Mathematics and Broadcast Technology

Video technology is expanding rapidly and revolutionizing the way we do business.  With the advent of smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, innovations like Netflix and Hulu, and every other mode in which we absorb video, we can now watch our news, movies, or other entertainment from devices in the convenient location of our pockets and purses and with several new and interesting services.  Those of us in the broadcast and television industries are quickly realizing that these technologies and innovations are the way forward.  Our youth, particularly, are more readily adopting and participating in this emerging culture of varied video options– it’s new, exciting, and increasingly ubiquitous.

To sustain and build upon these technologies, however, we need to channel that energy and excitement for new technology into education that provides for its sustenance – namely STEM education.  April was national Mathematics Awareness Month, and we at Telairity want to do our part to spread the word, throughout the year.  Mathematics, and for us particularly the mathematics used in data compression algorithms, is a vital discipline to the television industry.  Without data compression, the entire digital video industry would collapse; moreover, encoding technologies must continually improve, to enable evolving video resolution standards, from MPEG-2 for SD in the 1990s, to H.264 for HD in the2000s, to new HEVC technology for new 4K digital standards in the 2010s.

As ever, education is imperative for growth and progress, and STEM education holds the key for technical industries everywhere.  The flexibility inherent in the media consumer culture must be paralleled by companies that are able to innovate and adapt quickly to the changing technological demands.  This is only achievable with a technically-oriented  workforce, to whom STEM education is a priority.  Join Telairity in encouraging the education that will allow our industry to flourish, and help inspire young minds to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.