Tech Review suppl.
Harmonized Standards for the Exchange of Programme Material
31 Aug 1998
The European Broadcasting Union and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) jointly formed th Task Force for Harmonized Standards for the Exchange of Programme Material as Bitstreams. This report provides the Analyses and Results of the Task Force.
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Tech Review 08-Q2
EBU Technical Review - edition 2008 Q2
30 Jun 2008
This edition of the Technical Review includes articles on: DRM field trials, digital radio receivers, Super Hi-Vision, Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and tag-based informational retrieval for educational videos. The articles in this publication are also available separately in our library.
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Tech Review 224 a
Modulation and channel coding for broadcasting to mobile receivers
31 Aug 1987
This article explains the benefits of using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) to overcome the adverse effects of severe multipath propagation, such as occurs in mobile reception. The feasibility of implementing such a system for the domestic market is briefly discussed.
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Tech Review 2008 a
DTT roll-out of in France - SD, HD and mobile TV services
31 Mar 2008
A brief description of the DTT situation in France and of its soon-to-come evolution: HDTV and mobile TV launches. In the longer term, terrestrial broadcasting networks will develop further, as a result of a national scheme to re-allocate the frequencies freed up by the digital switchover process.
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Tech Review 2008 b
ANTS — a complete system for automatic news programme annotation
31 Mar 2008
This article describes an integrated system for the automatic annotation of television news programmes named ANTS (Automatic Newscast Transcription System). The system’s performance has been evaluated in a real-life scenario by a panel of professional users inside RAI.
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Tech Review 2008 c
Microphone systems for Surround Sound pickup — and their use
31 Mar 2008
This article briefly describes some of the microphones developed specifically for Surround Sound pickup. It offers some personal advice on system suitability. The author also describes two major outside (surround) broadcasts.
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Tech Review 2008 d
Streaming audio contributions over IP — a new EBU standard
31 Mar 2008
The open Internet is increasingly being used also for various types of radio contribution, especially over longer distances. The EBU has created a standard for interoperability, which has quickly been implemented by the manufacturers.
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Tech Review 2008 e
The transition process in relation to Wi95revCo07
31 Mar 2008
The first T-DAB planning meeting was held in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1995. The allotment plan has since been revised several times. The version called “Wiesbaden 1995 Special Arrangement, as revised in Constanta 2007” (Wi95revCo07) is discussed in this article.
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Tech Review 08-Q1
EBU Technical Review - edition 2008 Q1
31 Mar 2008
This edition of the Technical Review includes articles on: DTT in France, automatic news annotation, surround mics, audio over IP and the T-DAB frequency planning process. The articles are also available separately.
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Tech Review 2008 f
DRM field trials — for urban coverage planning in Spain
30 Jun 2008
This article sums up the results obtained from Spanish experimental DRM tests. Firstly, an introductory section describes the transmission and reception infrastructures. Subsequently, the test results are summarized.
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Tech Review 2008 g
Digital Radio — a receiver manufacturer’s viewpoint
30 Jun 2008
In this article, PURE Digital – the most successful DAB receiver manufacturer over the past five or six years – provides an upbeat analysis of what the future holds for DAB-based digital radio. The article concludes with a section on the latest silicon developments for digital radio.
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Tech Review 2008 h
Super Hi-Vision — research on a future ultra-HDTV system
30 Jun 2008
This article briefly describes the current status of R&D on the “Super Hi-Vision” television system in Japan. The conceptual ideas behind the research project are also described and the collaboration between various EBU Members and NHK is mentioned.
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Tech Review 2008 i
SVC — a highly-scalable version of H.264/AVC
30 Jun 2008
SVC is an amendment to the ISO/ITU H.264/AVC standard. This article describes in terms of applications and performance, the potential of Scalable Video Coding (SVC). A brief overview of SVC functionalities and practical use cases, are given. Different performance evaluations are included.
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Tech Review 2008 j
Tag-based informational retrieval for educational videos
30 Jun 2008
This article reports on a study that explores the contribution of social tags, professional metadata and automatically generated metadata to the retrieval process.The results show that social tags yield an effective retrieval process, whereas automatically-generated metadata do not.
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Tech Review 312 a
HDMI & HDCP — the manufacturers' perspective
31 Oct 2007
HDTV signals offer great opportunities to broadcasters, but there is also the negative side – a high risk of piracy. In order to protect prime content against illegitimate use, content-protection mechanisms can be used.
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Tech Review 312 b
HDCP — the FTA broadcasters' perspective
31 Oct 2007
This article provides technical information on the HDCP system, which is used to protect the HDMI link from a set-top box to a display device. The article also outlines the views of several European broadcasters on methods for controlling content protection.
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Tech Review 312 c
HDCP — the FTA broadcasters' perspective
31 Oct 2007
This article discusses various technologies for streaming video over the Internet, and the problems they solve. It then presents and explains Multiple Description Coding – which offers a very good solution – and how it has been implemented and tested at STMicroelectronics.
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Tech Review 312 d
Network structures — the internet, IPTV and QoS
31 Oct 2007
This article introduces a view of a generic Service Provider IP distribution system including DVB’s IP standard; a comparison of Internet and managed Service Provider IP video distribution; how a broadcaster can inject TV programming into the Internet and how to control the Quality of Experience.
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Tech Review 291 e
CT-aacPlus - a state-of-the-art audio coding system
31 Jul 2002
This article describes the principles of traditional audio coders. The second part describes the basic idea of SBR technology and demonstrates the improvements achieved through the combination of SBR technology with traditional audio coders such as AAC and MP3.
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Tech Review 303 a
Introducing Octoshape — a new technology for large-scale streaming
31 Jul 2005
Live streaming over the Internet was born with two problems: scale and cost. The challenge is to transmit a signal to many users simultaneously and to do so without the transmission cost rising in proportion to the audience size. In this article, we will walk through various technologies for this.
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