BPS™ Progress Report for Q4 2024
NAB and its collaborators have made progress in three major areas in the last quarter of 2024.
Humber College and NAB Jointly Organized “Protecting GPS with Resilient PNT Solutions” Seminar
On November 17, 2023, Humber College’s Broadcast–Broadband Convergence B²C Lab, in collaboration with NAB, hosted a PNT focused seminar that introduced and demonstrated Broadcast Positioning System (BPS). The event was attended by government and industry representatives from both the U.S. and Canada.
VVC Codec’s Potential in Broadcasting
Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the latest published video codec standard, and it has achieved the highest level of video compression to date. VVC has been drafted by a joint collaborative team of ITU-T and [...]
Enhancing GPS Location Accuracy with ATSC 3.0
ATSC 3.0, the underlying standard for Next Generation TV, could be used to enhance GPS location accuracy, and the enhancement feature could enable a nationwide service. Accuracy of GPS location, when computed solely by the [...]
Experimenting with Conversational AI Bots Using MindMeld
Many conversational artificial intelligence (AI) bots have been successfully deployed, and they are becoming quite common. Nearly everyone today has used or at least heard of Google Assistant, Alexa or Siri, for example. There are [...]
Evolution of ATSC 3.0 Mobile Use Cases
Mobile reception has been discussed since the early days of standardization for ATSC 3.0 or Next Gen TV. Just as there was a wide range of opinions on what functions ATSC 3.0 should include, the [...]
The COVID-19 Era Demonstrates the Need for Next Gen TV Tools
New opportunities often arise from setbacks. As COVID-19 continues to disrupt our existing way of conducting business, new trends and habits in media consumption are taking root. The changes in behavior we are seeing now [...]
Can Broadcasting Benefit from Neon’s Artificial Humans?
Neon, an independent startup backed by Samsung, showed humanlike computer agents at CES 2020. These digital avatars follow commands, make facial expressions, and can converse with a real human in different languages. Neon calls them [...]
EBU Studying 5G Broadcasting Feasibility
The EBU has been active in evaluating 3GPP based wireless solutions for broadcaster use cases. In 2014, EBU published a report, Delivery of Broadcast Content over LTE Networks, on the efficacy of LTE eMBMS technology [...]
Broadcasting in an Era of Connected Intelligence
The next 15 years will be more disruptive than the last 15 years. A myriad of connected devices and sensors will share and process information, and new services and business models taking advantage of the [...]