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There’s life after a project’s end – at least for ORPHEUS. And we have to say, in the last six months since the official termination on May 31 2018, we’ve been still very busy at various occasions, presenting results, demoing the app and even initiating small follow-ups and colla … | Continue reading
The ORPHEUS project has created a full set of tools and applications for all stages of the complete broadcast workflow. Our goals were: To provide the end-users with a future-proof radio service which exceeds their expectations. To support the industry to master the technical cha … | Continue reading
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At the HIGH END audio trade show in Munich, Germany (May 10th – 13th, 2018), visitors were able to experience the first Trinnov Audio device that supports the interactive and immersive audio format MPEG-H 3D Audio, introducing the advantages of object-based audio with productions … | Continue reading
EU project ORPHEUS shows object-based media innovations at workshop in Munich on 15th May. Munich, 11th May 2018. Imagine you could adapt the length of a radio documentary as you require or listen to a radio drama from the positions of different protagonists in the play. These an … | Continue reading
Following the success of “Sound: Now and Next” in 2015, the BBC brought hundreds of audio producers and technologists back to Broadcasting House in London for a full day conference called “Sounds Amazing” on 2nd May 2018. The event included talks from the producers of inspiring w … | Continue reading
The primary objective of ORPHEUS is to create a full object-based workflow, from the initial recording of the program to its reception by the listener. The ORPHEUS Radio iOS app was developed by elephantcandy to bring the benefits and innovations of object-based broadcasting to a … | Continue reading
With around 100,000 attendees every year, NAB Show in Las Vegas is the world’s largest show focusing on media technology. Already present in 2016 and 2017, bcom had again a stand in the 2018 NAB Show Futures Park area where they showcased some of the production tools developed du … | Continue reading
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And all of a sudden it’s just 8 weeks before the end…. We’ve deliberately planned our last working meeting to be held at IRT in Munich, as this will also be the venue for our final workshop on May 15th. And so the final planning of this event was one of the main tasks during […] | Continue reading
The ORPHEUS team has developed and published an app that allows anyone interested to experience the project’s vision for object-based audio. The ORPHEUS App runs on mobile devices with the iOS operating system (version 10.X or higher, running on iPhone 6 upwards). The app is avai … | Continue reading
The ORPHEUS team has developed and published an app that allows anyone interested to experience the project’s vision for object-based audio. The ORPHEUS App runs on mobile devices with the iOS operating system (version 10.X or higher, running on iPhone 6 upwards). The app is avai … | Continue reading
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Object-based media is the ultimate approach for creating and deploying interactive, personalised, scalable and immersive content. It allows media objects to be assembled in novel ways to create new and enhanced user experiences, being responsive to user needs as well as environme … | Continue reading
In ORPHEUS, we have defined the scope of Quality of Experience (QoE) by identifying different aspects and research foci of our partners. In this context, we recognized that for ‘object-based’ media a multi-dimensional approach is to be taken. On the one hand, many of the new qual … | Continue reading
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For pilot phase 2 of the project the ORPHEUS team decided to implement an important interactive use case: programs with a variable length. This feature means that people with a different level of interest in a certain program can listen to up to 5 different versions of the same p … | Continue reading
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On 7-8 December 2017, Fraunhofer IIS will host a workshop on object-based audio in Erlangen, Germany. It is organised by the media academy of German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF in collaboration with Fraunhofer IIS. The focus is on practical applications and benefits of object … | Continue reading
Having received great reception and encouraging feedback at the EBU booth during IBC, we dared to ask EBU Head of Radio, Graham Dixon, to present our app demo at the upcoming EBU New Radio Day at BR in Munich (call it a home match). Graham, along with New Radio Group Chair, JP Co … | Continue reading
The IBC – the International Brodcast Covention – in Amsterdam’s RAI fair trade centre is the biggest annual broadcast technology event in Europe. This year it celebrated the 50th anniversary with a new record of 1,700 exhibitors and 57,000 visitors from all over the world during … | Continue reading
Amsterdam, 14 September 2017. IBC 2017, the world’s leading media, entertainment and technology show, has started today. It will run until Tuesday, 19 September. If you are attending, use the opportunity to visit one of the five booths, where ORPHEUS results are shown. In the ex … | Continue reading
ORPHEUS project shows object-based audio solutions at IBC | Today, a radio broadcast is the same for everyone. That could change with the object-based audio solutions developed by EU research project ORPHEUS, which has the potential to revolutionise the listener experience. The r … | Continue reading
Our partner Elephantcandy is based in Amsterdam – luckily. So our meeting #7 was perfectly scheduled for July 18th to 20th, along with the best summer weather. Our colleagues had picked the stylish Pakhuis de Zwijger, a former cooling warehouse for food, turned in 2006 into a c … | Continue reading
The ORPHEUS project will have a major presence at IBC 2017, which takes place in Amsterdam from 14 to 19 September. IBC is the world’s leading media, entertainment and technology show. In 2016 it attracted 55,000 attendees from more than 170 countries. ORPHEUS will be strongly re … | Continue reading
Mid-June was the hot phase of preparing ORPHEUS pilot 1, and we found it to be the right time for our first project workshop. BBC R&D kindly co-organised and hosted this one-day meeting at BBC’s impressive New Broadcasting House in London on 13 June 2017. We had invited a handpic … | Continue reading
On 17-18 May 2017, The ORPHEUS team presented selected project results on object-based audio at an EBU seminar in Geneva. The European Broadcasting Union ,EBU, is the world’s leading alliance of public service media, representing 73 broadcasters in 56 countries. It is mainly know … | Continue reading
This year’s NAB Show on 24 – 27 April 2017 attracted more than 102,000 registered participants from over 160 countries to the Las Vegas Convention Center. They wanted to see what the more than 1,700 exhibitors had to offer in terms of innovative products and services in the areas … | Continue reading
Audio is in the DNA of a broadcaster. And German broadcasters can take a claim on history, that HiFi-stereophony got first applied in wartime Berlin 1944, Haus des Rundfunks Studio No.1, when Beethoven’s 5th piano concerto was captured on a 2-track tape machine. 30 years later, i … | Continue reading
On 13 June 2017, the ORPHEUS research project will hold its first workshop at the BBC in London. The workshop is specifically aimed at broadcasters and manufacturers of broadcast equipment who are interested in object-based and IP-based technologies. ORPHEUS experts will demonstr … | Continue reading