Get Up to Speed on the 2021 NAB BEIT Conference As the 2022 Conference Revs Up
NAB has issued the Call for Presentations for the 2022 NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (submissions are due by January 14) at the NAB Show (April 23-27 2022), which will be here before you know it so get your proposals in early! But presentations and the Proceedings of the 2021 NAB Broadcast Engineering and [...]
BEIT 2021: Discussing Reception of All-Digital AM Radio in Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles (EVs) are the way of the future but this could spell trouble for AM radio. More than a few EVs have eliminated the AM radio from the infotainment system citing the increased interference created by the electric motors which diminishes the user experience. An example infotainment screen taken from the popular Volkswagen ID.4 [...]
Be Next Gen TV Ready: PILOT Sponsoring Seminars on ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer
In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized U.S. television broadcasters to use ATSC 3.0 transmission standard (or Next Generation TV) on a voluntary basis. Today, 43 markets are broadcasting using Next Gen TV and over 70 receiver models are commercially available. Each month, tens of thousands of consumers are purchasing Next Gen TV-capable TV [...]
Deep Learning to Improve Weather Forecasting
There is a lot of hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and an equal amount of confusion about what AI can really do. From playing chess to creating deep fakes, many of the examples in the popular press can range from cool to silly to scary. But this MIT Technology Review article offers an example of [...]
NABA Issues Recommendation on High Dynamic Range Broadcasts
The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA), a trade association dealing with technical, operational and regulatory issues affecting North American broadcasters, recently announced a Recommendation for broadcasters on the use of High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology. The Recommendation says that systems based on an underlying PQ-based HDR transfer function with optional static and/or dynamic metadata be [...]
Optimism for 2022 NAB Show Because of People, Connections, Community
I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive of NAB Show and understanding of the difficult decision we made to cancel it again this year. There was genuine excitement expressed by so many in our community about getting back together in person. Indeed, I too was excited! Pardon the Vegas pun, but it just wasn’t in the cards. [...]