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August 2011

This month’s cover story provides an examination of high-frequency pathological signal transmission issues in today’s high-bandwidth equipment. Learn about the blocking capacitor’s effect on the pathological signal and you can control this effect.

Also in this issue, Broadcast Engineering explores dynamic storage tiering, MPEG-4-AVC, microphone design and IP routing.

Features

  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Automation

    Broadcasting and the production of content are complex enough. With 24/7 operations and 100- percent uptime requirements, any changes to a broadcast operation...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Understanding blocking capacitor effects

    Why should we do AC-coupling on SDI and, how does AC-coupling degrade our SDI signal? In past experiences, many engineers asked me this simple question,...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    IBC2011 Preview: Making the RIGHT connections

    AUTOMATED CONTENT REPURPOSING AND MULTIDISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Grass Valley MediaFUSE 2.0 Enables TV broadcasters and multiplatform content providers to automatically...More

Beyond the Headlines

  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Dynamic storage tiering

    Data-intense broadcast projects can require petabytes of data with several hundred terabytes often actively in production at any given time. The need...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    TV spectrum auctions

    In June, the Senate Commerce Committee approved S.911, a bipartisan bill that represents the most detailed effort yet to make TV band spectrum auctions...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Multiscreen delivery

    For broadcasters and other content providers, the dropping price of bandwidth combined with the proliferation of video-capable devices PCs, smartphones,...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Video servers

    How much performance can be squeezed from a 1RU device when its primary purpose is to ingest and play back video clips? Perhaps surprisingly, it's an...More

Digital Handbook

  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    MPEG-4 AVC systems

    MPEG-4 AVC offers many tools for coding video and higher coding efficiency than MPEG-2. The growing number of AVC applications is facilitated by a broad...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Programming routers 1

    This month's article will introduce network router programming. If you have not worked with IT infrastructure, you may be surprised at the number of options...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Mic design

    You see them in music videos. You see them on album art and in classic photos of famous musicians recording in their studios. If you're lucky, you might...More

System Integration

  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    IP for signal management

    With the wider adoption of IT-based infrastructures for playout facilities, it's natural to consider the scope for moving to IP-based signal management...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Retooling

    She remains an icon, one of the most recognized celebrities on the planet, and her decision to pull the plug on her wildly popular television show sent...More

New Products & Reviews

  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Dolby's PRM-4200

    While the death of the CRT is welcome news for the environment, professionals who have relied on the CRT for critical work like color correction are less...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    The LMH0387

    Traditionally, SDI ports on video equipment have been fixed as either inputs or outputs. This has led to hardware designers choosing architectures with...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    RTW's TouchMonitor

    The entire pro audio industry, particularly those working in broadcast, is currently undergoing a fast paradigm shift from traditional peak metering of...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Spectra Logic's T950

    As one of the most watched PBS affiliates in the nation, at Minnesota-based Twin Cities Public Television (tpt), we were grappling with the storage and...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    CNN standardizes across all of its platforms

    As CNN brings content to air on CNN, CNN International, CNN en Espanol and HLN, and to the Internet on CNN.com, our goal is to leverage our substantial...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Video compression

    Reality in our industry is all in the presentation of approximations of reality. The essence of video and audio compression is the selective discarding...More

Departments

  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Connecting with viewers

    The path from the TV station to a viewer's television set used to be simple and direct: transmit antenna to receive antenna. Today, there are a variety...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Matching temporal and spatial resolution

    Recently I got a second chance to see the Sony test movie which was first shown at NAB. Shot and projected in 4K, the pictures are stunning. As I watched...More
  • Aug. 15, 2011
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    Broadcast Engineering

    Virtual trade shows

    An electrical problem has shut down Amtrak and closed the northeast corridor tracks into New York. Those were the words I heard one morning at 5 a.m....More
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