August 2011
Features
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AutomationAug 15, 2011 4:45 PM, BY SID GUEL Broadcasting and the production of content are complex enough. With 24/7 operations and 100- percent uptime requirements, any changes to a broadcast operation... |
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Understanding blocking capacitor effectsAug 15, 2011 4:43 PM, BY RENAUD LAVOIE Why should we do AC-coupling on SDI and, how does AC-coupling degrade our SDI signal? In past experiences, many engineers asked me this simple question,... |
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IBC2011 Preview: Making the RIGHT connectionsAug 15, 2011 4:00 PM AUTOMATED CONTENT REPURPOSING AND MULTIDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Grass Valley MediaFUSE 2.0 Enables TV broadcasters and multiplatform content providers to automatically... |
Beyond the Headlines
Dynamic storage tiering
Aug 15, 2011 4:40 PM, BY RON BIANCHINI
Data-intense broadcast projects can require petabytes of data with several hundred terabytes often actively in production at any given time. The need...
TV spectrum auctions
Aug 15, 2011 4:36 PM, BY HARRY C. MARTIN
In June, the Senate Commerce Committee approved S.911, a bipartisan bill that represents the most detailed effort yet to make TV band spectrum auctions...
Multiscreen delivery
Aug 15, 2011 4:33 PM, BY ALEX DOBRUSHIN
For broadcasters and other content providers, the dropping price of bandwidth combined with the proliferation of video-capable devices PCs, smartphones,...
Video servers
Aug 15, 2011 4:35 PM, BY ANDREW WARMAN
How much performance can be squeezed from a 1RU device when its primary purpose is to ingest and play back video clips? Perhaps surprisingly, it's an...
Digital Handbook
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MPEG-4 AVC systemsAug 15, 2011 4:30 PM, BY ALDO CUGNINI MPEG-4 AVC offers many tools for coding video and higher coding efficiency than MPEG-2. The growing number of AVC applications is facilitated by a broad... |
Programming routers
Aug 15, 2011 4:26 PM, BY BRAD GILMER
This month's article will introduce network router programming. If you have not worked with IT infrastructure, you may be surprised at the number of options...
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Mic designAug 15, 2011 4:25 PM, BY KEVIN K. RUPPERT, CPBE, CBNT You see them in music videos. You see them on album art and in classic photos of famous musicians recording in their studios. If you're lucky, you might... |
Systems Integration
IP for signal management
Aug 15, 2011 4:22 PM, BY NEIL SHARPE
With the wider adoption of IT-based infrastructures for playout facilities, it's natural to consider the scope for moving to IP-based signal management...
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RetoolingAug 15, 2011 4:21 PM, BY GARY ESKOW She remains an icon, one of the most recognized celebrities on the planet, and her decision to pull the plug on her wildly popular television show sent... |
New Products & Reviews
Dolby's PRM-4200
Aug 15, 2011 4:05 PM, BY BOB FRYE
While the death of the CRT is welcome news for the environment, professionals who have relied on the CRT for critical work like color correction are less...
The LMH0387
Aug 15, 2011 4:03 PM, BY GARY MELCHIOR
Traditionally, SDI ports on video equipment have been fixed as either inputs or outputs. This has led to hardware designers choosing architectures with...
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RTW's TouchMonitorAug 15, 2011 4:04 PM, BY MIKE KAHSNITZ The entire pro audio industry, particularly those working in broadcast, is currently undergoing a fast paradigm shift from traditional peak metering of... |
Spectra Logic's T950
Aug 15, 2011 4:02 PM, BY BRUCE JACOBS
As one of the most watched PBS affiliates in the nation, at Minnesota-based Twin Cities Public Television (tpt), we were grappling with the storage and...
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CNN standardizes across all of its platformsAug 15, 2011 4:17 PM, BY BOB HESSKAMP AND MICHAEL KOETTER As CNN brings content to air on CNN, CNN International, CNN en Espanol and HLN, and to the Internet on CNN.com, our goal is to leverage our substantial... |
Video compression
Aug 15, 2011 4:10 PM, BY JOHN LUFF
Reality in our industry is all in the presentation of approximations of reality. The essence of video and audio compression is the selective discarding...
NEW PRODUCTS & REVIEWS
Aug 15, 2011 4:00 PM
EvertzJ2K Encoder and decoder cards offer JPEG2000 SD and HD compression; use variable JPEG2000 compression rate on ASI or IP; designed to offer better...
Departments
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Connecting with viewersAug 15, 2011 4:20 PM, Brad Dick EDITORIAL DIRECTOR The path from the TV station to a viewer's television set used to be simple and direct: transmit antenna to receive antenna. Today, there are a variety... |
Matching temporal and spatial resolution
Aug 15, 2011 4:18 PM, DAVID AUSTERBERRY, EDITOR
Recently I got a second chance to see the Sony test movie which was first shown at NAB. Shot and projected in 4K, the pictures are stunning. As I watched...
Virtual trade shows
Aug 15, 2011 4:01 PM, BY ANTHONY R. GARGANO
An electrical problem has shut down Amtrak and closed the northeast corridor tracks into New York. Those were the words I heard one morning at 5 a.m....
