NAB Show Recap: BEITC Open, DFX, Best Paper Award
It's been a busy day at NAB Show. We officially opened the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference, presented the Best Paper Award and explored the latest technology innovation in the Digital Futures Exchange. Digital Futures Exchange The Digital Futures Exchange began this morning with a presentation from Amazon's Jon Jones as he discussed Amazon's [...]
NAB Show Recap: BEITC ENGAGE!, SBE Ennes, NABEF TAP and TIG
The first sessions of NAB Show got underway today with BEITC ENGAGE, and the SBE Ennes Workshop. Sam Matheny and John Clark also spoke to the next generation of media technologists at the TAP and TIG programs. BEITC ENGAGE! Brendan Cline the Director of Engineering at BeckTV presents his paper "Building the Right Broadcast [...]
Using Drone Photogrammetry for News
Steve Johnson is the founder of SeeBoundless, a company that innovates news gathering practices, rewrites university courses to include immersive storytelling, and finds new ways for audiences to learn about the world around them. Steve wrote the following paper "Using Drone Photogrammetry for News" for his DFX Engage! session at NAB Show 2019. Register for the Show [...]
PILOT ATSC 3.0 Interactive Content Interop – Santa Barbara, CA
On February 19-21, 2019 PILOT conducted an ATSC 3.0 interoperability test (interop), which focused on implementation of the most recent version of the ATSC 3.0 Interactive Content standard (ATSC A/344:2017). The interop was hosted by News-Press & Gazette (NPG) at KEYT-TV, which currently has an ATSC 3.0 station on the air in Santa Barbara, CA. [...]
Exploring the Breadth of Hybrid Radio at the Digital Radio Symposium
Excitement surrounding Digital Radio and Hybrid Radio opportunities is global. From February 11 through 14, David Layer, vice president of advanced technology with NAB, and I participated in EBU’s Digital Radio Week in Geneva. While different regions are approaching opportunities for digital and hybrid radio in different ways, there are common threads that bind the [...]
NHK Launched World’s First 8K Broadcasting in Japan
In this guest blog post, Hirokazu Kamoda from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) writes about the launch of 8K broadcasting in Japan. NHK has showcased its R&D work in developing 8K broadcasting at Futures Park, Powered by PILOT at NAB Show for the past several years. Major TV networks in Japan launched ultra-high definition television broadcasting [...]