McAdams On: SMPTE

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets This Week's Top Stories - 11.07.14 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop." ~ P.J. O'Rourke On this Day: In 2000, Pets.com was put down. McAdams On: SMPTE Hollywood was recently overrun with unsung stars; non-celebrities whose contributions to 21st century communications are not fully appreciated. TV Spectrum Sellers Say FCC Model Shortchanges LPTVs The coalition representing TV stations interested in selling spectrum on the incentive auction are objecting to the signal-coverage methodology associated with the auction. EIBASS Warns of Globalstar TLPS Interference A group of engineers who actively rally for Broadcast Auxiliary Service spectrum say a proposed Wi-Fi service in the 2 GHz band would interfere with BAS. FCC's Spectrum Price List Has Many Licensees Doing The Math Broadcasters are looking at their balance sheets, now that the FCC has issued its "price list." Class A Told to 'Show Cause' or be Demoted to LPTV Status A Southern California Class A's been told to show cause why it should retain its status or be busted down to LPTV status. FCC Releases Real-time Component of Repacking Software The constraint generator software comes up with "pairwise" files that predict interference between stations. Imagine CEO Charlie Vogt on Buying OpenTV's Eclipse "We are accelerating the integration to give customers ability to do real-time ad insertion." Incentive Auction Objection Comments Due in a Week The rules of the upcoming incentive auction of TV spectrum have provoked 33 Petitions of Reconsideration. Comments on those petitions are due Nov. 12. RTDNA Needs Journo-Drone Stories The RTDNA is urging members to "send us examples of drone uses." Multiplatform TV Business Summit Set for NYC Television Week, Nov. 12-13 The Business of Multiplatform TV at NYC Television Week is a one-day summit that will drill down into the every diversifying way people are watching TV. News & Technology CLOUD: LiveU Launches its Cloud-Based Community Platform BUSINESS: Harmonic Buys Into Encoding.com OB: NEP's Screenworks Provides 'Massive' Display for NASCAR at Talladega PEOPLE: Joyce MacDonald Is CPB's First Journalism Vice President eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup The Beauty of the Direct-to-Video Movie (Pacific Standard) Auto Ad Dollars Going More Digital (Radio World) Five Questions About the Future of Drones With 3D Robotics' Colin Guinn (engadget) Comcast's X1 Suffers Another Outage (Multichannel News) FCC Looking to Put Paging Spectrum to Different Use (CommLawBlog) 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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