HEVC: Raising All Resolution Boats?

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets Today's Top Stories - 02.25.15 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop." ~ Marcel Marceau On this Day: In 1928, Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. became the first holder of a TV broadcast license from the Federal Radio Commission. HEVC: Raising All Resolution Boats? From SD to UHD, the HEVC is predicted to change the media viewing landscape in 2015. After being formally adopted as a video compression standard in 2014 and showcased as the UHD enabler at the Consumer Electronics Show, the use of HEVC in both software and hardware could possibly make the biggest impact of any new TV technology in coming months. A Most Unusual Transmitter Plant ~ by James E. O'Neal Ever since Marconi began playing with radio at his family villa, there have been many variations on a theme when it came to transmitting antennas. Very early antenna design was rather simplistic: "Get as much wire up as high in the air as possible and tune for maximum spark or current." Audio Innovations From 2015 CES, NAMM ~ by Jay Yeary Audio products at this year's CES were really more iteration than innovation, though there were some surprises… LG introduced their Music Flow system made up of a Wi-Fi sound bar and three Wi-Fi remote speakers while Samsung added new egg-shaped WAM7500 and WAM 6500 speakers to the Shape multiroom range they introduced last year. TV Technology's 'Guide to Closed Captioning' TV Technology takes a look at several important deadlines as well as new solutions to ensure compliance with FCC rules and enhance closed captioning services. News & Technology REVIEW: Scorpion Portable LED Light Kit PEOPLE: Ergen to Resume Role as Dish Network President PEOPLE: Steve Case to Receive CEA Digital Patriot Award INTRO: Osprey Launches New Video Capture Cards eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup Filmmakers, Learn How the FAA Plans to Regulate Drone Filmmaking (Filmmaker Magazine) Norway: Conditions Right to End FM Broadcasts (Radio World) The Last Free Russian TV Station (The Daily Beast) Mark Cuban vs. the World (re/code) Cord Cutters on Net Neutrality: 'It Would be the End of Wild Wild West of the Internet' (The Guardian) TV Technology White Papers "High Speed Bridge to Cloud Storage" is a new ebook from Signiant that introduces Signiant Flight (previously known as SkyDrop), a SaaS solution for accelerated transfer of content to and from cloud storage. "The HTTP-Live-Streaming Success Guide" from Encoding.com examines HLS adaptive bitrate technology, HLS encoding parameters and a comparison of HLS platforms. "Delivering Online Video to the Broadcast Quality Generation" from Limelight Networks explores the broadcast-quality generation and how their expectations impact the way you need to deliver video. "Today's Reality for Moving Large Content Files" from Signiant examines the major trends driving the need for large and fast file transfer, ad hoc delivery methods and the benefits of SaaS. "To Simplify Video Delivery, Integrate the Workflow" from Limelight Networks addressed how to instantaneously deliver high-quality video worldwide to every screen. "Gaining Competitive Advantage from Switching and Extension," from ThinkLogical addresses changes in the post-production ecosphere and outlines best practices for the design of a future-proof, fiber-optic KVM signal management infrastructure.   ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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