ADAM Systems' ADAM-1000
Broadcasters need faster, cheaper and more effective ways of creating, repurposing and handling valuable digital rich media content, also called digital assets. Learn how the ADAM-1000 addresses this challenge....
DK-Audio's moving logo system
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TDC Tele Denmark approached DK-Audio with a request to develop a test card and sync generator that could incorporate a moving version of its logo. By incorporating a moving logo, the network operator can now detect delays that might affect lip sync....
Court TV's new NOC
When Court TV was launched July 1, 1991, its original location was not built with the intention of becoming a broadcast facility. Twelve years and nearly 80 million viewers later, it was time to upgrade the entire operation, converting to digital operations and increasing the functionality of the asset management system....
CMOS image sensors: Making HDTV cameras affordable
The same technology that powers today’s computers might permit image sensors that eclipse the CCD....
Audio follows multiformat video
Be it HD or SD, live sport, long-form drama or DVD mastering, the demand for high-quality audio to accompany today's pristine images is here. As a result, production facilities are finding their clients demand as much from the audio booths as the video edit suite....
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....
Automated media indexing
There exists a latent need to automate the capture of metadata as well as subsequent search and retrieval processes in audio visual archives. The CIMWOS system supports both independent and combined searches of images and speech....
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....
Digital audio workstations
Many manufacturers are supporting formats for third-party file and plug-in support....
Centralized graphics
Centralized graphics are finding increased applications as broadcasters seek new ways to reduce the cost of doing business. Station groups to link stations in several markets have mainly used them, but with the relaxation of ownership rules, they may be utilized within markets as well....
720x483p SDTV format
The latest revision of SMPTE Stan-dard 293M, defines the SDTV 720x483p image sampling system....
SONET
This month, we take a closer look at SONET and some of the telephone-industry nomenclature behind the technology....
Audio consoles
The move toward smaller mixing boards has clearly reached the on-air market....
The cost of HD
Find out the past, present and future cost and performance of HD equipment....
DTV peripheral equipment
Only two items for DTV origination would be outside this scope — the transmitter and the encoder....
Using video effects
The Farm Media Group chose the SOFTIMAGE|XSI program to produce an entire promo due to its character-animation capabilities and its integrated compositing system....
Newsroom automation
News stories must be able to go from raw to finished in minutes, sometimes seconds. To do this requires a new paradigm....
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....
Chyron goes SOLO
Chyron’s SOLO is a mobile graphics and character generation solution that combines portable hardware and software with a familiar user interface....
Battery basics
The typical ENG/EFP crew carries a wide array of battery-operated devices. Find out which battery is best for each application....
KMEX-TV opts for Avid
KMEX-TV upgraded its newsroom operation with systems from Avid – resulting in an integrated workflow....
Interactive TV
The rapid uptake of digital TV now needs to be encouraged and promoted — by both the government, so that analog can be turned off on schedule and its spectrum auctioned to the highest bidder, and by the broadcasters promoting the benefits as a way to increase audience share....
Audio processing: Taking control of TV
The larger the dynamic range of the material, the worse the results of a peak-alignment technique....
Production switchers
It is clearly valuable to many stations and production studios to have hardware that can adapt to a 525 shoot today and a 1080 shoot tomorrow....
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....
