The New Builders 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.
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.
With internet-based media offerings becoming more sophisticated and audience expectations rising, data science is becoming a fundamental skill for broadcasters seeking to deliver successful OTT services.
A "stack" of relevant standards such as ST 2110 allow IP-based live production environments to operate smoothly – once everything has been set up correctly. Adding functionalities such as auto-provisioning – which would comple the full stack of protocols – would greatly reduce the complexity of configuring these facilities.
The Live IP Software Toolkit (LIST) enables advanced measurements in IP-based live video production facilities.
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.
EBU Members are exchanging experiences with and best practices for using Non-Linear Editing (NLE) systems. Pose your question here!
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.
The EBU project group 5G Deployments addresses technical and non-technical issues related to business arrangements, deployment models, and regulatory conditions for 5G mobile systems.
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 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.
5G has the potential to improve technical and operational efficiency, increased flexibility, and reduce cost. The 5G in Content Production group brings together broadcasters and the industry in order to identify specific requirements in content production that need to be met in the 5G context.
The Media Cloud and Microservice Architecture (MCMA) provides code and best practices for the integration of processes in production workflows, including Artificial Intelligence in the cloud.
An association of organizations which seeked to develop specifications for programme guides, personalisation and recommendation (broadcast, online, etc.)
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.
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 EBU studies and analyses emerging immersive video systems, including Augmented Reality (AR).
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.
Information on how to test and classify professional cameras, including test reports.
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.
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.
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..
Content providers are facing increasing costs to deliver their live and on demand video/audio content to their customers over IP.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 way we consume media is changing. It is important for broadcasters to understand these changes and respond with adequate future leverage strategies.
The Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) brings together manufacturers, broadcasters and industry organizations in an open, participatory environment to drive interoperabilitiy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Broadcast Technology Futures Group is an alliance of non-industrial research and development laboratories that include broadcast futures in their activities.
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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