Globo Launches Pilot DTV+ Station in Rio: A New Era of Brazilian Broadcasting with MPEG-H Audio Begins

Brazil’s media giant Globo officially launched its pilot station for DTV+ in Rio de Janeiro. The milestone in the evolution of digital broadcasting in Brazil opens the door to immersive, interactive, and high-quality TV experiences.

easyDCP software suite – Ten years of enabling easy access to Digital Cinema

For almost a century it was sufficient to use a film roll, a projector, and a white wall or sheet of linen to display movie content at any time everywhere in the world. That seemed to be over – when digital became the new magic code for cinema beginning in the year 2005. The intention of the team of Heiko Sparenberg and Siegfried Foessel at Fraunhofer IIS was to keep this easy access to movie content everywhere, anytime, and almost on any cinema projection system also in the digital...

Fraunhofer IIS introduces SDK for JPEG XS image coding

Increasing amounts of permanent data with high resolution and high dynamic range will briefly swamp the transmission capabilities over long-distance cable lengths in studio environments, and while using existing coaxial cabling solutions. These trends in substituting specialized cables and switches for video transmission by commercial off the shelf (COTS) components and forcing the use of simple...

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MPEG-H 3D Audio Becomes 3GPP’s Standard Audio Codec for Video Streaming over Mobile Networks

Among other things, the VRStream specification defines audio and media profiles for mobile operators that want to offer fully immersive 360° video services cost-effectively on a broad range of mobile devices connected over the most advanced mobile networks, such as upcoming 5G networks. The joint proposal of Fraunhofer IIS and Qualcomm for the MPEG OMAF 3D Audio Baseline Profile, which is based on MPEG-H 3D Audio, is recommended as the only audio format for VRStream services, as part...