By So Vang|October 22, 2020|Blog|
Given that the Next Gen TV platform provides broadcasters with so many new capabilities, we can anticipate that some of the more advanced broadcast services will be more complex than what is being deployed during [...]
By So Vang|September 15, 2020|Blog|
Given that over-the-air broadcasting continues to be the most efficient way for delivering a piece of content to many receivers (Figure 1), a potential “killer app” for broadcasters is datacasting. There are many types of [...]
Next Gen TV (or ATSC 3) was designed to be flexible, extensible and future-proof with a plethora of new capabilities, including 4K, HDR and immersive audio. But what is exciting to me is the middleware [...]
By So Vang|March 24, 2020|Blog|
We are in a world where people want their content anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Implementing such a strategy requires that we address the latency issue that plagues over the top (OTT) streaming services [...]
By So Vang|February 19, 2020|Blog|
At CES 2020, voice-assistant technology continued to proliferate, fueled significantly by the growth of the internet of things (IoT), but with television also being an important part of this expansion. Among the major players, voice [...]
By So Vang|November 29, 2018|Blog, Television|
News-Press & Gazette (NPG), a privately held media company that owns or operates sixty-four broadcast services and seven newspapers across the Midwest and western U.S., has jumped on the ATSC 3.0 bandwagon by launching a [...]
On June 1, at 3 p.m. E.D.T, NAB will host a webcast designed to demonstrate the kinds of services and applications that broadcasters can develop using the new ATSC 3.0 standard. In this blog post, [...]
By So Vang|December 7, 2015|Blog, Television|
Broadcast’s Reality May Be Virtual The promise of Virtual Reality has long been the stuff of science fiction. Early VR systems, such as Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, had consumers dreaming of a Star Trek like [...]
By So Vang|October 20, 2015|Blog, Television|
Broadcast TV and Second Screen Apps According to Nielsen, 47% of global respondents say they engage with social media while watching TV programming and 58% say they browse the Internet. A recent Accenture study [...]
By So Vang|September 8, 2015|Blog, Television|
New Video Compression Scheme Challenges HEVC In the past few years, the ISO/MPEG High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC, also known as MPEG-H Part 2 or ITU-R H.265) has established itself as the de facto next-generation [...]
