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| | Today's Top Stories - 12.03.14 | | Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor | | | | Quote of the Day: "Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody." ~ Mark Twain | On this Day: In 2009, GE announced the deal for Comcast to take 51 percent of NBC Universal
| Broadcasters Extoll BAS Transition Benefits The transition of the Broadcast Auxiliary Service, now several years completed, could be viewed by many who it affected as an enormous visit from Santa Claus. Non-Volatile Memory Grows in Popularity ~ by Karl Paulsen Whether baked from silicon hardware or made fluidly agile with software codecs, video servers have become stable, mature and mainstream necessities for media capture, distribution and play-to-air for the broadcast industry. Even though professional broadcast video server manufacturers continue to refine and retune their mission-critical playout applications, we've seen only minor changes in the fundamentals of their platforms or architectures over the past three to five years. NRB: Chuck Norris to Speak, Receive Chairman's Award at NRB 2015 Chuck Norris is scheduled to speak on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, at the closing session of the NRB 2015 International Christian Media Convention in Nashville. In addition, Norris will be receiving the NRB Chairman's Award. | | Follow #GVExpo on Twitter for Live News From the Government Video Expo, today and tomorrow at the Washington Convention Center.
| | | News & Technology | | | Industry Roundup | | | TV Technology White Papers | | "The HTTP-Live-Streaming Success Guide" from Encoding.com examines HLS adaptive bitrate technology, HLS encoding parameters and a comparison of HLS platforms. | | "Delivering Online Video to the Broadcast Quality Generation" from Limelight Networks explores the broadcast-quality generation and how their expectations impact the way you need to deliver video. | | "Today's Reality for Moving Large Content Files" from Signiant examines the major trends driving the need for large and fast file transfer, ad hoc delivery methods and the benefits of SaaS. | | "To Simplify Video Delivery, Integrate the Workflow" from Limelight Networks addressed how to instantaneously deliver high-quality video worldwide to every screen. | | "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." | | "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. | | "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. | | "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 | |