Lawsuits Drive FCC Incentive Auction Delay

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets Today's Top Stories - 10.27.14 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower On this Day: In 1980, the ARPANET, the early version of the Internet, went down for four hours in the first major network disruption. Lawsuits Drive FCC Incentive Auction Delay The FCC quietly announced it would delay the spectrum incentive auction to early 2016. The revelation came, not from an official announcement from the agency, but in a blog post by Incentive Auction Task Force Chairman Gary Epstein on Friday. DPP Is Ready to Roll The DPP has unveiled its new standard, which dictates the common file format, structure and wrapper of any file-based programming delivered to a U.K. broadcaster. Creating Different Concepts Of Reality Through Editing Editors rejoice. Every year the Creative Arts Awards given out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences heralds the greatest achievement in our craft. When the 2014 ceremony awarded the Emmy for "Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Miniseries Or A Movie," it was not only a great triumph for winner Yan Miles; it was also the fulfillment of a promise for me. News & Technology SPORTS: MSG Network Launches New Look 4KTV: MuxLab Introduces 3G-and 6G-SDI Extenders With 4K Over UTP POWER: BHV Easy-DC Brings Power to Powerless VIEW: Transvideo 5-inch OLED Monitor Has H.264 Recording eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup Amazon Whips Out TV Stick Against Google's Chromecast (Variety) FCC Imagines 10 Gb/s 5G Mobile Service Using 24+ GHz (CommLawBlog) Copyright Expert: 'Good riddance' to Aereo (Advanced Television) Roku Could File for IPO Soon, Raise as Much as $150 Million (GigaOm) FCC Fines Carriers $10 million for Storing Customer Data in the Open (engadget) TV Technology White Papers "Playout in the Cloud," from Imagine Communications highlights "an entirely new range of opportunities for media companies to evolve their operations, transform and transport content free of geographic or other historical channel boundaries, extend and expand their brands." "Gaining Competitive Advantage from Switching and Extension," from ThinkLogical addresses changes in the post-production ecosphere and outlines best practices for the design of a future-proof, fiber-optic KVM signal management infrastructure. "The Move to IP-Based Broadcast Infrastructure and the Impact of Object-Based Audio," from Linear Acoustic addresses how to select and deploy equipment that interoperates with multiple manufacturers as well as being sufficiently reliable to meet multiple requirements. "Analyzing 4K Video Quality," from Video Clarity, examines how, as new 4K systems and products reach the market, the importance of video quality testing and evaluation will grow. "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.   ©2014 NewBay Media, LLC

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