Broadcast quality control in the IPTV world
Posted: July 27, 2009
By: iptv-news.com
Quality control is becoming more important than ever in television (writes Steve Nunney, Managing Director of Hamlet, a UK provider of measurement and monitoring equipment to the television broadcast industry worldwide). Audiences care about technical quality, and notice failures. They are watching on larger screens than before, and these magnify any failings. Ideally, they would like HD content on their HD-ready screens.
This is a particular problem for IPTV operators, for a number of reasons. First, there is the pure technical reason that bandwidth is precious, and the temptation to increase compression ratios to save bitrate is strong. But the lower the bitrate the more artefacts will be visible…….[read entire story]
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