CNBC's new network broadcast operations
Building a new facility from the ground up provided the network with a unique opportunity to rethink traditional operations models and incorporate future-proof technology....
Camera support gear
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In these days of Internet streaming, a steady, controlled shot ensures smaller file sizes and faster download times....
HDV transforms sitcom budgets
A JVC JY-HD10U camera can be had for less than $1000 and it works well with a smaller crew, fewer specialized technicians and comparable savings on body mounts....
Advances in news technology
Follow the important advances in the technology that broadcasters use in the field and in the newsroom....
CMOS image sensors: Making HDTV cameras affordable
The same technology that powers today’s computers might permit image sensors that eclipse the CCD....
DTV over digital cable: Reaching a larger audience
Sooner or later, you’ll want digital cable to carry your programming. Find out what issues are involved, from cable headend to the customer’s STB....
HD sports: A whole new ballgame
High-action sports can produce some of the most demanding scenes that an MPEG-2 encoder will ever encounter....
Wireless ENG/EFP cameras
Static multipath is tricky enough, but when an attempt is made to move the transmitter, dynamic multipath problems cause such wireless links to be tenuous....
Newsroom automation
News stories must be able to go from raw to finished in minutes, sometimes seconds. To do this requires a new paradigm....
DTV peripheral equipment
Only two items for DTV origination would be outside this scope — the transmitter and the encoder....
The 1280×720/60 HDTV format
There is no ITU counterpart of this standard because at present, ITU does not consider it as an HDTV format....
Fujinon's HDTV cine-style lenses
New Fujinon HDTV Cine-Style lenses overcome the hurdles to 24P HD production by addressing previous breathing, ramping, and gear-marking issues....
DNF's shotbox at New York's Shea Stadium
The special transitions and replay effects brought the impact of the big-screen show closer to a television-broadcast look and feel....
Telex and NMT connect at Super Bowl XXXVII
The logistics required to pull off the broadcast production for the big event were equally far-reaching....
Fiber optic systems
In the 80s and 90s, as fiber optic technology became more cost-effective, several manufacturers developed analog fiber optic modulators for video transmission. The development of more cost-effective hardware is now spurring a surging interest in fiber equipment for many uses....
Customers focus in on HD lenses
Even within the broadcast market, where stations have traditionally purchased the cheapest lenses possible for their ENG crews, the trend, according to these companies, is to buy the highest quality optics they can afford....
Digital audio consoles for mobile broadcasting
Mobile broadcast companies are rapidly upgrading to digital audio consoles. Find out what features and options best suit your application....
Cine-style lenses for video cameras
The 24p format was developed in order to provide a video image that resembles a film picture in many respects, including the key aspect of 24fps operation....
New features for STBs and receivers
Due to the convergence of technologies for reception at the home, the DVB branched out from its traditional role and looked at the commercial requirements for future interactive receivers....
Link Research's LinkXP wireless TV camera system
Wireless cameras will bring broadcasters new ways to capture fast-moving sports and news....
Sony introduces new wireless microphones for ENG, Broadcast TV
Sony Electronics has announced a new generation of application-specific UHF wireless microphone systems that target broadcast news and field production....
Broadcast and production audio consoles
This year, the U.S. government heightened pressure on the broadcast industry to get DTV online or pay the consequences by instituting a “graduated system...
Surround-audio production and facility design
As broadcasters make progress in their FCC-mandated transition to DTV, adding AC-3 audio to program streams is proving to be one of the more daunting challenges....
Field Report: Lobo & Associates shoots Saudi Arabia with Panasonic
Lobo & Associates, a Santa Barbara, CA-based producer of large-format films, television productions and high-end corporate films, has just finished shooting a corporate high-definition video project for Saudi Aramco....
Cameras
The video camera has come a long way in the past two years....
