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Do you realize that mysterious computer RAID freezes, crashed applications and dog-slow or aborted offloads can be caused by bad cables? Apple’s Thunderbolt technology is good, but when it comes to the connectors, beware.
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Nearly 40 years ago, camera operators needed a safe way to obtain high-camera-angle shots. At the time, the only solution was a quality camera crane available through a single rental house, and that one was not for sale. Egripment took on the challenge and developed the now well-known Tulip Crane, which received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. More innovative products followed.
IP video over Wi-Fi provided a solid new signal transport solution at a fraction of most wireless link costs. Wi-Fi was easy. The challenge was finding available devices to convert camera HDMI into IP for Wi-Fi transport, and decoders to convert IP back to HDMI for the production switcher.
Amimon makes the case of UAV HD video capture in sports broadcasting.
In the province of broadcasting, live sports have recently come to occupy a unique place in entertainment: they’re one of the few types of broadcasts that viewers still primarily watch live and in real time. Not only do sports broadcasts often make use of the latest and greatest technologies to keep viewers fully engaged and coming back for more, they have also added music and entertainment elements to further escalate viewers’ expectations.
Anyone who says engineering live field production is a breeze isn’t serious.
While it is easy to mount multiple wireless GoPro cameras around an event area.The real issue becomes how to accurately switch between them. Fortunately, there now is a solution.
Perhaps no equipment category will be more negatively affected by the upcoming FCC spectrum auction of U.S. airwaves than wireless microphones. For manufacturers of such wireless products, which have relied on a certain spectrum band to operate effectively for years, the impending channel changes have caused a slump in business, as concerned customers are not buying for fear of their systems becoming obsolete.
It is inevitable, that once content becomes separate from the carrier, a transition that has already taken place, data networks will replace baseband.With the transition to digital essentially complete, we now get to reap the benefits, and havoc, that media freed of any physical carrier brings with it.
