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 [...]
PILOT at CES 2019
PILOT was in attendance at CES this year to checkout the latest tech trends and innovations presenting new opportunities to our industry, including 8K screens, e-sports, AI and radio innovations. 8K Televisions Television set manufacturers showed up big at CES, literally, with large, 8K displays, featuring screen resolutions of 7680 by 4320 pixels, four times [...]
What comes after 5, 6 and 11? Re-inventing local TV news
Andrew Heyward is the senior researcher for TV news at the Knight-Cronkite News Lab at Arizona State University. Andrew began his career in local news at WNEW-TV and WCBS-TV in New York, and served as president of CBS News for nearly a decade. He is currently a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Labs Laboratory [...]
WKAR’s ATSC 3 Test Station Taps the Potential of Next Gen TV
Prabu David is Dean of College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and oversees the PBS station WKAR, which was recently granted an experimental license to broadcast in ATSC 3. In this guest blog post, Prabu explains the exciting work they are doing to tap the potential of the Next Generation [...]