ESPN Deploys Drone to Cover Winter X-Games

Brought to you by: TV Technology Magazine serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets Today's Top Stories - 01.22.15 Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." ~ John Lehman On this Day: In 1997, the U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state. ESPN Deploys Drone to Cover Winter X-Games Extreme sports and drones are a natural match, but gaining approval to use the drones was a new experience for the sports network, according to Chris Calcinari, vice president, ESPN & ABC Sports remote production operations. "The whole process is so new, it almost too us up the last minute to get all the approvals signed off," he said. The games run from Thursday, Jan. 22-25 in Aspen Colo. Mass Storage Elements in IT-Class Media Servers ~ by Karl Paulsen Broadcast central equipment rooms now include from a couple dozen to well over a hundred computers and servers similar to those used in corporate or enterprise datacenters. Both the selection and configuration of these forms of servers depend on the services or activities they support. Such services now encompass databases, media processors, editorial and graphics, command, control and overall system management. Judge Hands Fox and Dish a Draw A federal judge has split the sheet on the spat between Fox and Dish over the satellite TV provider's Hopper time- and place-shifting technologies. Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California ruled that portions of Dish's technology violated its retransmission contract with Fox, while Dish won on most of the copyright tenets. 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 SPORTS: NBC Sports Super Bowl XLIX Remote Production Powered by Avid PEOPLE: Michael Petersen Joins Bitcentral as Vice President of Product Management INT'L: ATG Danmon Completes Ingest/Transcode/QC System for Arqiva BUSINESS: Forbidden to Close U.S. Office INT'L: Buddhist Television Network Uses Digigram Iqoya Link/LE eBOOK: Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure Industry Roundup Tony Verna, Inventor of TV Instant Replay, Dies (AP/ESPN) ETSI Publishes RadioDNS as Technical Standard (Radio World) Discovery Will Bid for Premier League (Advanced Television) NAB, Sinclair Count Ways FCC Auction Methodology Is Wrong (B&C) Telstra Launches IP-Based Video Delivery Platform (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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