Streaming: Enhancing Media Production and Delivery in Cyberspace

Many years ago, I was watching the Winter Olympics on a CRT-based High-Definition TV in a development lab at work. ATSC was just becoming a standard, and I was astonished by the quality of the specular reflections in the ice during speed skating. I could not imagine what a 4K image would look like, let alone see it on a ${\$}$500 display. Nor could I imagine a day when millions of dollars' worth of live production gear would give way to some big, nebulous thing that everyone would call “the cloud.” Yet, here we are.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2026-04

Content type

Opinion

DOI

10.5594/JMI.2026/PMPL3952