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Learn more about the UHD HDR test material EBU member RTS created at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2017. Selected sequences will be shared with EBU members.
The Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) brings together manufacturers, broadcasters and industry organizations in an open, participatory environment to drive interoperabilitiy.
Having a bigger TV screen means having better and more immersive audio to satisfy your audience. It is important for broadcasters to look into these new formats and systems and their impact.
The Broadcast Wave Format was first specified by EBU in 1997. Since then, it has been updated several times and will continue to evolve to meet the requirements of contemporary audio production.
Audio subjective testing should be an integral part of all sound and TV programme-making operations. It is important for broadcasters to take this into consideration.
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.
The EBU Virtual Reality (VR) User Group is sharing experience and gathering requirements for VR standardisation activities.
Content providers are facing increasing costs to deliver their live and on demand video/audio content to their customers over IP.
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.
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.
The way we consume media is changing. It is important for broadcasters to understand these changes and respond with adequate future leverage strategies.
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.
The EBU helps broadcasters produce and distribute high-quality subtitles for multi-platform consumption by standardizing subtitling formats for live and prepared subtitles.
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.
Metadata is indispensable for content archives, programme production, distribution and any system designed to electronically search and retrieve the assets you need and want.
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.
The amount of usable spectrum is limited. It is important for broadcasters and regulators to work together to ensure that radio spectrum is carefully managed and used efficiently.
Various mitigation techniques to limit interference into existing broadcasting networks have been proposed and the effect of these needs to be considered by broadcasters.
The main areas of interest of group are: time frequency slicing, cellular networks and frequency re-use, the use of the 700 MHz band and coding evolution/impact on data capacity requirements.
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.
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.
An association of organizations which seeked to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer platforms.
The Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS) is a Task Force set up between the EBU and the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA).
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.
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.
Recommendations involve 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The next generation of audio experiences will be more immersive than ever before. It is important that broadcasters look at new file formats to deliver and produce audio in these advanced systems.
Delivering online available video to a large range of user devices continues to be a challenge for content providers. DASH can help.
Hybrid media devices that can deliver audio, video and interactive content over both broadcast and broadband offer an exciting opportunity for broadcasters.
Delivering live and on demand video services of good quality is quite the challenge for Public Service Media.
Mobile broadband is becoming a significant delivery platform for broadcasters. It is important for broadcasters to do more to study different mobile delivery options.
The Broadcast Technology Futures Group is an alliance of non-industrial research and development laboratories that include broadcast futures in their activities.
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.
Every two years, the EBU develops a roadmap for technology and innovation activities based on the requirements and inputs given by EBU Members.
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