Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) October 2017 Volume 34, Issue 8

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DVB forms liaison with
SAT>IP Alliance
GENEVA – DVB and the SAT>IP
Alliance have entered into a formal
liaison agreement on the future
development of the SAT>IP speci-
fication. The deal states that future
promotion of the technology will
be conducted jointly, and will allow
the DVB community to contribute
to next-generation SAT>IP features
and services.
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Professional media over IP:
Building a future-proof media facility
by shawn liew
New JV pushes for best
HDR experience
LOS ANGELES – 20th Century Fox,
Samsung and Panasonic are in a
new partnership to create an “open,
royalty-free” dynamic metadata
platform for high dynamic range
(HDR) through an associated cer-
tification and logo programme,
tentatively called HDR10+. Starting
next January, the entity will license
the metadata to content companies
4K/Ultra HD (UHD) TVs, Blu-ray disc
players/recorders and set-top box
manufacturers.
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With the first standards within SMPTE ST 2110 now approved, will this
development encourage more broadcasters to work in IP, and what must be
done to ensure that future-proof media facilities can be built?
Taiwan PTS’ 4K/UHD TV
trial of games a success
by josephine tan
TAIPEI – At the 29th Summer Uni-
versiade held last August, Taiwan
Public Television Service (PTS) com-
menced its first operation of 4K/
Ultra HD (UHD) broadcast over ter-
restrial TV. The key objective of the
experimental broadcast, Hamilton
Cheng, research coordinator for
PTS, told APB, is to find alternatives
to enhance PTS’ digital TV service.
Specific goals during the trial,
he elaborated, included an assess-
ment on the specification of 4K/
UHD TV transmission
and auxiliary test, and ensuring
interoperability between equip-
ment, from headend systems to
receiving devices. PTS also sought
to enhance the display resolution
of 4K/UHD video by integrating
the HEVC/H.265 video compres-
sion standard.
PTS, Cheng revealed, has been
monitoring the rollout of 4K/
UHD content in Asia, albeit in
a conservatice manner, as they
believe the genre of 4K/UHD pro-
gramming has yet to be clearly
defined. “In Asia, the best example
NEW YORK – The ongoing transi-
tion to broadcast IP has been given
a shot in the arm, after the Society
of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers (SMPTE) announced
the approval of the first standards
within SMPTE ST 2110, Professional
Media Over Managed IP Networks.
The new standards suite speci-
fies the carriage, synchronisa-
tion and description of separate
elementary essence streams over
professional IP networks in real
time, for the purposes of live pro-
duction, playout and other profes-
sional media applications.
Matthew Goldman, president
of SMPTE and SVP of technology,
TV and Media, Ericsson, said: “Radi-
cally altering the way professional
media streams can be handled,
processed and transmitted, SMPTE
ST 2110 standards go beyond
the replacement of SDI with IP to
support the creation of an entirely
new set of applications that lever-
age information technology (IT)
protocols and infrastructure.”
The use of IP enables the tran-
sition to 100% software-based,
virtualised and software-defined
functions, which in turn allows
for the dynamic re-assignment
of resources to maximise utilisa-
tion, Michel Proulx, former CTO of
Miranda Technologies, told APB.
An industry veteran with 35
years of experience working in
the broadcast TV industry, Proulx
has been consulting for a number
of broadcasters and broadcast
industry vendors since his retire-
ment as CTO of Miranda Technol-
ogies in 2012. His current focus is
helping broadcasters understand
and navigate the rapidly evolving
OTT distribution landscape and
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