BEITC Preview: IP Traffic Across Radio STL
Reliability for E2X and other IP traffic across Radio Studio to Transmitter Link While IP-based studio-to-transmitter links (STLs) have both reduced operational cost and increased connection flexibility, they are prone to packet losses that can degrade the quality. A session at this year’s NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference (BEITC, April 7-12, 2018, Las [...]
5 Things to Know: The Future of Local News
Find out the future of local news in our latest 5 Things to Know, and learn more at the DFX Future of Local News panel at NAB Show 2018, where we'll delve into a recent study by Knight Foundation.
VR and AR: A New Toolkit to Connect
Immersive media expert Caitlin Burns of Caitlin Burns and Associates, explains how Virtual and Augmented Reality provide a new toolkit for broadcasters to tell stories and connect with their audiences. Caitlin is the Vice Chair of the Producers' Guild of America New Media Council. She is an expert in franchise story-world development, multi-platform [...]
PILOT Launches Pitch Prize Competition
Last week PILOT launched the PILOT Pitch Prize 2018 to foster innovation in the broadcast and media industry. Seed level startups focusing on broadcast and media will submit their applications to enter the competition, and five finalists will be chosen to compete in the pitch competition that will be held at NAB Show NY. Each of [...]
The Winter Olympics Come to Next Gen TV Broadcasting
Tablets displaying ATSC 3.0 transmissons via USB dongle receivers from ETRI About a year ago, as we were deep in the weeds of the development of the Next Gen TV standard, ATSC 3.0, we identified the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang as an ideal event to showcase the capabilities of what the standard could [...]
Virtual Reality Project Shows What’s Possible
Charlotte Norsworthy PILOT sponsored the Grady College of Journalism's Mobile News Lab, and provided them with Virtual Reality equipment to experiment with new ways to tell stories. In this guest blog post, Mobile News Lab student Charlotte Norsworthy details her team's VR project on the Tallulah Gorge State Park's hydroelectric [...]