television (TV) technology

Manor Marketing, a full-service PR, marketing and sales strategy agency, is now in its seventeenth year of business, specialising in outbound communications for clients, some with in-house marketing teams, and some without. In 2016, Manor Marketing was awarded "Best Full-Service Broadcast Marketing Agency -UK" and ...

LEAWOOD, KAN.—Well-known TV Technology author, broadcast engineer and DTV pioneer Charles W. Rhodes, 88, died March 20, following complications from a hip fracture. Rhodes may be best known as serving as chief scientist of the Advanced Television Test Center from 1988 through 1995.

Portland, Oregon – axle ai has announced that Bleacher Report has standardized on axle ai media management solutions and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental video processing solutions to prepare, manage, and deliver media assets across its online and social media properties. As a leader in ...

WASHINGTON—Change seems to be a constant in today's media landscape and a panel at this year's NAB Show will put all of those disruptive forces in the spotlight. “Leading Through Disruption” is a panel that will feature four leading women in media as they take a look at how to strategically position an ...

Unless you've had your head in the sand, you can't help but have heard about HDR (High Dynamic Range) TV. There's been no end of announcements from manufacturers about how they are (or will be) supporting this phenomenal new technology. One thing we know to be constant in our industry is that ...

With a broad background in television technology and station operations with companies like CBS, ABC, PBS and Univision, Amoroso will be working with Pebble's US customers to help solve their complex workflows. Tom Gittins, Pebble Beach Systems' Chief Commercial Officer, commented: “We are ...

WASHINGTON—Mark Aitken, VP of Advanced Technology at Sinclair Broadcast Group, will be honored at the 2018 NAB Show with the NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award. Aitken, who has played an instrumental role in advancing development of the ATSC 3.0 Next-Gen TV standard, will join ...

WASHINGTON—March 5 marks the official launch of the new ATSC 3.0 next-gen broadcast transmission standard, at least in terms of the FCC's authorization of the new voluntary rollout. WRAL-TV Raleigh, N.C., a pioneering station in the delivery of next-generation TV, has already kicked the tires on ATSC ...

It's the latest battle of the acronyms — OLED vs. LED — only this time around, deciphering the differences between the two was once an easier task than it is today. Still, if you're after the best TV for your almighty dollars, you need to know the difference. When OLED TVs first arrived in 2013, they were ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—2018 is poised to be a big year for ATSC 3.0 and you can read about everything that has occurred and what is to come in TV Technology's latest ebook, “2018 Guide to ATSC 3.0.” The celebration of Next Gen TV's official launch at January's CES conference, what WRAL-TV has been ...

HUNT VALLEY, MD.—Sinclair Broadcast Group is among the largest stations groups in the United States with 193 stations in some 100 U.S. markets and is also recognized as a frontrunner in the development and deployment of ATSC 3.0. However, there's been little public awareness of the advanced ...

In November 2017, the FCC voted to allow the voluntary rollout of ATSC 3.0 and as a result the forecast for consumer devices in the U.S. to receive the new signal is by 2019. ['All' LG 4KTVs in South Korea Soon to Feature ATSC 3.0]. For a comprehensive list of TV Technology's ATSC 3.0 coverage, see our ...

LEICESTER, ENGLAND—Easter weekend will see the premiere of CNN's six-part, six-hour miniseries “Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History.” For recreations of different historical eras, cinematographer Dane Lawing, SOC, made the call to go with Cooke S4/i prime lenses to give each era a distinct look.

Blackmagic Design today announced that “Half-Life” and “Maturity,” two new television pilots to air in January on New York City (NYC) Media, were edited and graded using DaVinci Resolve 14. Author: TVTechnology; Publish date: Feb 12, 2018; Social count: 0. Blackmagic Design today announced that “Half-Life” and ...

Now celebrating its 90th year, TV Technology caught up with Benjamin Bross, project manager at the Video Coding & Analytics department with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute to discuss the evolution of HEVC and what's next in video compression. TV Technology: What are the latest developments ...

PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA—The 2018 Winter Olympics are finally here and NBC Olympics has officially unveiled the team that it is bringing to South Korea to provide a gold medal-worthy broadcast to viewers. Harmonic is one of the companies tapped by NBC Olympics and will provide its ...

SOUTH HADLEY, MASS.—South Hadley Community Television provides the town's PEG content on local Comcast cable channels. The studio facilitates the production and broadcasting of programming for local residents, focusing primarily on the coverage of municipal meetings. Because we have an ...

Is OLED really worth paying for? Or are much more affordable LCD and LED TVs just as good? And what about QLED? It may seem that buying a TV has never been more complicated, but these seemingly similar TV technologies are actually very different. Over the past few years, various aspects of TVs ...

A shocking headline occurred this week: AT&T called on Congress to pass net neutrality rules. Wow. This is the first time an MVPD or telco (AT&T is both) has switched sides in the argument and the occurrence reminded me of a recent conversation. At the end of a lunch with a friend, a senior managing ...

WASHINGTON—Change is coming all along the content chain, from production to viewing, and the 2018 NAB Show will look to detail some of those changes with a special, three-act session. Produced by Amazon Web Services, the combined session will feature three presentations that focus on ...

Chernock has successfully led the world's brain trust of television technology through a standardization process in which those with various competing interests had to find compromise without compromising the standard. One ATSC 3.0 member called Chernock's demeanor “perfect for the time of going ...

PONTE VERDA BEACH, FLA.—The PGA Tour has added a new club to its bag for delivering content to its fans, as the organization has announced it is launching a live and video-on-demand OTT service through a partnership with Xumo. The PGA Tour says that this is its first ad-supported OTT channel ...

PALM DESERT, CALIF.—Broadcasters at this week's HPA Tech Retreat discussed two timely television technical topics: the introduction of the ATSC 3.0 DTV transmission standard and the on-going TV spectrum repack initiative. XXX. (L to R) David Siegler, Del Parks, Skip Pizzi and Rich Friedel ...