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Broadcast Audio System Design: Part 1 – Overview July 29th 2022 - 09:00 AM

We begin our series on things to consider when designing broadcast audio systems with the pivotal role audio plays in production and the key challenges audio presents.

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LL35 is a 4-floor suburban house overlooking the Oslo fjord turned into reality show gaming venue.

NRK’s LL35 Gaming Reality TV Experiment July 28th 2022 - 09:00 AM

LL35 is a “If you build it, they will come” attempt to attract the young gaming community to live streaming and TV content.

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Transforms: Part 7 - Standards Conversion July 26th 2022 - 09:00 AM

The transform is a useful device that has some interesting characteristics. On one side of a transform we might have the spatial domain, for example data describing an image in terms of brightness as a function of position. On the other side we might have coefficients describing the spatial frequencies and phases of that image data.

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Electricity: Part 5 - Wind Turbines July 21st 2022 - 09:30 AM

Wind turbines are increasing in number because they produce electricity with reasonable environmental impact. But how green are they really?

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Camera Lenses Part 4: Aperture Effect and Digital Filters July 13th 2022 - 09:40 AM

In this tutorial on the science of lenses (Part 4), John Watkinson examines lens resolution and discusses how to determine the lens performance needed so as to get the maximum performance from your camera sensor.

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Independent news production company KNN completes about 160 stories per month for its TV station clients.

Independent News Production Teams Capture Breaking News Coverage With URSA Broadcast G2 Cameras July 11th 2022 - 10:00 AM

A large warehouse fire comes across the police scanner and a news camera operator and an audio guy jump in their car, specially outfitted with a laptop for editing (mounted to the dashboard) and a tripod that folds out of the trunk, and race to get the story. It’s a scenario that plays out hundreds of times each day at TV stations across the country.

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Using Cinema Cameras For Live Sports Broadcast July 7th 2022 - 09:30 AM

We discuss the business case and technology challenges of using cinema cameras in live sports broadcast with Mark Chiolis of Mobile TV Group.

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Information: Part 4 - Data Rates July 7th 2022 - 09:30 AM

In an increasingly digital world, it may be useful to look at the amount of data needed to represent various media. Note that the amount of data is being considered; the amount of information will always be somewhat less than that.

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