Quote of the Day: "To good and true love, fear is forever fixed." ~ François Rabelais
On this Day: In 1935, the first polygraph was used.
NBC, EPC Team Up for Alpine Championships Athletes from more than 70 nations will descend on the Rocky Mountains for a two-week span to compete in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships starting Feb. 2a setup that is pushing the U.S. broadcaster NBC to give new thought to the difficulties of broadcasting in tight spaces.
Pro Audio Boards Continue to Evolve Demands placed on audio engineers who work in the television industry continue to escalate, and the vendors who serve their needs continue to refine their products.
Sony Boosts Stacked CMOS Production Yet Again Sony continues to push out more stacked CMOS sensors to meet the growing demand for smartphones and tablets. The electronics giant said it would invest a total of ¥105 billion (US$895 million) in its three CMOS plants.
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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.
"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.
"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.