Taking Seven into the future
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Up and running in all markets, Seven is currently doing about 12,000 switches a day out of Melbourne...
San Jose's NBC11 and Telemundo 48 go all-digital
The station needed the ability to handle the large number of live microwave, satellite and helicopter feeds that an area as large and geographically diverse as the Bay Area required...
CBC/Radio-Canada selects Inscriber's Inca AutoCG
The Inca AutoCG system offers a central graphics playout system that provides the combined
functionality of a still store, CG and clip player...
Format conversion
Increasingly, production personnel expect that any format can be converted to any other...
HDTV lens design: Management of MTF
Understanding key differences in SD and HD lenses can improve your images...
Professional video and film file formats
MXF, when combined with Descriptive Metadata Scheme 1 (DMS-1) is a powerful enabling technology...
Network NEWSROOM TECHNOLOGY
Winner: Sahara TV by Leitch Sahara TV wanted to improve its competitiveness of its Hindi entertainment channel, located near New Delhi. The plan entailed...
Streamlining format conversion
Broadcasters are finding they are still burdened with inefficient media conversion chores...
NEW STUDIO TECHNOLOGY HD
Winner: Turner Studios by AZCAR Turner Studios decided to upgrade its facility in order to improve their ability to produce in HD. In addition to editorial,...
Will 2005 be the year of HDTV worldwide?
The number of countries outlining plans for HDTV services is growing...
Building IT systems
If you can build a broadcast facility, you can build an IT system to work with it...
Gamma correction
In this month's Transition to Digital, Michael Robin discusses the nonlinear relationship between a pixel's value and its displayed intensity on a color TV monitor ...
HDTV lenses, MTF and picture sharpness
Find out why the modulation transfer function is the best predictor of an HDTV lens' performance...
Digital Vision helps Cablevision launch HDVOD
Managing channel bandwidth is key to a successful HD business...
HD production
John Luff gives insight into how he designs HD studios. This tutorial answers questions such as: What is needed to build an HD studio? Can the equipment be both HD and SD? Or, is specialized HD-only processing preferred ...
Northern Virgina Community College
Follow along as this community college transitioned its production from ¾-inch U-Matic videotape to a SAN-based system using magnetic and optical discs...
Product Highlights
FLYWHEEL UPS Active Power CleanSource 65- to 4000kVA systems protect broadcast networks, transmitters and microwave uplinks from power disturbances; stored...
Manufacturers take the long-term view
As a former broadcast engineer, I love new technology. Even so, I don't always have to have the latest and greatest new gadget either. On a personal level,...
SPECIAL REPORT: High definition
With competition heating up, stations are going digital in a big way. After years of complacency marked by stations begrudgingly installing digital transmitters...
DTV marketplace
As always, Broadcast Engineering is here to guide you through the maze of products and new technologies that will be displayed at NAB this year. The products...
Come visit the DTV Marketplace
It's that time of year again time for broadcasters worldwide to con verge on Las Vegas to browse the latest offerings from industry vendors. As always,...
New Products
Anchor Audio's UHF-6400, plus other new products....
Active Power's Clean Source UPS
Crowbar circuits designed to protect sensitive IOTs from high-voltage events can place extraordinary demands on UPS systems. A flywheel UPS, vs. one powered by batteries, could be the answer to handling these loads....
Discreet's smoke 6.0
Broadway Video is a New York-based independent entertainment company. It encompasses all aspects of development, production and distribution. At the heart...
Discreet's smoke 6.0
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The unlink/relink tool in the software is invaluable for recapturing media at different resolutions....
