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A Perfect Planet Looks Fantastic

by Bob Raikes

What They Say If you have access (you might need a VPN with a UK location), the BBC series ‘A Perfect Planet’ is available in UltraHD with HD on the BBC iPlayer. What We …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| UltraHD| Video Quality

Ssimwave Team Wins Second Emmy Award In Six Years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ssimwave has won its second Emmy Award for work in Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization. The firm’s Ssimplus incorporates characteristics of the human visual system and produces an …

Tags:Awards| Video Quality

Super-Resolution: Why is it good and how can you incorporate it?

by Bob Raikes

Welcome to Part 2 of Bitmovin’s Video Tech Deep Dive series: Super-Resolution with Machine learning. Before you get started, I highly recommend that you readSuper Resolution: What’s the buzz and why does it matter?. …

Tags:Big Data/AI| HFR - High Frame Rate| Upscaling| Video Quality

Super Resolution: What’s the buzz and why does it matter?

by Adithyan Ilangovan

Super resolution has been gaining steam recently. Many companies, secretly and not-so-secretly, have been incorporating this technology into their workflow. Most notably: Samsung has started advertising this feature in their latest flagship phone camera’s …

Tags:Big Data/AI| HFR - High Frame Rate| Upscaling| Video Quality

Pixelworks Gaining Wins for its Smartphone Processing

by Bob Raikes

Over the last couple of weeks, there have been a couple of articles in our press releases that highlighted the use of Pixelworks technology in smartphones from TCL and OnePlus. Just before the first …

Tags:Pixelworks| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Video Quality

Games of Thrones: The Very Dark Night – What went wrong (and how can WE fix it)?

by Patrick Inhofer

Game of Thrones (GoT) Episode 803, “The Long Night”, recently took over social media – with fans complaining about the cinematography and color grading, delivering scenes so dark the images were nearly indecipherable. The …

Tags:Broadcast| Codecs| Colour Grading| HBO| HDR - High Dynamic Range| OTT Video| Video Quality

How Game of Thrones Broke Streaming and Why We Need to Fix It

by Chris Chinnock

In case you have been under a rock lately, the most popular streaming TV show of all time, Game of Thrones, created a chorus of complaints about how dim “The Long Night” episode was. …

Tags:Codecs| Netflix| OTT Video| Streaming Video| Video Quality

Akamai to Use Eurofins to Test and Measure Video QoE

by Andrew Fenn

Eurofins Digital Testing, a provider of end-to-end quality assurance QA and testing services, has announced that it will provide Akamai Technologies with extensive research into OTT quality-of-experience (QoE), giving both companies’ customers an objective …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Testing| Video Quality| Vol 25 - Issue 08

Heard of Rolling Shutter?

by Bob Raikes

A hat tip to DPReview, the photography site, for directing me to a really well done demonstration of the ‘rolling shutter’ phenomenon on many video cameras. If you’re not sure what it is, check …

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Photography| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Video Quality| Vol 24 - Issue 27

FreeWheel Council for Premium Video Expands into Europe

by Bob Raikes

Following on the development of the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video (FWC) in North America, the FWC announced its European launch, extending its remit to champion the premium video industry on an international level. …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Video Quality| VOD| Vol 24 - Issue 25