Quote of the Day: "Outer space is no place for a person of breeding." ~ Lady Violet Bonham Carter
On this Day: In 1973, Martin Cooper, "farther of the cellphone," made the first cellphone call.
Archiving in Today's Digital Haystack There's more than one change happening in the archiving space. New technologies that weave asset management and storage are on the rise, as are archiving modules that scour content for metadata and cloud-based platforms.
NAB 2015 Storage & Recording Preview The options for storage and recording at the NAB Show are taking on ever more tasks: handling more channels, supporting more formats, outputting to more channels to ever more platforms. What's leading the way? Alongside HD, there's growing support for 4K, high-performance storage, long-term archiving, and that's not forgetting the growing ubiquity and success of cloud and content delivery networking.
NAB 2015 Signal Processing Preview Television signals have changed during the past few decades, but one thing remains constant—signals need to be adjusted, stabilized, changed in format, or otherwise "worked on." There has never been a dearth of equipment for doing this and the list seems to grow daily. All of the latest "sig proc" gear will be ready for inspection at the 2015 NAB Show.
Key Elements of ATSC 3.0 to be Demonstrated at NAB 2015 Demonstrations of key elements of the emerging ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard will be on display at this month's NAB Show, with a variety of exhibitors from all over the world planning to show how ATSC 3.0 can enhance future TV broadcasting.
"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.
"Guide to Virtualized Video Infrastructure" is an ebook from Harmonic that takes a closer look at how its virtualized video infrastructure technology is redefining the future of video production and delivery.