Category Archives: SMPTE

The Clocking Crisis: Why the Cloud is Breaking Broadcast IP

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The Clocking Crisis: Why the Cloud is Breaking Broadcast IP

The move from SDI to IP was supposed to grant the broadcast industry ultimate flexibility. However, while ST 2110 and AES67 work flawlessly on localized, “bare metal” ground networks, they hit a wall when crossing into the cloud.

The industry is currently struggling with a “compute failure” during the back-and-forth between Ground-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground. The culprit isn’t a lack of processing power—it’s the rigid reliance on Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in an environment that cannot support it. Continue reading →

The Fitter’s Trap: Why Precision Must Replace Bespoke in Broadcast

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How the lessons of the 19th-century workshop explain the future of AMWA NMOS and the shift to a Service Economy.

In the mid-19th century, Sir Joseph Whitworth gave the world a standard for the screw thread. It was a masterpiece of order, intended to make the mechanical world predictable. But while Britain invented the standard, it lost the manufacturing war. Why? Because British workshops refused to let go of “The Fitter.” Continue reading →

SMPTE TTC 2024

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Anthony Kuzub, Chair of the AES Toronto, Sr. Systems Designer at CBC/Radio-Canada
Title: The Audio Industry & “AI”
Synopsis: Synthetic media is revolutionizing the world, but the audio industry has been at the forefront of innovation since the 1970s. Over the decades, the industry has adapted by implementing advanced automation, developing speech recognition, transforming sounds to create new auditory experiences, and generating entirely new sounds for content creation. Anthony P. Kuzub will explore these developments and the impact of AI on media, offering insights into the ongoing evolution of audio and synthetic media.