The State of Commercially Available 4K UHD Services
In a recent article we did a little investigative research on the state of 4K and four significant trends: The upgrade in picture quality is…
Immersive VR and 360 video at streamable bitrates: Are you crazy?
There have been many high-profile experiments with VR and 360 video in the past year. Immersive video is compelling, but large and unwieldy to…
4 Facts about 4K
We recently did a little investigative research on the state of 4k and here are four highlights of what we found. To start, as an industry,…
Can we profitably surf the Video Zettabyte Tsunami?
Two key ingredients are in place. But we need to get started now. In a previous post, we warned about the Zettabyte video tsunami – and the…
Translating Opinions into Fact When it Comes to Video Quality
This post was originally featured at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/translating-opinions-fact-when-comes-video-quality-mark-donnigan In this…
VCT, the Secret to Confident Subjective Video Quality Testing
We can all agree that analyzing video quality is one of the biggest challenges when evaluating codecs. Companies use a combination of…
Will Virtual Reality Determine the Future of Streaming?
As video services take a more aggressive approach to virtual reality (VR), the question of how to scale and deliver this bandwidth intensive…
Applications for On-the-Fly Modification of Encoder Parameters
As video encoding workflows modernize to include content adaptive techniques, the ability to change encoder parameters “on-the-fly” will…
How HDR, Network Function Virtualization, and IP Video are Shaping Cable
Beamr just returned from the Internet & Television Expo, or INTX, previously known as the Cable Show, where we identified three technology…
HDR adds ‘kapow’ to 4k
High Dynamic Range (HDR) improves video quality by going beyond more pixels to increase the amount of data delivered by each pixel. As a…