ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

Looking for more information on broadcast-related technologies? Starting this September, APB will make available some white papers on the various areas of the broadcast-production chain.

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White papers available

Next-generation audio monitors rapidly gaining acceptance

This paper explores the benefits offered by next generaton audio monitors.

Considerations when choosing a media server

A media server is a much more complex system than one might first think. When choosing such a system for a facility, there are a wide number of issues that should be carefully considered. This whitepaper from Grass Valley highlights the key points.

The next step in collaborative workflows

Expectations during the digital archive migration process

This document is the first in a series of white papers aimed at helping the archivist understand the process Front Porch Digital has evolved and patented in migrating videotape and film-based media to digital archive.

Online video publishing (OVP)

Many companies see OVP as a technical exercise, transcoding and delivering files to locations over network delivery systems. While these are important parts of any OVP system, this paper points the way to a broader, more business-oriented view, with greater opportunities to be had, approaches that lead to increased revenue and lower costs — compelling for any content owner.

Managing digital media

Choice is good, but when it comes to video content storage management it is more like information overload. Is video just another large data file and content storage management just another term for data storage? No, that is a purely technical description at the highest level, and ignores the context of how video is created, how it flows in the enterprise, and the subsequent relative value of this content to its owners. This paper highlights these differences and helps explain the need for a fully featured CSM system that leverages the latest technology.

Multi-screen TV vision paper

The nature of TV viewing - and the viewing audience - around the world is changing fast. Historically, consumers were passive, glued to the TV set in the corner of their living rooms at a specific time to engage with linear programme content. Today, viewers are starting to discover that TV can actually be made to follow them, shifting time, place and device to fit their own desires and not those of the broadcaster. This Ericsson “vision paper” explains more about how consumers are warming to the idea of multi-screen services.

Hybrid Intercom Network

Clear-Com Eclipse Digital Matrix Intercom System was used to provide the communications for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The native IP enabled V-Series intercom panels allowed rapid communication deployment where more traditionally connected panels would otherwise have to be planned for and individually cabled. This white paper describes how IP communication overcomes traditional problems at such types of installation venues and also discusses what to consider when deciding Intercom-Over-IP (IoIP) approach for successful and spectacular large events, making reference to specific use-cases of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
 

Content, networks, the consumer

As consumer desire shapes today’s TV into an interactive, multi-screen experience, more content than ever is driving up video traffic and putting increased bandwidth pressures on networks. This white paper from Ericsson illustrates these combined demands of “content, networks, consumer” which present new challenges to operators, not only in the acquisition and processing of high-quality content but also in the roll-out of infrastructure, and the management and efficient delivery of large volumes of video, media and audio across multiple platforms to multiple devices.