Quote of the Day: "People change and forget to tell each other!" ~ Lillian Hellman
On this Day: In 1995, Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle.
Super Bowl Scores Record Overnights and other numbers according to the Interwebs Nielsen is reporting that Sunday's Super Bowl scored a record overnight rating of 49.7, up 4 percent over last year's game The number represents the percentage of the 116 million U.S. TV households that tuned into the Patriots' 28-24 upending of Seattle's lead during most of the game.
Gray to Open Washington, D.C. News Bureau Gray Television has opened a news bureau in Washington, D.C. The move positions Gray for what it expects to be a record-breaking 2016 presidential election in terms of political revenue, exceeding the group's 2012 take of around $118 million.
Selecting the Server That's Right for You ~ by John Luff With the many options available for receiving, distributing and playing out video files, for both media and corporate A/V use, there's a lot to consider when choosing the right server for your specific application.
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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.