Magazine Contents
August 2008
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Editorial
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| Comfort food, comfort technology |
What's your favorite comfort food? For a Midwesterner, it might be chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes. For a Bostonian, comfort food might be clam...
Brod Dick EDITORIAL DIRECTOR |
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| Count those pixels |
Following the recent launch of a 3G phone, some critics derided the included camera as being “only 2 megapixels.” Now this happens to be...
DAVID AUSTERBERRY, EDITOR Send comments to: editor@broadcastengineeringworld.com |
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EOM
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| Back to the future |
What's a ‘broadcast guy’ doing at a cable show?” Spending several days at the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) annual expo...
BY ANTHONY R. GARGANO |
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FCC Update
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| FCC fine-tunes DTV transition rules |
With the major DTV rulemaking proceedings out of the way, the commission has been working on resolving remaining DTV transition issues as they occur....
BY HARRY C. MARTIN |
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Transition to Digital
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| Understanding muxing |
Multiplexing is a technique for carrying multiple channels of information within a common signal. Although usually thought of as a digital process, the...
BY ALDO CUGNINI |
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Computers & Networks
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| Computer architectures |
Frequently, I have talked in this column about separating the broadcast core computer networks from business networks and the Internet. In the real world,...
BY BRAD GILMER |
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Transmission & Distribution
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| Seamless ad insertion |
Over the past several years, digital program insertion (DPI) has enabled seamless commercial ad insertion into an MPEG stream. Service providers realize...
BY YANIV BEN-SHUSHAN |
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Production Clips
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| TV mics |
Despite the wondrous range of new gizmos and gadgets currently available to bend, shape, twist and color sound signals, there is still nothing that can...
BY BENNETT LILES |
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Field Reports
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| Optoma's BigVizion |
WCMH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbus, OH, was looking for a high-tech way to showcase large-format video and graphics on its new set. The station wanted...
BY MICHAEL P. HILL |
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| Sachtler‘s SOOM HiPod |
I was commissioned by the production company Yeti Film of Cologne, Germany, to shoot test footage during a research trip to Portugal. The project involved...
BY BÖRRES WEIFFENBACH |
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Technology in Transition
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| Racks and accessories |
It would be easy to assume that the least important technology in a broadcast facility is the piece that only serves to keep equipment from falling to...
BY JOHN LUFF |
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General
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| Asset management |
As we head off for another IBC, I remain impressed at the burgeoning number of companies offering solutions to better manage content and media. The convergence...
BY RUSSELL GRUTE |
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| Being there |
In 1932, David Sarnoff, then the president of RCA, wrote an article titled “Where Television Stands Today” for the April issue of Modern...
BY CRAIG BIRKMAIER |
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| Defining asset management |
While technologies have advanced dramatically since the TV business started 60 years ago, the fundamental workflows have not significantly changed. The...
BY ERIC DUFOSSÉ |
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| Editing close to air |
Many people associate the word editing with post production. The majority of programs and all commercials go through the traditional sequence of shot-logging,...
DAVID AUSTERBERRY |
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| EEG's iCap |
In 2007, EEG introduced iCap, an IP-based, closed-captioning software system that runs on the company's HD480 hardware encoder. The system solves numerous...
BY PHILIP MCLAUGHLIN |
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| FEEDBACK |
Transition from monochrome to NTSC transmission Dear editor: I just read the interview with Tim Carroll of Linear Acoustic in the July 8 edition of the...
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| FOX Business Network |
In the realm of major facility builds, none was as challenging or as complex as the launch of the new FOX Business Network. Working within the confines...
BY MICHAEL GROTTICELLI |
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| IBC 2008It&s all on display |
This year, IBC continues to explore the expansion of television services to other media channels — notably Web, IPTV and mobile. No broadcaster...
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| Monitor and control |
The ability to monitor and archive as-aired content has long been an important function for broadcasters, but it has taken on even more urgent and critical...
BY JOHN HOOKER |
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| Neutrik's OpticalCon |
In live broadcast settings, military spec connectors and cables were once the only options for heavy traffic areas. While these products offered supreme...
BY MARK BOYADJIAN |
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| NEW PRODUCTS |
StreamZ LiveDigital Rapids Live streaming media encoder for applications from live IPTV channels and webcasting to mobile video; now offers encoding...
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| OmniTek's XR |
The advent of digital cinema has significantly impacted those involved in post production of images for theatre presentation. The specifications put...
BY MIKE HODSON |
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| The challenges of storing video |
The largest Fortune 1000 companies have grown their storage infrastructures to hundreds of terabytes, with the largest companies having multiple petabytes....
BY ARUN TANEJA |
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| Twister HD PaintStation |
When it comes to broadcast paint and still graphic creation tools, there are certainly several choices available. Most of these applications feature...
BY DAVID-RAY WORTHINGTON |
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