'Beagle' gives viewers HD view of historic Darwin voyage
Netherlands-based VPRO captured the nine-month voyage with five Camera Corps Q-Ball robotic minicam systems....
'Martin Lawrence Presents' shoots new season with P2 HD Varicams
To shoot 30 comics performing more than four days at the Chicago Theatre, Camera Support president Gary Taillon relied on 10 Panasonic AJ-HPX3700 P2 HD VariCams....
Wireless HD video-enabled shipments to climb to 13 million by 2014, says In-Stat
Before device manufacturers fully adopt wireless HD technology “significant price and performance issues” must be resolved...
NASA’s HD channel long time in coming, but well worth wait, says Grubbs
While the space agency has documented launches and other activities in HD for years, it just began offering an HD channel to the public last month — an endeavor that’s been well received, says Rodney Grubbs, chairman, NASA DTV Working Group....
Gearhouse Broadcast uses LYNX Technik yellowbriks for World Cup production
The yellobrik CDH 1811 SDI-to-HDMI converters were used as monitoring solutions to convert SDI signals to HDMI for driving 23in and 46in HDMI displays....
Digital Vision, Automatic Duck announce toolset interoperability
The integration of the Nucoda color grading system with Automatic Duck’s export plug-in for Final Cut Pro provides a highly efficient workflow from editorial to delivery....
Sonnet Technologies introduces USB 3.0 adapter cards
A pair of new cards from the company supports SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0), which offers an up to 10X increase in data transfer speed over Hi-Speed USB 2.0....
Kane Computer updates transcoder software, unveils network transcoder
New features in Version 2.9 software for the Pixel Xtream New Media Transcoder 2 include pass-through of EIA 708 closed captions and Dolby audio and insertion of open-captions/subtitles....
MPEG-4 AVC
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...
The compression question
Digital television transmission depends upon highly efficient codecs for its financial viability. Bandwidth is a significant cost, and making the best...
HD channel sharing
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...
RLTV transitions infrastructure in preparation for HDTVFrom production and post to storage and archiving, Retirement Living TV has put itself on a path for future HD demand
From production and post to storage and archiving, Retirement Living TV has put itself on a path for future HD demand...
Blu-ray player shipments to surpass 62.5 million next year
According to a new forecast from ABI Research, standalone Blu-ray players will occupy a spot in nearly 18 percent of North American TV households....
Teleports see revenue growth despite small decline in facility numbers, says WTA study
The World Teleport Association’s 2010 edition of its “Sizing the Teleport Market” study finds the number of commercial and broadcast teleports stands at about 1740....
RAI renovates infrastructure for full 3G/HD/SDI signal distribution
At the heart of the work is a large Utah Scientific routing system, which consists of a UTAH-400/XL video router integrated with an audio router....
