May 1, 2010

Features

Automating newsroom workflow

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Scott Matics

New technology, added delivery channels and the increasingly unpredictable viewing habits of consumers are forcing today's news staffs to make significant...

Building a file-based workflow

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Kirk Marple

While the process for building a file-based workflow is typically thought of as nonlinear, a series of steps should be followed in a linear manner to...

Budget Internet streaming

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Sid Guel

As broadcasters look for new ways to increase audience and revenue, sending video to mobile receivers looks attractive. Mobile device data traffic is...

How social media is redefining broadcasting

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Rob Van Den Dam

With the convergence of broadband, broadcasting and information technology, different networks now support all forms of communication and media, such...

Camera Developments

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Austerberry

Television cameras have added new features over the years at an orderly pace. Once CCD and CMOS sensors replaced tubes in video cameras, the developments...

BroadcastAsia2010

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By David Austerberry

The BroadcastAsia2010 exhibition and conference takes place 15-18 June in Singapore. As broadcasters start to look at investing again, the conversion...

File-Based Workflow

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

We are officially in a file-based world. That is not a shock; we have been moving that way for years. Now even cameras are spoken of as recording files,...

Beyond the Headlines

Channel in a box

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Peter Levy

The FCC mandate for the digital conversion was a costly and challenging endeavor for the broadcast industry. The conversion did, however, create valuable...

Retransmission consent

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

In the wake of the recent well-publicized disputes between cable companies in the New York area and the Fox and ABC TV stations there, the major cable...

Mobile TV is dead; long live mobile video

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Thierry Fautier

Just as with every year since 2006, 2010 is being touted as the year of mobile TV. On the face of it, this prediction makes sense. The adoption of handsets...

The evolution of MXF

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Neil Dunstan

The Material eXchange Format (MXF) was conceived as a wrapper for media content that allows flexibility in file formats. Its adoption as a file format...

Digital Handbook

Mobile video technology

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

With the ATSC standard for mobile DTV released last year, and the potential for a half-billion worldwide mobile TV subscribers by 2013 (according to ABI...

Network QoS

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

Increasingly, users have a requirement to interconnect professional video equipment via Internet Protocol (IP) over Ethernet. Many times it's because...

SAN connectivity

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Steve O'Donnell

A SAN is now a key component of most reasonably sized IT infrastructures, including those handling video production. Today's SAN technology has evolved...

Systems Integration

Food Network spices up production facilities

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

Like any good recipe that needs adjustements over the years to keep it fresh, the production and post facilities at Food Network in New York City have...

CTV at the Winter Olympics

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

To call the technical feat that CTV accomplished in covering, mostly live, this year's Winter Games impressive is an understatement. In building a 40,000sq-ft...

Managing IP networks

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Russell Brown

IP network management focuses on keeping the network up and running smoothly and comprises a number of aspects, including the initial design and layout...

New Products & Reviews

Stagetec's 3G audio embedder/de-embedder

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Rusty Waite

Walk into any TV production or broadcast facility today, and you're guaranteed to run across embedded audio. Whether for transmission, routing or archiving,...

Remote monitoring

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

A cable company says your signal is horrible and that is why it looks like a 1950s station when its customers tune in. What do you do? It is tempting...

Simple remote access

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Richard Kelley

As more and more broadcast facilities look for ways to reduce cost without compromising quality, DK-Technologies has been studying its own area of the...

GraniteSTOR abcSAN

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Steve Modica

In industries working with large files, storage is critical to maximizing workflow and productivity thus, the growth of storage technology over the past...

New Products

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM

Altera28nm FPGA FPGA features embedded HardCopy Blocks that leverage HardCopy ASIC capabilities to harden standard or logic-intensive functions such as...

Departments

The money trough

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

The stage is set for a seismic battle between the over-the-air (OTA) broadcast industry and the most powerful political animals in the world: a Congress...

The times they are a-changing

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

That old question of spectrum has come up again as the EBU recently released a viewpoint EU spectrum policy. Not unnaturally, it represents broadcasters'...

Feedback

May 1, 2010 12:00 PM

Universal cameras Dear John Luff: In the March 2010 edition, you claim that universal cameras can be constructed for different resolutions. You are overlooking...

Where's the disconnect?

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

Following a lengthy standardization process and comprehensive testing regimen, the long-awaited A/153, the ATSC's DTV standard for mobile television,...

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