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NAB Labs
Delivers at 2014 NAB Show
At the 2014
NAB Show, NAB Labs was engaged in a variety of presentations. These
included the NAB Labs Futures Park, several NAB Show Super Sessions,
a Broadcast Engineering Conference session, and a pair of day-long
workshops.
NAB Labs
Futures Park
The 2014 Futures Park featured over a dozen exhibits representing
the research and development work of more than 25 companies. Perennial
favorite NHK presented a 30-minute program of Super Hi-Vision (SHV)
content, featuring 8K video and 22.2-channel sound. This year’s
SHV theater seated 100+ people, and NHK tallied more than 5,000
attendees for its SHV showings across the four-day exhibition. NHK
also successfully demonstrated for the first time anywhere outside
of Japan a short-range broadcast transmission of SHV using a single
6 MHz TV channel. Other presentations in the NHK booth included
the world’s first real-time 8K HEVC encoder, new 8K camera
technologies, and soundbars providing a virtualized representation
of SHV’s 22.2 channel audio, suitable for domestic installation.
Other technologies
at this year’s Futures Park featured research projects on 4K
TV over HTML5 and MPEG DASH, high dynamic-range and high frame-rate
video, advanced emergency alerting for TV and radio broadcasting,
targeted advertising, augmented broadcasting, advances in video
colorimetry, a novel approach to 3D video, 6K to 4K video conversion,
panoramic video, and media-archive preservation techniques.
| Entrance
to the 2014 NAB Labs Futures Park in the North Hall of the Las
Vegas Convention Center. |
NAB Show
Super Sessions
Super Sessions produced by NAB Labs included well-attended presentations
entitled, “Consumers, 4K and Next Gen Home Entertainment –
Which Experiences Will Most Excite Them?”; “Anytime, Anywhere,
Any Device – Advanced Mobile Developments”; and “Advanced
Video Technologies – Visions of the Future.”
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| Moderator
Cindy McKenzie, (Price Waterhouse Coopers) talks all things
mobile during Super Session "Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device
- Advanced Mobile Developments." |
Kevin
Gage (NAB), Harri Koponen (NPTV) and Saul Berman (IBM) discuss
future global trends in mobile during Super Session "Anytime,
Anywhere, Any Device." |
BEC and Workshops
NAB Labs also produced the BEC session, “ATSC 3.0 Update,”
and a special session entitled “Hybrid Radio – Making
it Happen at Your Station,” both of which also enjoyed high
attendance.
| Speakers
gather for a group shot after the Hybrid Radio workshop. From
left to right, Eric Williams (Sprint), Joseph D'Angelo (iBiquity),
Tim Clarke (Cox Media), Kevin Gage (NAB), Paul Brenner (Emmis),
Scott Burnell (Ford) and Paul Shulins (Greater Media). |
Two full-day
workshops produced by NAB Labs were the “RF Boot Camp”
and the “Digital Strategies Exchange for Radio”.
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| Paul
Shulins (Greater Media), Gary Cavell and Cindy Cavell (Cavell,
Mertz and Assoc) offer basic knowledge regarding transmission
operations at broadcast radio and television stations at the
RF Boot Camp. |
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| Radio
digital strategy leaders Sam Stiers (Interactive One Local),
Alan Segal (Cox Media) and Lacey House (Cromwell) examine their
successes and challenges at the "Digital Strategies Exchange
for Radio" workshop. |
Related Resources
Most of the sessions listed above are now available on-demand via
NAB Playback
Also available are the Proceedings of the 2014 NAB Broadcast
Engineering Conference.
The
Proceedings are provided in print form (paperback, 600 pp), with
a CD-ROM included.
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NAB
would also like to give special thanks to the Baylor University
students for their hard work and dedication to making this year’s
technology conferences a success.
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NAB
would also like to give special thanks to our 2014 interns from
Baylor University for their hard work and dedication to making
this year's technology conferences a success.
From left: Hilary Reeves, Steven Trebus, Brent Bailey and David
Li, of Baylor University |
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