FCC Clarifies Auction Pricing, EOBC Disputes It

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets This Week's Top Stories - 12.22.14 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." ~ Laurence J. Peter On this Day: In 1882, Edward Johnson created the first electric Christmas tree lights. FCC Clarifies Auction Pricing, EOBC Disputes It Organizers of the 2016 TV spectrum incentive auction said a pricing discrepancy in official documents represented a floor and a potential goal, not a vacillation. In October, the Federal Communications Commission's auction team released the Greenhill Report, which predicted licenses could bring as much as $1.50 MHz/pop—a measure of how many people are covered by 1 MHz of spectrum. Two months later, the figure proffered in an official Public Notice was $1.25 MHz/pop. TabletTV Planning U.S. Launch on KOFY-TV TabletTV is now accepting pre-orders for TabletTV in the San Francisco Bay area. The service uses an off-air tuner module, which they call a "TPod", to receive over the air TV broadcasts, record it, and make it available to tablets or other devices via a Wi-Fi connection. TV Technology's 'Guide to Closed Captioning' TV Technology takes a look at several important deadlines as well as new solutions to ensure compliance with FCC rules and enhance closed captioning services. News & Technology EDITING: Sonnet Introduces New Optical Thunderbolt Cables INT'L: Imagine Communications Upgrades Egypt's Rotana TV to File-Based HD ENCODING: Matrox Monarch HD Now Offers Automatic Configuration Tools SPORTS: ChyronHego Drives Graphics for College of Charleston's Live Broadcasts eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup T-Mobile Will Let You Bank Your Unused Data Come January 2015 (engadget) The Transmitter on the Wall (Radio World) Reaction to Sony Hack is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' (Motherboard) Humans 2.0: Seeing Ourselves Anew in 'Algorithmic Cascades of Data' (Singularity Hub) U.K. Public Broadcasters' Content Investments Decline Rapidly as Retrans Fees Floated (Rapid TV News) TV Technology White Papers "Video Quality Testing for the IP and Internet Domains" from Video Clarity examines a new methodology for measuring video quality in the IP domain. "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." "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

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