September 1, 2007

Features

Digital Audio 101

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, by Aldo Cugnin

Dig deeper to understand digital signal conversion for audio....

Revolution in real time

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY PETTER OLE JAKOBSEN

Technological advancements in graphics creation software and processing hardware have impacted the volume and quality of graphics that broadcasters can...

Digital: The Journey Forward at BroadcastAsia2007

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY DAVID AUSTERBERRY

With Singapore being a global media center hosting offices of Ascent Media, CNBC, HBO and Technicolor the city-state is a good place to hold a show for...

Service Oriented Architecture

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM

SOA is the new way to design a facility’s workflow....

Maximize your HD camera’s performance

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Learn how to achieve an overall high image performance of an HD lens-camera system....

special reports

IPTV: Reducing total cost of ownership

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Now that IPTV is a reality, the industry must address total cost of ownership....

IPTV: The telco catch-22?

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY MICHAEL DARGUE, BOB HOUSE AND ED NAEF

If you build it, will they come? Telcos question whether IPTV will ever be a profitable service....

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

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Close to the edge

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY CRAIG BIRKMAIER

To be successful, broadcasters must make their services available on portable devices....

Raising the standard

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY TIM SHEPPARD

The MPEG-4 family of audio and video coding standards and related technology has been a huge enabler in driving forward the growth of audio and video...

technology in action

Monitor walls

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY KEVIN JACKSON

With increasing numbers of TV channels being processed and served on a growing number of delivery platforms, modern monitoring environments are changing...

fcc update

DTV Surprise

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 AM, BY HARRY C. MARTIN

Moving to your analog channel? Avoid coverage losses....

DIGITAL HANDBOOK

transition to digital

Managing lip sync

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY ALDO CUGNINI

Technological progress often seems to occur haltingly: two steps forward, one step back. With the advent of digital processing, video processing began...

production clips

HD newsgathering

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY SPRING SUPTIC

HD newsgathering. Avoiding the issue? Don't know quite how to plan for this last piece of your otherwise HD broadcasts? Well, neither do the experts....

computers & networks

Video over IP

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Brad Gilmer

Video over Internet Protocol (IP) affects just about all video-related industries — broadcast, post, news and live sports....

SYSTEM INTEGRATION

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Digital dancing

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, MIKE CLARK

The recent prime-time show Ballando con Le Stelle (Dancing with the Stars) demanded a tricky live dance by the technical production team. To accomplish...

transmission & distribution

Weather systems

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY SUSAN ANDERSON

Here’s a look at new weather technology and how you can use it to help protect your viewers....

NEW PRODUCTS & REVIEWS

applied technology

SoundField's DSF-2

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY PIETER SCHILLEBEECKX

For years, broadcasters treated audio as a simple stereo add-on to what they considered the real point of their existence the moving images they transmitted....

Small Tree's Edge-Core

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY STEVE MODICA

Whether you are into broadcasting, post-production, video capture or editing, you are probably making greater demands on your switching hardware than...

field reports

The FS-4 recorder

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY RICHARD MONTALVO

I discovered Focus Enhancements' FS-4 Direct-to-Edit (DTE) recorder while facing near-impossible production deadlines as the production manager for isportsTV,...

Grass Valley's C2IP

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY MICHAEL GROTTICELLI

WFAA has turned the traditional concept of on the scene reporting on its ear in north Texas with a new, street-level studio set against the glitzy backdrop...

technology in transition

Centralized operations

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY JOHN LUFF

All broadcasters are aware that the era of ringing the cash register several times an hour has largely ended. The fear, of course, is that changing economics...

Centralized operations

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, BY JOHN LUFF

All broadcasters are aware that the era of ringing the cash register several times an hour has largely ended. The fear, of course, is that changing economics...

new products

ARG ElectroDesign's Inverse Multiplexer MKII and more

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, ENG Update e-newsletter

ARG ElectroDesign's Inverse Multiplexer MKII and more......

NEW PRODUCTS

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Inverse Multiplexer MKIIARG ElectroDesign Multiplexer transmits video over several low-cost telcos; maintains transmission quality by adding Reed-Solomon...

DEPARTMENTS

editoral

Competition is ugly

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Not surprisingly, cable’s mouthpiece, NCTA vice president of communications Brian Dietz, chimed in that à la carte would merely reduce viewers’ options while increasing their costs....

The future is all around you

Sep 1, 2007 12:00 PM, DAVID AUSTERBERRY, EDITOR

September is IBC time. It was not long ago that the show title changed from the International Broadcasting Convention to just plain IBC in order to reflect...

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