February 1, 2012
Features
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4K2K sensors and moreFeb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY STEVE MULLEN Several paradoxes lay in the path from NTSC to 4K2K production. First, although it is trivial to build a CMOS sensor with several times the 8.3MP needed... |
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A BMS checklistFeb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY DAVID SHAPIRO Today's broadcasting management environment presents us with many new challenges, such as nonlinear scheduling, multiple platform broadcasting and advertising,... |
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2012: A bumper year for European OBsFeb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY KEVIN HILTON Outside broadcasts are important to the TV industry and viewers alike. This is illustrated by how much of the schedule is taken up with live or recorded... |
Beyond the Headlines
Cellular bonding
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY DR. RONY OHAYON AND BARUCH ALTMAN
Covering live news events via traditional SNG technologies has been an expensive and logistically difficult business. However, with the advent of cellular...
New spectrum use approved
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY HARRY C. MARTIN
The FCC has approved the first white space database and the first user devices. Such devices were to begin operation on Jan. 26, 2012, in the Wilmington,...
Multilingual playout
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY ALISON PAVITT
As content providers acquire rights to distribute media worldwide, the demand to produce and play out content in multiple languages is increasing. This...
Automating content preparation
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY STEPHANE BLONDIN
Recently, a lot of time and energy has been invested in squeezing the complexity out of the television playout chain. A key initiative has been the ongoing...
Digital Handbook
Broadcast in transition
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY ALDO CUGNINI
Broadcasting is in a transition that goes beyond the mere conversion of analog systems to digital platforms. Various initiatives are leading the way to...
Video over Ethernet
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY BRAD GILMER
Last month, we explored the merging of IP with SDI. This month, we will continue to explore this topic by looking at recent work on video over Ethernet....
Editing systems
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY CHRISTOPHER WALKER
As a broadcast consultant and college media instructor, I'm often asked about NLEs. Probably no other product technology has had such a huge effect on...
The business of video delivery
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY DUNCAN POTTER
By now everyone is well aware of the massive growth in video traffic across the Internet. This traffic growth, by most available forecasts, shows little...
Systems Integration
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MADIFeb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY RYAN SALAZAR When the acronym MADI (Multichannel Audio Digital Interface) appears, it may invoke thoughts of the 1980's MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface).... |
New Products & Reviews
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Utah Scientific's UTAH-400/144Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY GARY SCHRODER In April 2010, Louisville-based station WDRB-TV became the first station in the city to completely convert to an all-HD news operation. Maintaining technical... |
Clear-Com's Encore
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY GRANT NEUHOLD
Following an EF-5 tornado in 2007 that destroyed most of Greensburg and parts of Kiowa County, residents were left without the means to relay important...
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Blackmagic Design's ATEM 1 M/EFeb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY BOB ZELIN Matchpoint Studios contracted me to build a new production system for the 2011 Presidency 5 Republican National Convention in Orlando, FL. The production... |
Haivision's HyperStream
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY PETER FORMAN
The trend toward multiscreen content delivery is having a profound influence on the way people access, view and use media fueled by the explosion of smartphones,...
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SGL's FlashNetFeb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY HOWARD TWINE The term disaster recovery is synonymous with the IT industry. It means the continuity of business processes following a catastrophic failure through... |
Video storage technology
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY JOHN LUFF
John Watkinson spoke at a SMPTE conference in New York a number of years ago. The conference featured many papers on the topic Computers and Television:...
NEW PRODUCTS
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM
VoliconObserver Enterprise 6.0 Video content logging and monitoring system has been enhanced with the same transport-stream logging capability as the...
Departments
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Are Americans quitting TV?Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, Brad Dick EDITORIAL DIRECTOR If Americans stopped watching television, we'd all be in a heap of trouble. So, when I spy a headline predicting a video apocalypse, I follow up and dig... |
OTT drives broadband improvements
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, DAVID AUSTERBERRY, EDITOR
The quantity of video being delivered through broadband connections, rather than cable, satellite or OTA, is mushrooming as more television sets gain...
Marginalization
Feb 1, 2012 12:00 PM, BY ANTHONY R. GARGANO
Countries, and the robustness of their economies, rise and fall on the basis of fiscal policies. All too often, those policies are dictated by the latest...
