Broadcast Industry News:

Broadcast Engineering: ATSC & NIST To Co-sponsor Symposium On DTV Software

Broadcast Engineering: Adobe Certifies 14 Video Capture Cards for Adobe Premiere 6.0

Broadcast Engineering: Spruce Releases Personal, Professional DVD Authoring Solutions

Broadcast Engineering: IBM Announces 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium 4-based IntelliStations

BE Radio: WAVES Ltd., and CMBE, Inc. in Processing Partnership

DTV Professional: New Study Reveals One in Four Large Companies Now Using Streaming Media

DTV Professional: FOX Digital Purchases JVC's High Definition D-9 HD

DTV Professional: nDSP Announces Digitally Enhanced TV NV320 Video Processor

The Last Byte - Accelerated aging
By Skip Pizzi
Recently, while helping my son excavate the archeological site known as his room, I unearthed an old magazine. Its cover carried a date of September 2000, providing a handy identifier for the age of the particular strata we were working on at the time. Saved from the trouble of Carbon-14 dating the artifact, we celebrated by taking a break from our work. I picked up the magazine and quickly flipped through it, and I encountered an even more interesting discovery. more

Digital Standards - Defining 1920x1080 categories
By Michael Robin
Because the ATSC committee could not agree on supporting a single scanning format, North America is faced with a choice of 18 formats if we choose a 60Hz-related frame rate, or 36 formats if we take into consideration the legacy NTSC-related 59.94Hz frame rate. The ATSC document does not describe analog, digital and other signal characteristics that led to a flurry of standard developing activities in the SMPTE to fill the vacuum. The activity is still merrily going on as existing standards are updated and new standards are developed and issued. more

Digital Television Transition
Presentation to the FCC by Roy Stewart
The DTV transition is a massive undertaking, involving virtually every sector of the television industry. It requires a complete re-tooling of our video distribution infrastructure - from cameras to studios to transmission towers. It requires consumer electronics firms to develop and build new products that can receive and decipher the new technology. It requires content producers to develop new ways of creating content and new ways of protecting content in a world in which perfect copies can be made with the click of a button. And, perhaps most daunting, it requires television viewers to embrace the changes. more

Contest Winners!

We're Looking for WWUG Champions!
We are working on on adding new leaders to the WWUG's host panel to help champion our forums. If you know of someone who'd be a great addition to the WWUG team -- or if you yourself would like to join our team -- please contact us. webmaster@digitalmedianet.com

We are looking for experts in the following areas:
Adobe Illustrator
Apple Final Cut Pro
Boris-FX
Cinema 4D
Cleaner
Commotion
Discreet edit*
Impulse Illusion
Quark Xpress
Ulead MediaStudio Pro
Ultimatte

Newsletter Sponsor