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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]