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Broadcast For IT - Part 7 - Color and Temperature March 27th 2018 - 08:00 AM

In this series of articles, we will explain broadcasting for IT engineers. Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and todays broadcast formats are heavily dependent on decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In this article we start to look at the human visual system and color temperature.

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AoIP Technology Helps Stations Expand Their Reach “On Location” March 16th 2018 - 11:00 AM

Amidst swirling competition and a need for new revenue, radio personalities have expanded their audiences and their reach by installing video cameras in their studios and broadcasting from remote sites related to their genre’s scope. This has been particularly true of sports talk radio shows, which use major sporting and entertainment events to draw their listeners in. They have also invested heavily in live remotes to attract attention.

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The ATSC 3.0 standard affords broadcasters new ways to address the issue of UHD/HD/SD delivery across diverse reception conditions.

ATSC 3.0 Offers New and Flexible OTA Delivery Options for Broadcasters March 15th 2018 - 11:00 AM

The broadcast industry is on the cusp of a new era with the launch of ATSC 3.0 This flexible platform supports multiple types of encoding, which can result in viewers always getting the best available signal over a variety of reception conditions.

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Broadcast For IT - Part 6 - Counting Time in 59.94 March 14th 2018 - 04:00 PM

In this series of articles, we will explain broadcasting for IT engineers. Television is an illusion, there are no moving pictures and todays broadcast formats are heavily dependent on decisions engineers made in the 1930’s and 1940’s. In this article we look at how to represent time in 59.94i frame systems such as those based on the American NTSC systems.

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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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MTVG is now using a number of recycled materials at its Englewood, Colo. headquarters to build its eco-friendly trucks.

Mobile TV Group Sees The Big Picture, And 4K HDR Is Only Part of It February 28th 2018 - 09:00 AM

In this age of environmental consciousness, many companies often claim to be “eco-friendly” and concerned about the future of our planet, but it winds up being marketing slogan and little more.

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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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