). Furthermore, the connection which emerging technology now facilitates means that increasing numbers of practitioners collaborate with others around the world (Watson 2014). The way in which they do this is in keeping with Tapscott and Williams' (2006) concept of peer-production. The collaborative and technological skills to do this are now needed to work in Popular Music production. Furthermore, learning through collaboration with others is an established and effective concept (Bruffree 1999, Gaunt et al. 2013). However, it is rarely practiced in Universities due to a variety of organisational and cultural barriers. This paper shares the practice of Global Patchbay, an initiative aimed to bring together Universities and practitioners around the world and to exploit the potential of collaborative learning in music. The project initially involved partners in the UK and the US, and continues with others from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Learners have collaborated on recording projects, mixing projects, acoustic design projects and sound design projects using cutting edge participatory technologies as well as common audio production technologies.

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Energy savings opportunities in the global digital television transition

2016

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Globally, terrestrial television (TV) broadcasting is in the midst of a complete transition to digital signals. The last analog terrestrial broadcast is expected to be switched off in the early 2020s. This transition presents huge energy savings opportunities that have thus far been ignored. Digital TV switchovers have likely increased energy consumption as countries have completed transitions by providing digital TV converters to analog TV users, which increase energy consumption and extend the life of energy-inefficient analog TVs. We find that if analog TVs were retired at the time of a digital switchover and replaced with superefficient flat-panel TVs, such as light-emitting diode (LED) backlit liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, there is a combined electricity savings potential of 32 terawatt hours [TWh] per year in countries that have not yet completed their digital TV transition. In view of these findings as well as the dramatic drops of super-efficient TV prices and the unique early-retirement opportunity resulting from cessation of terrestrial analog broadcasts, TV-exchange programs would easily and substantially advance energy efficiency.

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A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers

Cited by 4 publications

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Transitioning Broadcast to Cloud

Transitioning Broadcast to Cloud

Global Patchbay: Developing Popular Music Expertise Through International Collaboration

Energy savings opportunities in the global digital television transition

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