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.
To download, please click the title links below.
White papers available
Developing a super slow-motion camera for HD
Slow-motion replays are now widely accepted as an integral part of TV sports coverage. This white paper from Grass Valley shows how to develop a slow-motion camera for HD broadcasting.
Optical-fibre SDI - next generation SDI
You might have heard about optical fibre but considered it too expensive and too complicated to use. This common perception of optical fibre is not necessarily correct, as this white paper from Blackmagic Design reveals.
New revenue opportunities for operators as video moves from satellite to terrestrial networks
This paper from Net Insight explains why video services are migration from satellite to terrestrial networks, and describes how satellite operators and operators of digital terrestrial TV networks will also find new revenue opportunities by deploying multi-service and multi-purpose terrestrial networks.
IPTV the journey to personalised TV
Over the last decade, pay-TV platform operators have adapted their technologies and business models to incorporate digital TV, interactivity, video-on-demand (VoD), personal video recorders (PVR), and more recently, HDTV. Not surprisingly, most of these innovations have been focused on the home TV set – which is where the TV industry has traditionally made its living, as Tandberg TV explains in this white paper.
Everything On-demand
Video-on-Demand (VoD) is one of the foundation stones for the Individual TV Experience – a concept that recognizes the demands of modern consumers to watch content on their own terms, delivered when they want it and where they want it. The paper from Tandberg TV presents a roadmap from movies on-demand to all forms of network time shifting and predicts the long-term migration from local PVR to network PVR.
CMMB Single Frequency Network: Dream becomes reality!
In June 2009, TeamCast and its Chinese partner Digital Horizon successfully passed a number of intensive testing on teamCast's integrated China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) products. This whitepaper, written by Eric Pinson, TeamCast's produce line manager outlines what tests were done and the results.
A closer look at 3D TV
Norway-based T-VIPS believes that once the deployment of 3D TV sets reaches a critical mass, the floodgates of consumer demand will open. Given the long lead times for capital projects and infrastructure investments, now is the time for broadcasters and programmers to start planning. This white paper explains 3D TV’s new capabilities that were not possible before.
Working with pre-compressed audio signals in video processing and encoding equipment
TV production and distribution plants are increasingly tasked to handle, manipulate and transport multi-channel audio packages, which have already been compressed using one of a variety of technologies. This paper from Harris Corporation examines the various sources of impairments and errors in the handling and transport of these pre-compressed audio packages in video synchronisation, processing and encoding situations.
Use of MPLS in LTE defined
The Broadband Forum, through its MPLS in Mobile Backhaul Initiative (MMBI), aims to define reference architectures and technical specifications for mobile backhaul deployments in collaboration with vendors and service providers. The initiative motivates vendors to offer products and services on a commonly agreed framework and enables service providers to offer new services with reduced risk and improved time to market. This paper targets vendors and service providers that are in various stages of planning for mobile backhaul for LTE.
The story behind the story-centric workflow
A new way of working in both technology and workflow terms is not only possible but also profoundly necessary. Dalet calls it story-centric workflow, and this white paper explains why …
Overcoming the challenges of video-over-IP transport
This paper from Net Insight examines the quality of service issues of IP/MPLS transport and describes Net Insight’s unique approach to overcome these challenges. The renowned Nimbra platform has been equipped with a truly channelised IP trunk interface providing exceptional timing and synchronisation characteristics. IP media networks implementing the Nimbra transport solution will deliver guaranteed quality of service together with superior manageability, allowing operators to reclaim control of their end-customer traffic.