The 2007 - 2009 HDTV / Digital Trends Report is now available. Data for the report was derived from extensive surveys of broadcast and professional video/film production/post facilities, worldwide.
This extensive 75 page report includes an Executive Summary, followed by an analysis, charts and tables of how the broadcast / professional video marketplace equipment endusers respond to the following key trends:
Executive Summary
The Big Picture
Future Forecast
Analysis of Key Findings, Tables, Charts
HD / SD / Digital Video Trends
By when do you expect to deal with widescreen SD video?
By when do you expect to deal with widescreen HD video?
By when do you expect to use SD-to-HD up conversion? 5
By when do you expect to use HD-to-SD down conversion?
By when do you expect to be dealing with 24p HD video?
By when do you expect to have an all digital standard definition production facility?
By when do you expect to have an all HDTV production facility?
By when do you expect to be dealing with 2K video?
By when do you expect to be dealing with 4K video?
By when do you expect to provide HD standards conversion?
By when will you transition to a tapeless workflow?
By when will you no longer utilize tape for video production?
Do you expect all editing to be a hybrid of linear and non-linear strategies?
By when do you expect to completely replace linear editing with non-linear in your facility?
By when do you expect to be producing IPTV content in your facility?
By when do you expect to be producing mobile video content in your facility?
By when do you expect to be using Media Asset Management (MAM)?
By when do you expect to be using an NLE capable of dealing with uncompressed (1.5 Gbps) HDTV?
By when do you expect to be using a compressed HD NLE?
By when do you expect to provide compression coding with advanced pre-processing (i.e., noise reduction, filtering, etc.)?
By when do you expect to provide multi-pass compression encoding?
By when do you expect to be doing transcoding of compressed video streams?
By when do you expect your facility to be using MPEG-2 compression with variable coding parameters, ie variable rate coding? 26
By when do you expect your facility to be usingAVC/H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 compression?
By when do you expect your facility to be using MPEG-7?
By when do you expect your facility to be using JPEG-2000?
By when do you expect to use Active Format Description for aspect ratio?
Audio for Video Trends
By when do you expect to produce programming with 5.1 channel audio? By when do you expect to use Dolby E? By when do you expect to be dealing with metadata? What type(s) of metadata?
Digital Video IT Infrastructure Trends
By when do you expect to be using a Local Area Network (LAN) for "internal video interconnections", i.e., passing video not files?
By when do you expect to be using a Wide Area Network (WAN) or "external interconnection" for exchanging information with other facilities on a video-file basis?
By when do you expect to be using a Wide Area Network (WAN) or "external interconnection" for exchanging information with other facilities on a streaming video basis?
By when do you expect to be using a Storage Area Network (SAN)?
By when do you expect to use Network Attached Storage (NAS)?
By when do you expect to use SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for managing work flow? 40
By when do you expect to use a digital archive for protecting content?
By when do you expect to use MXF for file interchange?
By when do you expect to use BXF (Broadcast Exchange Format) for communication between Automation, Archive Management, and Traffic?
Format Trends
Which video format/s do you use currently?
Which analog and/or digital video camcorder formats are you currently using for acquisition?
Which HD/SD formats and nominal frame rates do you now use?
Which Compressed Bit Stream Digital Video Stream Formats do you currently use?
In linear HD editing, what minimum HD compressed data rate do you use/plan to use? | 
