November 1, 2008
Features
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TV production spacesNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Antonio Argibay, AIA The television production space, commonly referred to as the studio, is still the primary location for content capture in the television industry. The... |
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IBC Pick HitsNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM Each year at NAB and IBC, Broadcast Engineering assembles a panel of working professionals to act as judges for the most prestigious technical awards... |
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Routing systemsNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Phil Cianci With the wide variety of audio and video formats in a digital broadcast facility, routing systems have evolved beyond their fundamental function: to allow... |
Beyond the Headlines
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Beyond HDNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Craig Birkmaier Does anyone out there still have a dot matrix printer? It seems they have gone the way of the horse-and-buggy and round tube TVs, a term that the consumer... |
News from the DTV front
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Harry C. Martin
While the final transition date has long been set at Feb. 17, 2009, some stations may want to terminate their analog operations before then. For stations...
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IPTV content delivery issuesNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Patrick Waddell There are very few markets in entertainment and media that can boast double-digit growth for 2008, but it looks certain that IPTV will be one of them.... |
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Monitoring IP streamsNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Richard Chernock Broadcasters and cable and IPTV providers have come to rely on IP transport of television content for one primary reason: It's cheap. IP-based infrastructures... |
Digital Handbook
MPEG's upgrade
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Aldo Cugnini
Although MPEG-2 continues to enjoy widespread deployment over broadcast and DVD media, MPEG-4 is rapidly catching up, thanks to advances in algorithms,...
File-based delivery
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Brad Gilmer
Five years ago, file-based content delivery was making inroads with broadcasters, but it was still a somewhat unusual way to deliver video. Now, file-based...
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Editing long-GOP videoNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Steve Mullen When HDV was introduced, editors quickly discovered that when they exported a production back to HDV tape, the process often took hours. Many saw long... |
System Integration
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KMBC-TV, KCWE-TV offer HD local news from new studiosNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jerry Agresti Sometimes an organization needs a nudge before it can make progress. That was the case with our stations, KMBC-TV and KCWE-TV, located in Kansas City,... |
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HP serves up the clear choice at the right priceNov 1, 2008 12:00 AM Content producers, looking to install industry-standard platforms that can handle the rigors of daily production while improving productivity... |
Maintaining QoS
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By David Glidden
Originally designed to be opportunistic rather than guaranteed data delivery channels, IP networks have been enhanced to deliver streaming or real-time...
Maintaining ATSC compliance
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By John Wilkie
With the dawn of digital-only TV broadcasting just a few months away, full-service broadcasters and digital transmission plants are finally drawing the...
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TV3 BarcelonaNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By David Austerberry Televisi de Catalunya operates the TV3 public TV channel in Barcelona, Catalonia, an autonomous community of Spain. The station airs a mix of news, entertainment,... |
New Products & Reviews
Time Warner's sound
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Ivan Larsen and Jeffery Riedmiller
Time Warner Cable currently serves more than 8.5 million digital video subscribers and provides an enormous amount of programming to its customers. As...
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Video encodersNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By John Luff There are few places in modern video technology where technical complexity is higher than in video encoders. First, the purpose is to wring out of a running... |
New Products
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM
X-BandGepco Audio cables feature wide frequency response, RF/EMI noise rejection and G-Flex jacket compound, which offers additional flaccidity and flex...
Departments
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Join the technology treadmillNov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By David Austerberry, Editor In the last few months, the European Parliament has been debating a common approach to reaping the benefits of an analog switchoff (ASO), otherwise known... |
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Answer the phone!Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Brad Dick, Editorial Director What will you be doing on the morning of Feb. 17, 2009? I'm guessing a lot of Broadcast Engineering readers will be answering viewer telephone calls.... |
What's in your TS?
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Anthony R. Gargano
For years, the mainstay tools of television engineers in stations and facilities all around the country have been the trusty waveform monitor and vectorscope....
Feedback, November 2008
Nov 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Flying the not-so-friendly skies In response to your October editorial, IBC was great, minus the travel, you hit it right on the mark. I have been flying...
