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14 2001 |
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Industry News:
Broadcast Engineering: RespondTV
to Team With Developers to Advance iTV Capabilities
Broadcast Engineering: Sony Offers Developer Program for Interactive Digital Cable Platform
Broadcast Engineering: Avid Expands Trilligent Turnkey Streaming Media Systems
Broadcast Engineering: AMD Introduces AMD Athlon 4
BE Radio: 2001 NAB Engineering Achievement Awards
BE Radio: Second Satellite Launch for XM
DTV Professional: Streaming21 Passes Chunghwa’s VOD and IP Broadcasting Tests
DTV Professional: Snell & Wilcox to Offer Flexible Financing Through Wells Fargo
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quality: Ensuring equipment lives up to its promise
By T.K. Wong
Three forces are driving the changeover to digital transmission in the
entertainment industry today: the Federal Communication Commission’s
intention to mandate digital television broadcasting in the near future;
advances in digital technology itself -- including lighting controls,
cameras and post-production equipment; and the hype about the quality
of HDTV. more
HDTV - Data Multiplexing
By Michael Robin
This month's article describes the manner in which various HDTV formats, including the exclusively North American 1280x720, are organized to achieve a common serial bit rate, as described on the most recent version of the ever changing SMPTE Standard 292M, Bit-Serial Digital Interface for High Definition Television Systems. I would tentatively call this approach the common serial bit rate (CSBR). more
AgileVision’s
AGV-1000 system solution
By Larry Bloomfield
AgileVision, a Sarnoff Corporation spin-off, offers a solution that will
maintain network QoS pictures while permitting local content manipulation
in the compressed digital domain, eliminating the need for decode/re-encode
and the associated picture degradation. more
Sachs Warns SCTE:
FCC Regs Threaten Emerging iTV Market
In his keynote address to the SCTE Expo 2001 in Orlando,
Florida National Cable & Telecommunications Association President & CEO
Robert Sachs said calls to regulate nascent interactive television services,
which have yet to be defined, would have the unintended consequence of
discouraging investment and slowing their introduction. more
Engineering
101 By John Caracciolo
As consolidation comes to a close, radio general managers are faced with increasing the profit margin of the station. Because of high cash flow multiples paid for acquisitions, owners will seek double-digit revenue increases, and the consolidation benefits of eliminating overlapping expenses, to achieve required returns to their radio assets. Increased returns can be realized by increasing revenue or decreasing expenses. Today’s general manager needs to make tough budgetary decisions that will affect the future of the facility. more
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