Quote of the Day: "Quote me as saying I was misquoted." ~ Groucho Marx
On this Day: In 1977, the first Cray supercomputer is shippedto Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
AWARN: Designed for Next-gen Broadcasting AWARN has been developed as a bottleneck-free, standards-based approach that utilizes terrestrial broadcasting and would be able to deliver reliable and instantaneous distribution during an emergency. Through AWARN, Americans will be able to receive video emergency messages, even when the cellular network faces congestion or the electrical grid goes down.
Wheatstone: AES67 'Another Arrow in the Quiver' The AES established a working group in 2010, designated X-192, after recognizing that various incompatible audio networking schemes were already in existence. The eventual standard, AES67-2013 (published in September 2013), enables interoperable high-performance streaming audio-over-IP, or AoIP.
NewBay Media's Best of Show Awards Returns for 2015 NAB Show NewBay Media is bringing back the Best of Show Awards for the second consecutive year. The awards will recognize outstanding technologies exhibited at the 2015 NAB Show in April. Winners will be selected by a panel of editors and expert contributors for NewBay Media publications, including TV Technology, Digital Video, Video Edge, Radio, Radio World, ProSound News and Sound & Video Contractor.
"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.
"Using Cloud Playout to Simplify Your Disaster Recovery Plans" from Imagine Communications describes how using its Cloud Disaster Recovery system can provide private or public cloud-based disaster recovery for broadcast and video playout operations.
"The HTTP-Live-Streaming Success Guide" from Encoding.com examines HLS adaptive bitrate technology, HLS encoding parameters and a comparison of HLS platforms.
TV Technology's 'Guide to Closed Captioning' takes a look at several important deadlines as well as new solutions to ensure compliance with FCC rules and enhance closed captioning services.