TOPICS

Live IP Software Toolkit (LIST)

The Live IP Software Toolkit (LIST) enables basic measurements in IP-based live video production facilities.

Production Infrastructures

The digital transformation requires a new level of flexibility in the ways content is produced. IT infrastructure and IP network is the enabler to support tomorrow's virtual and distibuted production facilities. 

Augmented Reality

The EBU studies and analyses emerging immersive video systems, including Augmented Reality (AR).

Personalization

Personalizing the Audience user experience involves complex distributed systems and require a high level of tuning in order to best engage the audience. To remain competitive, broadcasters need to find ways to personaize their content.

MediaRoad

The MediaRoad project aims to foster collaboration between researchers, content creators, broadcasters and entrepreneurs in order to encourage and enable innovation in the media sector. 

Camera Tests

Information on how to test and classify professional cameras, including test reports.

Virtual Reality

The EBU Virtual Reality (VR) User Group is sharing experience and gathering requirements for VR standardisation activities.

HDR

The EBU helps its Members use High Dynamic Range (HDR) to provide stunning images. This forms part of the work performed in the EBU Strategic Programme on Video Systems.

Media Cloud and Microservice Architecture

The Media Cloud and Microservice Architecture (MCMA) provides code and best practices for the integration of processes in production workflows, incl. Artificial Intelligence in the cloud.

Media Information Management & Artificial Intelligence

It is crucial for broadcasters to be able to efficiently manage, extract, index and retrieve information through the value chain, using well established conceptual and process models. The original MIM project has now a larger scope with an extended focus on Artificial Intelligence. 

Artificial-Intelligence and Metadata Extraction

Metadata is now more than ever indispensable for all production and distribution processes. Artificial intelligence is behind the tools used to generate such metadata cheaper.. 

TV-Anytime User Group

An association of organizations which seeked to develop specifications for programme guides (broadcast, online, etc.)

EBU Flow Multi-CDN

Content providers are facing increasing costs to deliver their live and on demand video/audio content to their customers over IP. 

Digital Terrestrial Television

Although public broadcasters are available on pay-TV platforms such as satellite, cable and IPTV, Terrestrial Television (Analogue and DTT) remains the backbone to free-to-air TV access and the most widely used means of receiving television globally.

Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility

The EMC environment is changing as devices infringe more and more on the radio spectrum. Recent interferers include LED lighting and PLC devices and we continue to influence standards bodies to improve standards to protect broadcast services.

Spectrum

The amount of usable spectrum is limited. Broadcasters need to ensure that adequate radio spectrum is allocated to them and that it is carefully managed and efficiently used.

New Buildings Initiative

The New Buildings Initiative is the forum for EBU Members to exchange ideas, insights, learnings and best-practice related to the design and planning of future-proof broadcast facilities.

Video Systems

Provides strategic and technical advice on all aspects of video images, including quality assessment, access services and workflows. Topics include HDTV, UHDTV, HDR, HFR, AR, VR, MR, MXF, IMF and EBU-TT.

Audio Systems

The next generation of audio experiences will be more immersive, personal and accessible than ever before. It is important that broadcasters look at new file formats to deliver and produce audio in these advanced systems.

Make it Digital Initiative

Make it Digital is an ambitious initiative to inspire audiences of all ages to build the skills they need to be successful in the fast-changing digital world. The EBU is partnering with the BBC to expand the concept to other countries.

Sharing & Planning Terrestrial Services

Various mitigation techniques to limit interference into existing broadcasting networks have been proposed and the effect of these needs to be considered by broadcasters.

Programme making and special events

The demand for wireless microphones and cordless cameras to produce sport competitions, cultural events and news has significantly increased. It is important for broadcasters to keep up-to-date.

Radio

Digital radio technologies and Hybrid radio services are a key part to ensuring that great radio content reaches audiences wherever and whenever they wish to consume it.

Implementing Open Innovation

Innovation is a crucial stepping-stone for making the transition to a fully digital media organization relevant to all audiences. The IOI programme, jointly run by T&I and the EBU Academy, examines how innovation is initiated, developed and transferred. 

Future Distribution

The way we consume media is changing. It is important for broadcasters to understand these changes and respond with adequate future leverage strategies.

Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM)

The Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) brings together manufacturers, broadcasters and industry organizations in an open, participatory environment to drive interoperabilitiy.

Subtitling

The EBU helps broadcasters produce and distribute high-quality subtitles for multi-platform consumption by standardizing subtitling formats for live and prepared subtitles.

Interoperable Master Format (IMF)

The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a standard that allows a single collection of content to be transformed into multiple versions, while sharing the same material.

Quality Control

Manual Quality Control alone is not adequate anymore and does not scale. Broadcasters need to look into automated file-based quality control systems to cope with large amounts of content and digital files.

Media Cybersecurity Forum

With the increasing security threats on the media companies, there is a need to create a place where all stakeholders of the media chain can come together and exchange on security matters.

Loudness (PLOUD)

The switch from audio peak-normalization to loudness normalization is one of the biggest revolution in professional audio. It is important for broadcasters to be aware of the loudness paradigm.

Sustainable Technology in Broadcasting

Research shows that televisions and associated devices are responsible for about two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. This percentage is expected to grow in coming years.

RadioHack Community

Each year, we host a RadioHack event alongside the EBU Digital Radio Summit in February. During this event we take time to learn from one another, share best practice and develop tools to share. 

Over the Top Services

Net Neutrality

It is important for public service broadcasters to continue to support and advocate for net neutrality to ensure their services are equally accessible by all on the internet.

Multicast

In the past, broadcasters faced a number of challenges when using multicast. However, with the development of source specific multicast and automatic multicast tunnelling, it is becoming easier.

Mobile Technologies and Standards

Mobile networks are becoming increasingly important for the distribution of audiovisual media services. Mobile networks will need to be able to accommodate the current and future needs of public service media.

Metadata Models

Metadata is becoming increasingly important to broadcasters. It is essential for the media industry to continue to develop specifications and promote innovation, such as semantic technologies.

Metadata Developer Network

The Metadata Developer Network is set up to organize workshops to discuss new trends and latest research or applied developments with metadata experts from all horizons.

Media Cyber Security

Bringing more IT technology into the broadcasting domain has created new opportunities for media production and distribution, but it has also opened broadcast companies to new security threats.

DASH Test Engine for Encoding

Delivering online available video to a large range of user devices continues to be a challenge for content providers. DASH can help.

Cross-platform Authentication

Hybrid media devices that can deliver audio, video and interactive content over both broadcast and broadband offer an exciting opportunity for broadcasters.

Content Delivery Networks

Delivering live and on demand video services of good quality is quite the challenge for Public Service Media.

CTN-Mobile

Mobile broadband is becoming a significant delivery platform for broadcasters. It is important for broadcasters to do more to study different mobile delivery options.

Broadcast Technology Futures Group

The Broadcast Technology Futures Group is an alliance of non-industrial research and development laboratories that include broadcast futures in their activities.

Broadcast Internet Services

Today, broadcasters need to be able to manage “back-end” infrastructures and so-called “front-end” software interfaces that allow audiences to access and interact with content on different devices/platforms.