TVT Power Rankings: Unique Drone Uses

TV TECHNOLOGY NEWSBYTES   Trouble seeing this email?       Serving the Broadcast, Production, Broadband, Satellite and Mobile Markets     THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES - 07.31.15     Deborah McAdams - Executive Editor   Quote of the Day: "Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you." ~ John Green On this Day: In 1971, Astronaut David Scott became the first person to drive a vehicle—this early Tesla prototype—on the moon.   TVT Power Rankings: Unique Drone Uses Volcanoes, love, guns, games and the Millennium Falcon. Vanishing Chat Provider Buys WorldNow for $45 Million Get that? A chat app maker has bought one of the biggest broadcast TV service vendors. Assessing Storage Management ~ by Karl Paulsen Not in a box. Not with a fox. Getting Ready for ATSC 3.0 ~ by Doug Lung Broadcasters in each market will have to share their bandwidth to make an ATSC 3.0 transition possible. New EAS Event Codes Proposed The National Weather Service asked the FCC to add high-wind and storm surge codes. Consumer Virtual Reality to Gross $21.8B by 2020, Tractica Predicts Virtual reality is about to explode on the market. Metaphorically speaking. NASCAR's Brickyard 400 Becomes NBCSN's Most-Watched Telecast A mesmerizing left-hand turn. Test Vendors Straddle the Worlds of SDI and IP Because they must. FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger AT&T-DirecTV must get fibered broadband to another 12.5 million customers. Transmitter Efficiency: A Q&A With Rich Redmond We wanted to take a harder look at the topic of transmitter efficiency. Technicolor Acquires Cisco STB Business The deal will make Paris-based Technicolor one of the world's largest providers of set-top boxes. FCC Drops Dynamic Reserve Pricing Auction Rule An FCC official acknowledged that the commission would drop dynamic reserve pricing. TVU, ArrowData Launch Drone-based ENG Service ArrowData is the first private company to receive an FAA waiver to operate drones for ENG. Video to Comprise 60 Percent of Online Data Usage by 2018 Gartner recommends communication service providers raising data caps to meet consumer needs. Registration Now Open for Government Video Expo & National Drone Show NewBay Media has opened registration for the 2015 Government Video Expo and National Drone Show scheduled for Dec. 1-3 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. more news »     NEWS & TECHNOLOGY     IBC2015: Rhode & Schwarz All About 4K at IBC EDU: SBE Publishes TV Master Control Operations Book SHOOT: Canon Unveils Low-Light, Multi-Purpose Camera PEG: PCTV Upgrades Tightrope Systems to Deliver Local Programming DISTRIBUTION: Perform Selects Broadstream's OASYS Automated Playout Platform   Industry Roundup     Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile (Slashdot) FilmOn Takes a Big Step Closer to Section 111 Eligibility (Comm Law Blog) How to Find the Right Size of TV (Audoholics) 4K, 8K and Wall Space (Multichannel News) Stanford Students Teach Robots to Play Ping-pong, Land a Drone (IEEE Spectrum)   TV Technology Resource Center White Papers     "Myth and Reality of Auto-Correction in File-based Workflows" from Interra Systems attempts to shed light on auto-QC tools. "Video Dropouts and the Challenges they Pose to Video Quality Assessment" from Interra Systems explores various kinds of video dropouts, the source of these errors, and the challenges encountered in detection of these errors. "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. "Controlling and Monitoring Studio Displays" from Orad describes the implementation of the Orad TD Control studio display in The Weather Channel's new Atlanta studio. TV Technology and Broadcast Engineering Publish IP Transition Study with Grass Valley The results indicated a strong current level of IP technology deployment and a trend toward increasing utilization.   News Expertise Opinions Equipment Show News Resources Subscribe   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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