What Tom Said: The Year in TV Technology

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets This Week's Top Stories - 01.31.14 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste." ~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe On this Day: In 2005, SBC bought AT&T for $16 billion and renamed itself "AT&T" after the merger. What Tom Said: The Year in TV Technology The past year won't go down as a particularly momentous one in the history of television technology, but a number of developments helped to clarify where our industry is going and how we'll get there. Fox Sports Preps for Super Bowl XLVIII It will start with an on-field, glass enclosed pre-game show set that lowers down before splitting in half against the wall… L.A. TV Stations, Wireless Lobby, Test Channel-Sharing CTIA, KLCS and KJLA announced a channel-sharing pilot project. Bonded Cellular: Getting the Best Shots Cellular live-shot systems have become all the rage in the television news world. Gear for the Journalist on the Go The run and gun style has its own particular needs, and vendors are constantly reinventing and improving what news folk carry into the field. News and Information for Millennials Plus TouchVision is a fledgling video news and information service that has no anchors or reporters. News & Technology BUSINESS: Fujinon Introduces Financing Program for Cabrio Zooms ARCHIVE: T3Media Chooses SAMMA to Digitize U.S. Armed Forces' Visual History INT'L: yes Launches Multiscreen TV Service With Viaccess-Orca's Compass COMMS: Montreux Jazz Venues Rely on Riedel MediorNet USER REPORT: Canon's XA25 Professional HD Camcorder Industry Roundup ESPN's Internet Rollout Tests Television Cash Cow (The Wall Street Journal) NPR Labs Studies Streaming Loudness (Radio World) Profile: Aereo's Chet Kanojia is Bringing Live TV to the Cloud (IEEE Spectrum) NBCU, Comcast Offer Targeted Advertising (B&C) The Future of Personal Entertainment, In Your Face (MIT's Technology Review) TV Technology White Papers "Understanding the ROI of Media Asset Management Systems," from Avid explores how much time and money a MAM system can save a business. "Selecting Next-Generation Video Servers," from Rohde and Schwarz examines the rapid pace of technology development and the incorporation of information technology into broadcast and the broadcast operating environment. "Hybrid Software as a Service," from Signiant discusses how businesses of all sizes are capitalizing on new modes of computing and software delivery—including software as a service and hybrid SaaS—that let them achieve a new level of results with less technology investment. "Beyond CALM," from Linear Acoustic offers a comprehensive, beginning-to-end approach to measuring and controlling loudness. "Efficiency is the Key Factor When Choosing a High-Power Broadcast Transmitter," from Rohde and Schwarz discusses the pros and cons of energy-conserving transmitter technologies.   ©2014 NewBay Media, LLC

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