"Just Good Enough audio won't cut it anymore"

High-quality audio is a crucial component of live sports broadcasting. Exceptional audio intensifies live sporting events and creates unforgettable moments that resonate on a deeper level. Reproducing the unique sounds of a stadium or racetrack to create truly engaging experiences for TV audiences is complex, but emerging technologies and deep innovation are beginning to change the game.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Sporting Events, Immersive Audio

Yannick Olivier, lead broadcast engineer, France Télévisions, and Costa Nikols, strategy advisor, M&E, Telos Alliance, look at the future of sport audio

Major live events like the Paris games, Paralympics and UEFA Euro 2024 dominated TV screens and drew in millions of audiences around the world this past summer. While growing investment in 4K UHD and ever-increasing demand for superior viewing quality push broadcasters and streaming services to innovate with more immersive on-screen experiences, there’s an unsung hero that has underpinned every cup final, gold-medal race and penalty shootout: the audio.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Sporting Events, 2024, S-ADM, Immersive Audio

Examining and implementing
S-ADM workflows

Serial ADM (S-ADM) is metadata that describes the elements of an audio program to enable object-based personalization in TV productions. It is defined in ITU-R BS.2125 and is starting to be adopted. This summer (2024), France TV and other European broadcasters will use it for the first time in broadcasts of some large-scale sporting events.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, 2024, S-ADM

NGA Metadata Format S-ADM and Jünger Audio flexAI

Serialized ADM (S-ADM) metadata describes the referenced audio to enable object-based Next Generation Audio (NGA) productions.  This white paper introduces our concept to enable S-ADM production workflows in the Jünger Audio flexible audio infrastructure flexAI for Dolby® Atmos distribution. Various audio processors can be added and routed internally to set up different broadcast chains. These processors can run on the AIXpressor and a range of flexAIserver audio processing servers. This allows for meeting various processing power and interfacing capability requirements. Examples of applications:

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Junger, flexAI, S-ADM

For truly dependable systems, resiliency is a must

When it comes to deploying any automated solution a commonly used maxim is to aim to avoid any single points of failure. This can be summarized by the phrase “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. In other words, spread your risk and try to make your solution as resilient as possible.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

Making time is easy with ATS' Frame Rate Toolbox

They say that time is precious, and this was particularly true for one of our radio customers, a multinational religious broadcaster which receives and processes hundreds of hours of content every day at their US headquarters from independent providers across the globe. With so much content coming from so many different sources, ensuring consistency and quality was always going to be a challenge.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

ATS Channel Assignment Detection Speeds Workflows

When you have content coming in from many different vendors and sources it can often feel a bit like the wild west, with no certainty over what audio channels are on any given file and in what order. Bringing order to this chaos and identifying the audio layout on each file can be both time-consuming and expensive - two things that don’t make great business sense!

This is the exact challenge that one of our Canadian customers faced.

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, AudioTools Server, 2024, AudioTools In Focus

Topics: Television Audio, Next Generaton Audio, Metadata, S-ADM

Dialog Intelligibility Gets A Big Boost With New Recommendation

“Hey, Turn That Down!”
You’ve experienced the problem: you set your TV volume at a level that’s comfortable for listening to the characters talk, only to grab the remote and frantically hit the “down” button when the action starts. Or, vice-versa: a volume level that's comfortable during loud scenes is too low for scenes with conversational dialog. Well, the latest update to the European Broadcasting Union’s R 128 recommendation, issued on November 10, 2023, takes us one step closer to solving the problem.

Topics: TV Loudness Management, Audio Loudness, Automation, Television Audio, Minnetonka Audio, Audio Tools Server

What the Heck, Where's the Tech?

ATSC 3.0 Next Generation Audio (NGA) System Demystified

Technology truly is a train that just keeps on rolling. With the world preparing for yet another advancement in personalized entertainment experience, acronyms are being thrown around like dice on the craps table. What does it all mean and how will any of it benefit the consumer?

Let’s take a deep dive into what a Next Generation Audio System can really do by looking at what’s happening in South Korea.

Topics: Television Audio, Linear Acoustic AMS, Next Generaton Audio