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WTA Report Reveals Service Providers Adapting to Market and Tech Disruption March 13th 2018 - 11:00 AM

The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Teleport Opportunities 2018, a new research report surveying teleport executives on market opportunities and obstacles to growth, investment, hiring and technology plans.

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Getting Rid of Plosives in Your Audio March 8th 2018 - 10:00 AM

Since the beginning of broadcasting, announcers and narrators have spoken closely to microphones to boost the gravitas in their voices. They use proximity effect to sound richer, fuller and more intimate than they might naturally sound. But when they get too close, the result can be plosives. Here’s how to avoid them.

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Live Recording with a Laptop Computer March 6th 2018 - 10:00 AM

It is very tempting to take a laptop computer on location for live recording. It can work fine — until it doesn’t. Laptops, by their very nature, are more fragile and prone to failure than other recording devices. Be careful that you’re not the victim.

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The evolving world of data connectors make choosing interfaces more complex than ever.

Making Sense of Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C February 22nd 2018 - 01:50 PM

If you’re like me, making sense of evolving computer standards like Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C is confusing. These standards seem to change often and sometimes when plugging things in that ought to work, they don’t work at all. It’s all in the details. Here’s an overview of where we stand.

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The color grading suite at Light Iron in Hollywood uses a Sony BVM-X300 OLED HDR 4K professional reference monitor for grading.

UHD Post-Part 3 Meeting it in Post February 21st 2018 - 12:05 PM

If UHD is going to become a mainstream broadcast medium, we’ll need to be able to monitor, edit and review it. But can we?

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Setting up a color workspace using Adobe

UHD Post-Part 2 The Signal February 14th 2018 - 12:05 PM

With ATSC 3.0 poised to change the broadcast industry’s basic signal, we need to understand this signal is poised between HD and true 4K.

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Audio is becoming an IP-centric technology that offers many benefits. Image: Rob Wolifson, TCN audio supervisor at Nine Network in Sydney.

Audio Over IP - Why It Is Essential February 8th 2018 - 11:00 AM

The impact of IP on the design of broadcast equipment and infrastructures is profound. Many broadcasters are replacing existing analog, AES3, MADI and SDI ports with a new class of interface for connecting to standard IT switch infrastructure, together with new control mechanisms for connection management and device discovery. In the process, they’re embracing an emerging set of open standards for interoperable, vendor-neutral signal transport.

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The DaVinci Resolve suite at AlphaDogs

UHD Post-Creating UHD February 6th 2018 - 12:05 PM

AlphaDogs is one of the west coast’s premiere post houses, but even they find the prospect of creating UHD projects challenging.

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