Quote of the Day: "If you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad." ~ Janina Gavankar
On this Day: In 1966, the BBC announced plans to broadcast in colour.
Big Shows Require Wireless Audio Stability As broadband device manufacturers continue to grow their positions in the market, the demand for wireless microphone systems that are fast and agile will escalate.
Advertising Crowns the Super Bowl Experience ~ by Jay Ankeney It's an "Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad," world out there, with fake Super Bowl commercials and others supposedly "banned" from the official broadcast, filling cyberspace and TV chat shows for weeks before the game. After the dust had settled they were all available on a skillion Web sites, and this year most featured darned good video quality.
Technology Revolutionizing the Post Industry High resolution, sound, color, frame rate, stereoscopic 3D, interaction, platforms for content consumption: these are the current tech trends identified by Michael Stein, head of technology at MPC...
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 are 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.