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Real-Time Video over IP Technology Develops

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On February 10th I attended a half-day Technology Symposium hosted by Snell Advanced Media (SAM) in New York. The Symposium had five speakers, Neil Maycock and David Tasker from SAM (https://s-a-m.com/), Tom Ohanian from …

Tags:Cisco| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SMPTE| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 07

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SMPTE Honored with a Special Award

by Isaac Oburu

SMPTE has received a Special Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The Special Award plaque was presented to SMPTE at the Academy’s annual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation, which …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Events| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 06

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SMPTE Announces New Team for 2016

by Tom Allen

SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio Services. Bob Edge …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| SMPTE| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 05

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SMPTE® Announces 2016 Directors and Appointment of New Governors-at-Large

by Isaac Oburu

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, today announced that the SMPTE Board of Governors has named …

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SMPTE Board Creates SMPTE U.K. Region and Appoints Bruce Devlin Governor

by Tom Allen

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, today announced that the SMPTE Board of Governors has formally …

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SMPTE Sets Up UK Region

by Tom Allen

SMPTE’s Board of Governors has formally approved the creation of the SMPTE UK Region. Bruce Devlin, chief media scientist at Dalet, has been appointed to serve as the new region’s first governor. The SMPTE …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 51

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ACES WCG/HDR Encoding Explained

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) has long puzzled me. At the November 18th section meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television New York chapter, Jim Houston, co-chair of the ACES Project …

Tags:ACES| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| Vol 22 - Issue 47| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Broadcasting Live Events in UHD Needs to be Addressed

by Helen Vince

The SMPTE has published an interesting article on the debate about the broadcast industry’s leap forward into Ultra High Definition, saying that there now needs to be a discussion about the front end of …

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Three Steps to Better Color

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The topic of Better Pixels, not more pixels has been a hot topic recently. “Better Pixels” includes several things such as wide color gamut (WCG), high dynamic range (HDR), high frame rate (HFR), etc. …

Tags:Colour (Color)| EBU| SMPTE| Vol 22 - Issue 34

UltraHD is a Challenge for Live TV

by Bob Raikes

We saw a very interesting article in the SMPTE Newswatch newsletter on the challenges for live TV broadcasters that are created by the move to UltraHD. The article, by Michael Goldman, highlights how productions …

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IntoPix Tico Enables AV over IP

by Bob Raikes

IntoPix is the developer of the Tico ‘light’ codec. Previously, the company told us that it had been looking at working with VESA on the next generation of the DisplayStream codec. (However, it has …

Tags:Codecs| Infocomm 2015| JPEG2000| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 26