August 1, 2010

Features

Managing storage in file-based workflows

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Paul Turner

A media company's decision to implement a tapeless, file-based workflow marks the start of significant work for the facility's engineering department....

Virtualized media data centers

Sep 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Luc Andries

Media companies have embraced IP-based architectures as the standard solution for file-based media production. This evolution enables today's media environments...

IBC 2010

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM

IBC has four streams running through this year's conference: Technology Advancements, Content Creation & Innovation, The Business of Broadcasting and...

Beyond the Headlines

The compression question

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Are Olafsen

Digital television transmission depends upon highly efficient codecs for its financial viability. Bandwidth is a significant cost, and making the best...

STELA passed

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Harry C. Martin

The long-delayed extension of the law covering direct broadcast satellite retransmission of television stations became effective at the end of May. While...

3D graphics

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Boromy Ung

It's no longer necessary to have a dedicated channel branding box to play out sophisticated graphics, such as stereoscopic 3D and full-frame, animated...

Software replacing hardware

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Andrew Warman

Just as editing systems migrated from hardware-based, linear affairs built around tape decks and custom hardware and control surfaces, the modern video...

Digital Handbook

MPEG-4 AVC

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Aldo Cugnini

With the growing interest in repurposing video to multiple media and diverse means of display, including mobile TV systems, it is useful to consider how...

System administration

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Brad Gilmer

One of the challenges facing system administrators in the post and broadcast space is that they almost always start out doing other things. In my case,...

News storage

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Andrew Warman

The advent of video servers changed the way we handle spots, news and long-form material. While this might be viewed as a revolutionary step for broadcast,...

Managing digital assets

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Matthew Gonnering

OK, so you finally have your logos, images, message documents and case studies all organized in your new digital asset management (DAM) system, and all...

Systems Integration

Newsmax builds next-generation Web TV studio

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Michael Grotticelli

Multimedia company Newsmax Media, based in West Palm Beach, FL, started out as a general news website and a monthly newsletter about 11 years ago. Since...

MPEG monitoring

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Ralph Bachofen

What matters most to TV viewers is the ability to watch their choice of shows or movies without a hitch. Monitoring is a critical element of broadcast...

New Products & Reviews

Embrionix's 3Gb/s SDI SFP coaxial modules

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Renaud Lavoie

Production studios and broadcast infrastructures are in transition to 3Gb/s SDI, creating increasing demand for interfaces that support long cable distance...

Mosaic DAM

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Steve Russell

We are now several years into the digital revolution in content production. Yet, tape is still a fact of life for many, and for others, the overhead of...

Radiall's BNC connectors

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Charles Populaire, Mansour Mbaye and Fabien Bourgeas

With the introduction of high-definition video signals operating at data rates up to 1.485Gb/s for 1080i and 2.97Gb/s for 1080p, a new generation of BNC...

Interra Systems' Baton

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Krishna Uppuluri

The migration of media content from tape-based analog to file-based digital media creates opportunities to improve operational efficiencies across the...

File-based workflows

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By John Luff

Change is good in life. It is what encourages new thoughts and approaches to many things. The broadcast industry has seen three distinct eras in technology...

New Products

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM

EvertzHD2014 High-performance, multipath 1RU video conversion, frame synchronization and decoder platform integrates four independent paths of video processing;...

Departments

Mobile TV: broadcast's best-kept secret

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, Brad Dick Editorial Director

A recent story on the Broadcast Engineering website reviewed Qualcomm's potential decision to sell its video delivery business, FLO TV. Qualcomm's chairman...

IBC2010 to the rescue

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, David Austerberry, Editor

Our industry's international shows are a good time to take stock of the state of the media and entertainment sector. One bellwether of the broadcast community...

HD channel sharing

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM

In a recent article, Technical paper finds HD channel sharing to be viable in achieving FCC spectrum goals (available online at http://ow.ly/2hrPs), Broadcast...

DSLR video production

Aug 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Anthony R. Gargano

In the February 2010 edition of Broadcast Engineering, I wrote a column about nontraditional tools for use in broadcast and production applications. One...

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