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July 1, 2008

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High-quality encoding Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Stephane Blondin Media companies today must work with assets in the file-based domain if they want to take advantage of the latest in IT-based technology. High-quality...

Building media-centric video facilities Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By David Watson Launched in 1997 as Channel 5, the UK's fifth and final analog terrestrial broadcaster was rebranded as Five in 2002. It now serves five regions with...

Beyond the Headlines

The new news makers Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY Craig Birkmaier Over the years, I have spent a great deal of time making news. Lest anyone get the mistaken impression that typing my name into Google is going to provide...

Get mobile Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Tim Sheppard Many broadcasters have viewed the development of mobile TV with a combination of interest and caution. Early deployments, large-scale trials and industry...

Delivering quality real-time video over IP Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Stephane Billat With telco entering in the quadruple play of video, Internet, phone and cell phone, it seems that video over IP is part of a video future. The requirements...

Digital Handbook

Maintaining lip sync Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Aldo Cugnini The problem of lip sync, or A/V synchronization, continues to daunt the most sophisticated video operators. While various technical working groups continue...

Software design Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Brad Gilmer The area of software design is a shifting landscape, and smart computer people are always coming up with better ways to do things. A significant shift...

MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Steve Mullen The introduction of recording equipment employing H.264, with Fidelity Range Extensions (FRExt), has created a viable alternative to equipment using long-GOP...

System Integration

WTVX-TV goes remote Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY Tom Norman, CPBE At the end of 2007, WTVX-TV in West Palm Beach, FL, and systems integrator Burst teamed up to design and build a remotely operated and completely unattended...

Comcast Media Center opens a new content distribution operations center Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY Bill Calton Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC) has moved its expanding occasional satellite operations into a new, state-of-the-art content distribution operations...

Web and mobile delivery Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dom Robinson YouTube gave Internet video the profile it had so long deserved. No longer was the commentary about how Internet video was slow to start, small or jittery,...

Signals and formats Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Phil Cianci Digital broadcast systems are increasingly dependent on signal and format conversion. Interoperability has plagued many installations and stalled system...

NRK rolls out file-based production infrastructure Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dick Hobbs Norwegian state broadcaster NRK is rolling out an all-encompassing asset management system as part of its cross-media developments. Implemented by systems...

New Products & Reviews

Optibase's IPTV solution Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Erez Dafnai When a major American TV network maxed out its cable broadcasting bandwidth, few solutions came to mind. Adding to the existing analog system was out...

NVerzion's ATP Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Daniel Bissett From a single television studio on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, Venture Technologies Group (VTG) operates four fully FCC-compliant TV stations in...

New storage options Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By John Luff Eons ago, when cameras had scanning electron beams and electronic recording of sound was in its infancy, television was essentially a live medium. The...

DK-Technologies' MSD600M++ Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY Andy Payne AND Bill Whiston Shortly before the BBC sold its Outside Broadcast division to SIS, the broadcaster upgraded its Calrec Sigma digital audio consoles onboard two of its...

Departments

A DTV service pack Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Brad Dick, Editorial Director I love the Apple commercial with four gray-suited guys who represent the Vista operating system. One says, Well, I'm pleased to say, I've been error-free...

3-D is stereo, so let's shoot it that way Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By David Austerbery, Editor Audiovisual media has evolved in steps since its inception a century ago. First, we had the phonograph and the silent movie. Next movies gained sound,...