Making Sense of Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C February 22^nd 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 w…

UHD Post-Part 3 Meeting it in Post February 21^st 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?

UHD Post-Part 2 The Signal February 14^th 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.

Streaming While Staying Sustainable - Next-Gen Compression For OTT February 14^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

Over the past five years, the ways in which we choose to watch television have shifted dramatically. It wasn’t too long ago that live TV was the only option available to us. We had to make sure we were seated with the television on, at the time our favourite…

Identifying the Gaps in Your Facility’s Security Plan February 14^th 2018 - 10:00 AM

Protecting the security of media is sometimes an unresolved issue. The first step to securing valuable content is a thorough review to identify any gaps in a facility’s security plan. Then, implement industry best practices and security layers to safeguard those assets.

IP and Software-based Broadcasting Infrastructures: Fact vs. Fiction February 12^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

IP’s suitability for live broadcasting is no longer debatable. It’s been proven in a variety of real-world global deployments over the past several years. Even so, there’s lingering skepticism around IP and a surprising lack of understanding.

Broadcast For IT - Part 5 - PAL Line and Frame Relationships February 9^th 2018 - 09:00 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 the last article we looked at the incredibly complex relationship between lines and…

UHD Post-Creating UHD February 6^th 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.

Robust Storage is Key to Empowering Media Workflows February 1^st 2018 - 01:00 PM

The transformation of the media and entertainment workflow from discrete, server-based silos to software-based environments is well underway. As the industry makes this shift, media companies find that placing a scale-out storage solution at the heart of the IP workflow yields the additional benefits of improved flexibility and cost savings.

Loudspeaker Technology Part 14: Cables - Behind the Myths and Magic January 30^th 2018 - 11:00 AM

John Watkinson puts on his snake-oil-proof clothing and looks at speaker cables. Finally, some clarity behind the myths and magic that surround technical aspects of speaker interconnections.