Broadcast Engineering & IT Conference

Includes Attendee Welcome, Conference Introduction, BEIT Proceedings Best Paper Award, Keynote speech and more.

Content provided by BEIT Conference Education Partner the Society of Broadcast Engineers.

Content provided by BEIT Conference Education Partner the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA).

Content provided by BEIT Conference Education Partner, Society of Cable Television Engineers.

Uncovering new-found techniques that leverage AI-based compression technology to enable optimal video encoding performance and utilize infrastructure in a more operational - and cost-efficient - way.

Collection of market trends, challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned during the implementation of groundbreaking pilots and compelling production ready ATSC3 applications.

Paper on how AI can reduce the carbon footprint of live ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and OTT streaming with encoding schemes on top of deployed codecs, while maintaining interoperability with consumer products.

The NextGen Broadcast Application is a robust solution that provides broadcasters with the ability to turn ATSC 3.0 Broadcasts into an interactive experiences that rivals popular OTT services.

We present a Nextgen TV future filled using single frequency networks (SFN). “Filled” meaning increased signal strength as well as increased station revenue and/or mission value through their use.

CLEAR Vision Cloud's Segmentation helps eliminate playout errors drastically and increases monetization by auto-generating frame-accurate segmentation metadata with close to 100% accuracy.

This paper examines the benefits of the ATSC 3.0 data delivery platform, outlining how broadcasters can best implement a NextGen TV datacasting environment and leverage opportunistic data insertion.

One of the biggest challenges in the design of modern era media delivery systems is the need to reach a population of user devices with different codec and stream switching capabilities.

This presentation discusses the ability of 100% cloud-based architectures to deliver the 99.99% availability – even for live events – required by today’s demanding consumers.

PBS North Carolina and its partners have made significant progress in demonstrating the use of ATSC 3.0 for emergency communications to First Responders.

We detail a configurable, interoperable, and scalable OTA datacasting system to monetize available bandwidth capacity and discuss delivery tracking available in a hybrid transmission environment.

Considering techniques developed by the video game industry when faced with challenges of audience fragmentation and personalization, and how they can be selectively applied to streaming media.

The new Open Caching standard moves away from proprietary systems, while still supporting established CDNs, last-mile providers and streaming technologies that bring content closer to the consumer.

HDR lures, yet challenges, content producers. Content sources and display targets vary widely in luminance capability. Tone mapping solutions offer different degrees of ease and quality.

This talk discusses the Open Caching configuration interface for CDNs, how the project was born, how it is moving through the SVA and IETF, and what it means for the industry.

An innovative method that delivers a single stream of bandwidth efficient, backward-compatible video which is decodable and displayable by both legacy (non-HDR) and new HDR-capable devices.

OTT/D2C services seek to enable fast and effective watermarking at a lower cost to better prevent piracy. This session will outline how to tackle this need by encrypting content at the CDN’s Edge.

A fast and efficient per-title encoding scheme is proposed for live Ultra High Definition (UHD) High Framerate (HFR) streaming which includes optimized resolution and framerate prediction.

This session will explore how service providers can increase revenue by deploying targeted advertising within freemium, premium & catch-up content, as well as in the UI, leveraging AI & analytics.

We all remember the "good old days", when system integration meant plugging physical boxes together, and them just working? Why isn't doing this in the cloud just as easy, or easier?

This presentation describes a means to reduce the wasteful infrastructure costs of Video on Demand, while improving the operational immediacy that customers require.

Shipping containers revolutionized the shipping industry; “software containers” are revolutionizing software processes. Containerized software powers audio mixing, processing, and distribution.

Not ready to entrust your entire broadcast chain to a cloud provider? Containerization lets broadcasters move freely between the cloud and onsite, providing the benefits without the security risks.

Leveraging ANSI/SCTE 224 standard for content replacement, regional blackout and monetization using a unified workflow for IP, Satellite and OTT distribution.

Join this All-Access super session to both honor our 2022 engineering award winners and to hear about the massive battle currently raging for streaming dominance.

Authors of "Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix": Book Signing

The paper explores the use of PTP over 5G with 3GPP Release 16 and 17 Time Synchronization support, explains open-source setup, 5G time synchronization enabler, and results from the lab trials.

In this paper, we present the 5G-MAG Reference Tools implementing features of 3GPP Rel. 16 5G Media Streaming and 5G Broadcast and demonstrate the use case "broadband-broadcast seamless switching".

Introduction to 5G Broadcast and its emerging ecosystem of reference tools. Synergies with ATSC3.0 and its applicability to the TV3.0 project will be discussed.

Ransomware has become the most popular and the most successful cybersecurity threat faced by the broadcast IT Engineer today. Can it really be prevented in the broadcast facility?

In the past year broadcasters have been increasingly targeted by cyber attackers. This session will analyze the attacks and provide effective tools for dealing with them and future ones.

A NoCode Media integration platform democratizes the content supply chain deployments and business improvements to people that are not technical. How it can help to eliminate all the security risks?

The integration of cameras into IP infrastructures opens up new application possibilities, but also challenges. How can integration be optimized to achieve improved workflows?

This paper discusses the characteristics of NDI, its advantages in a master control room, its respective challenges and how to overcome the challenges effectively.

Overview of the upcoming RIST open Specification for synchronized multi-stream transport over IP, with actual field data from an implementation.

In recent years the technology for thermal imaging has been combined with drone technology bringing a new dimension to tower and antenna system inpections.

Drone-based RF measurement and compliancy solutions are challenging traditional RF measurement procedures and practices for all Broadcast technologies from AM, FM and HD Radio to ATSC TV.

Grounding system enhancements have been rare while broadcast system enhancements have been plentiful. Grounding has simply not kept up putting facilities at risk of increased expenses and down time.

The pandemic forced producers to think differently about content. We'll talk about the lessons learned as broadcasters had to pivot and adopt more REMI models into their workflow.

Learn how Broadcasters and producers overcame the restrictions of the pandemic using 5G and REMI technology.

This paper discusses how the decentralization of the modern workforce has created many new challenges, considerations, and adoption of new technologies for Live and Post Production workflows.

The SMPTE ST 2064 AV Sync Standard is intended for lipsync measurement, but has far greater utility in today's world. This discusses those uses, and how the Standard might be augmented.

This paper outlines advanced news workflows to provide real time access to media from field cameras as well as automating the inclusion of supporting metadata from the newsroom computer system.

Architecting workflows by leveraging distributed multi-cloud data management tools provides fast and universal accessibility of content while limiting egress charges and content vulnerability.

A brief history of the development of all-digital AM, the advantages that all-digital AM provides, and a discussion of how the industry might successfully transition from analog to all-digital.

Processed FM MPX, all HD audio and data can now be delivered directly to an FM transmitter with aligned FM and HD audio from global on-premise or cloud datacenters simplifying HD Radio transmission.

This paper examines the real-world impacts of an AM directional antenna pattern (specifically, WWFD's nighttime pattern) on the quality of its MA3 transmissions.

New technology for broadband radio antennas.

Using satellite connectivity to FM radio stations, this text-based emergency notification system rapidly delivers secure, encrypted alerts in less than 5 seconds for wildfire, earthquake, flood hazards.

While a simple skirt feed, with multiple parallel wires insulated from the tower is fairly common, other methods such as slant-wire feeds and skirts with other geometries offer substantial advantages.

Messaging updates to partners and teammates is instrumental to operating smooth processes, especially when it comes broadcast. As throughput increase, the need to automate messaging is very important.

The paper describes a way to manage proxy content such that its use can be done dynamically and reliably using a “late binding” approach that doesn’t require metadata to be converted back and forth.