IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 8 - Caching The Results August 11^th 2025 - 09:30 AM

Storing monitoring outcomes in temporary cache containers separates the observation and diagnostic processes so they can run independently of the centralised marshalling and reporting process.

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 4 - SSH Public Keys June 17^th 2025 - 09:30 AM

Installing public SSH keys created on your workstation in a server will authenticate you without needing a password. This streamlines the SSH interaction and avoids the need to use stored and visible passwords in your scripts.

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 3 - Monitoring Your Remote Systems June 3^rd 2025 - 09:30 AM

Monitoring what is happening in a remote system depends on being able to ask for something to be checked and having the results reported back to you. There are many ways to do this. This article looks at some simple examples.

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 1 - The Command Line Interface April 28^th 2025 - 09:30 AM

Being faced with an IP and file-based broadcast environment can be daunting if you are not already an experienced Information Technology systems administrator. This series of articles will help you acquire the skills one-by-one to monitor and diagnose problems from the UNIX command line. Then you can build more sophisticated…

BEITC At NAB 2025: Conference Sessions Preview - Part 2 March 14^th 2025 - 09:00 AM

Once again in 2025 The Broadcast Bridge is proud to be the sole media partner for the BEIT Conference Sessions at NAB. They are not free, but the conference sessions are a unique opportunity to engage with very high quality in-person technical learning. Here is the second part of our summary…

BEITC At NAB 2025: Conference Sessions Preview - Part 1 March 7^th 2025 - 12:45 PM

Once again in 2025 The Broadcast Bridge is proud to be the sole media partner for the BEIT Conference Sessions at NAB. They are not free, but the conference sessions are a unique opportunity to engage with very high quality in-person technical learning. Here is the first part of our summary…

The Ultimate Compression Technology? February 28^th 2025 - 09:00 AM

Our resident provocateur Dave Shapton speculates on the nature of compression and its potential future evolutionary path.

The Resolution Revolution December 6^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

We can now capture video in much higher resolutions than we can transmit, distribute and display. But should we?

Great Things Happen When We Learn To Work Together October 22^nd 2024 - 09:00 AM

Why doesn’t everything “just work together”? And how much better would it be if it did? This is an in-depth look at the issues around why production and broadcast systems typically don’t work together and how we can change that. If we do, there are untold benefits.

Brazil Adopts ATSC 3.0 For NextGen TV Physical Layer October 9^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The decision by Brazil’s SBTVD Forum to recommend ATSC 3.0 as the physical layer of its TV 3.0 standard after field testing is a particular blow to Japan’s ISDB-T, because that was the incumbent digital terrestrial platform in the country. China’s DTMB and 5G Broadcast were dismissed at the lab…