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In February, AP began to digitize its back catalog, and it will have 32,000 hours of footage and film stock digitized by mid-2013....More

LiveU will showcase its compact, lightweight LU40-S uplink device for broadcast media at IBC2012, incorporating LiveU’s proprietary internal antenna for additional resiliency in areas of poor cellular coverage....More

Back in 1988, the first work began on video compression standards that would ultimately result in MPEG. The Motion Picture Experts Group, in cooperation with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), created multiple standards for video compression, now known as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/AVC. MPEG was devised as a means of compressing broadband video into a small bit stream that could fit in extremely narrow broadcast or satellite transmission channels....More

Sporting events happen everywhere, all the time. Covering them can be an enormous task for broadcasters who are challenged with allocating resources to handle major international sporting events....More

Fast, efficient and agile. Those three words were surely part of virtually every athlete’s mantra at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, July 27 – Aug. 12. They could also be used to describe the strategy of broadcasters and production companies around the world — including NBC Olympics in the U.S. — for capturing, sharing, transmitting and streaming live and prerecorded HD (and some 3-D) images and getting them in front of viewers wherever they may be....More

Game Creek Video will outfit three new HD trucks due out later this year with Sony HDC-2500 HD cameras....More

The truck is designed as a general-purpose unit but will primarily be used for sports production....More

Being a small sports production company based in central Illinois, we were faced with several challenges when we were asked to televise and produce DVDs...More

Outside broadcasts are important to the TV industry and viewers alike. This is illustrated by how much of the schedule is taken up with live or recorded...More

The challenges of building digital satellite newsgathering (DSNG) vehicles have generally remained the same over the years....More