Quote of the Day: "Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star." ~ Paul Dirac
On this Day: In 1962, the first satellite telephone and television relays were established with Echo 1.
Inside the NHL's Situation Room Whenever a goal is scored or a contentious scoring play occurs, the NHL Situation Room uses its in-house instant replay camera/server system to provide solid analysis fast. This analysis is immediately available to each game's referees and goal judge via dedicated communication lines—including wireless communication devices worn by the refs.
From Small Screen To Really Big Screen ~ by Jay Ankeney To deal with the needed "supersizing," IMAX has developed a proprietary process called DMR, involving a massive render farm outside of Toronto holding 2 petabytes of storage capacity.
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.
"High Speed Bridge to Cloud Storage" is a new ebook from Signiant that introduces Signiant Flight (previously known as SkyDrop), a SaaS solution for accelerated transfer of content to and from cloud storage.
"The HTTP-Live-Streaming Success Guide" from Encoding.com examines HLS adaptive bitrate technology, HLS encoding parameters and a comparison of HLS platforms.
"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.
"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.