At tmt32, our Vice President Daniela Rieger addressed the topic of broadcasting together with Wolfgang Rein. Today, this usually means "Next Generation Audio" (NGA), at least as far as future prospects are concerned. She comments:

"The topic Broadcast/NGA/Trimedial Media showed at the Tonmeistertagung represented by ten interesting contributions that the broadcast sector is an important part of the audio landscape. Current applications such as the introduction of MPEG-H Audio as a mandatory audio codec in Brazil's new broadcasting system or the presentation of the new guidelines for speech intelligibility in television were represented as well as the topics of loudness, ADM and immersive audio."

Daniela Rieger moderating an NGA session on binaural production (Frank Melchior), loudness for feature films (Florian Camerer), metadata-based loudness adjustment (Bernd Bechtold) and other metadata topics (Alexander Weller). (© Markus Thiel)

In his tutorial in the NGA session, Frank Melchior explained how to produce binaurally. (© Boris Loehrer)