All Technical Papers articles – Page 16
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Technical PapersDirecting attention in 360-degree video
360° video is a special case of virtual reality (VR) in which the audience views a sphere (or near-sphere) of video centred on a single position.
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Technical PapersDreamspace: A platform and tools for collaborative virtual production
The film and TV industry is seeking ways of producing audio-visual media that combines the real world, CGI and 3D animation in ever increasing quality but at lower cost.
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Technical PapersEfficient multi-bitrate HEVC encoding for adaptive streaming
Over-The-Top (OTT) content streaming is poised to grow exponentially in the coming years, driven by the consumer’s need for a rich and high quality viewing experience.
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Technical PapersBecoming a data-driven broadcaster and delivering a unified and personalised broadcast user experience
With the new distribution opportunities offered by hybrid technologies and standards (HbbTV [1] and RadioDNS [2]), broadcasters’ new challenge is to provide the right content on the right device at the right time to the right people.
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Technical PapersBT Sport Ultra HD - Europe's first ultra high definition television sports channel
BT launched its IPTV service in 2006 offering a combination of On-Demand video and Digital Terrestrial Television. In 2012 BT TV added multicast delivered channels to the service providing High Definition (HD) Linear TV, over a Fibre-To-The-Cabinet (FTTC) access network, to BT Broadband customers.
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Technical PapersOpening of the Holy Door by Pope Francis
The Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV) is the TV broadcasting centre of the Secretariat of Communication of the Holy See and its main goal is to contribute to spreading the universal message of the Pope through the production, distribution and archiving of TV material covering the activities of the Pope and ...
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Technical PapersReal world live 4K Ultra HD broadcasting with High Dynamic Range
The first public demonstrations of the live production and delivery to home of 3840 x 2160 images were held in the early 2010s. These early trials prioritised the broadcast of higher resolution images over increased dynamic range or wider colour gamut. They were the result of advances in technology throughout ...
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Technical PapersLens metadata: A key link to the production chain and how to capture it
The value of metadata is now completely accepted for archiving and in many areas of production, particularly news, where it is crucial to enabling people to search, find and manage content quickly and easily.
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Technical PapersCelebrating the launch of 8K/4K UHDTV satellite broadcasting and progress on full-featured 8K UHDTV in Japan
NHK has been engaged in the development and standardisation of the 8K “Super Hi- Vision” (SHV) system since 1995. Super Hi-Vision is a state-of-the-art television (TV) broadcasting system that provides ultra-realistic viewing experiences to viewers, creating the sensation that they are in the actual scene.
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Technical PapersUHD for broadcast and the DVB Ultra HD-1 Phase 2 standard
The primary focus of this paper is to describe the different video options that will be used for broadcast or unicast over HTTP.
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Technical PapersA social experience for online TV
You can’t stay relevant as a broadcaster with a one-to-many communication strategy. It’s a two-way street now. More and more content is being consumed on other screens than the television, and often outside of the live broadcasting schedule.
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Technical PapersHow true, synchronized live OTT can change the second screen and social TV game
CDNs and OTT video distribution platforms today use technologies such as HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and MPEG-DASH, which use segmentation of the video streams and HTTP for delivery.
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Technical PapersUsing metadata to maximise yield and expand inventory in TV – contextual advertising
In the space of the content (video) consumption on an OTT platform (using IPTV, mobile, tablet), showing contextual ads is a currently a function of global attributes only. From the content perspective, typically parameters like the content type, title, genre, language etc. are considered. While from a user profiling standpoint, ...
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Technical PapersMetadata enriching technology as the key to effective target audience engagement and content monetization
The economy and its way to market its goods and services have been changing over the last decades. With the social transformation and the trend towards a pleasure and leisure oriented society, economic variations and new orientations have been established.
