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TV Technology News
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News features from the Television Industry.
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NBC Clears HD Hurdle for Beijing
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Peacock network takes on its biggest TV broadcast ever
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by Susan Ashworth, 7.23.2008
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Before a single Chinese pasi gong has sounded on the opening ceremonies on August 8, the 2008 Summer Olympic Games is already proving to be groundbreaking television.
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NBC Pursues Mass Streaming Initiative
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NBC has devised a well-rounded game plan devoted to covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics via non-broadcast means
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by Susan Ashworth, 7.23.2008
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Viewers can get access to on-demand video clips, and receive programming via their mobile devices.
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A Big Job for BOB
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For the two weeks of the Olympics, the IBC is the world’s biggest broadcaster
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by Susan Ashworth, 7.23.2008
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Running round the clock through the Olympics, the IBC will serve as the home for studios and production facilities for BOB, as well as rights-holding broadcasters.
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SIGGRAPH Celebrates 35 Years
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Annual confab serves as crossroads for art, science and technology
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by Scott Lehane, 7.23.2008
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The show, which is expected to draw some 30,000 professionals from across the computer graphics, animation, gaming and Web design industries, strikes a unique balance between academic pursuits and the commercial interests of exhibitors.
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A New Day at the Weather Channel
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Cable network unveils new hi-def facility
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by Claudia Kienzle, 7.09.2008
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One year and $60 million dollars after the official groundbreaking ceremony, The Weather Channel’s state-of-the-art HD facility set a new benchmark for hi-def weather programming 26 years after it pioneered the first 24x7 weather cable network in 1982.
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Airing Classics in HD Creates Challenges
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It’s not just ‘put ’em up and play ’em’ anymore
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by James E. O'Neal, 7.09.2008
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Aside from the obvious scratches and gate weave problems associated from older footage, one of the biggest concerns in readying film for repurposing is keeping the colors true.
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Changing the BAS Transition Game Plan
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FCC proposes dropping ‘Top 30 Markets’ rule and other requirements
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by Robin Berger, 7.09.2008
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The FCC is soliciting comments on a timetable and market-by-market approach for introducing the newly defined takeover and new operational requirements to facilitate the entry of MSS operators into the 2 GHz band.
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My Return to OTA
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A broadcast engineer goes ‘back to the future’
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by Dane Ericksen, 7.09.2008
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After almost 20 years of cable TV, I decided that it was finally time to return to over the air.
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Wimbledon in HD Crosses the Pond
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NBC carrying BBC’s hi-def feed of tennis’ premier event
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by Susan Ashworth, 6.25.2008
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Marking the 40-year anniversary of working with the BBC on Wimbledon, this year NBC will pick up high-definition coverage of the action on Centre Court and Court 1, and will also showcase upconverted standard-definition coverage of the remaining matches.
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Beyond the Box
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CE manufacturers to hide upgradeable middleware inside sets
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by John Merli, 6.25.2008
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Earlier this month Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, ADB, Digeo and Intel all formally signed a comprehensive agreement with America’s six largest cable firms, including Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Charter, Bright House and Cablevision to develop technology compliant with CableLab’s tru2way technology that could eventually lead to the demise of the cable set top box.
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Fox News Goes Tapeless
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Network’s news and business channels install end-to-end digital workflow
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by Craig Johnston, 6.25.2008
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While the network could have chosen to go tapeless in a piecemeal manner as other networks had done, it decided to go tapeless end-to-end.
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Disks Still Drive Video Storage
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Solid-state flash memory broadcast servers on the horizon
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by Ken Freed, 6.25.2008
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Broadcasters wanting the most cutting-edge solutions for digital video storage can consider emerging solid state “flash” memory systems for professional use, but spinning disk drives and digital tape remain the most cost-effective solutions for most operations today.
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Mobile DTV 101
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OMVC test results: It works great
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by Doug Lung, 6.11.2008
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During the last few years, exhibit space at the NAB Show devoted to TV transmitters has shrunk. While this might appear to be an indication that terrestrial TV is dying, the packed technical sessions focusing on ATSC mobile-handheld TV and the capacity crowd at this year’s Open Mobile Video Coalition’s “Mobile TV: Opportunity at 100 MPH” breakfast showed it may be too soon to write-off over-the-air TV.
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AFD Coming Soon: Is TV Ready?
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Broadcasters see light at the end of the postage stamp
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by John Rice, 6.11.2008
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AFD is a means by which any TV program is “flagged” with information instructing an encoder or TV set on how to frame the image.
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CBS News Rolls Out New HD Room
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More feeds, more information bring new power to broadcast center
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by Mary C. Gruszka, 6.11.2008
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The new control room was designed to take in many more simultaneous feeds than before, accepting feeds arriving on fiber as data circuits or via satellite.
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SCTE Tackles Transition Anxiety
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Interactive ads, new business models highlight this year’s Cable-Tec Expo
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by Gary Arlen, 6.11.2008
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The DTV transition is a “high anxiety topic” that keeps cable engineers “up at night,” according to John Clark, president of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers.
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Wilmington Goes First
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North Carolina test market ready to switch to the future
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by Sanjay Talwani, 5.28.2008
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They see themselves less as guinea pigs and more as pioneers taking a giant leap into the digital future at noon on Sept. 8.
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InfoComm, NXTcomm Pair Up in Vegas
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Co-located shows to cover A/V industry end to end
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by Gordon Robinson, 5.28.2008
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Located side-by-side in the Las Vegas Convention Center, the joint appearance will let delegates discover the latest in A/V technology at InfoComm 08, then see how this content can be distributed via IP-based distribution at NXTcomm08.
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Harris Opens Interoperability Lab
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Facility aims for new products and smooth running for installed base
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by Scott Lehane, 5.28.2008
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The lab will be used to test new versions of software from Harris and to help the company develop an interoperability guide for customers.
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Whenever, Wherever, Whatever
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Pay-TV providers gain traction with video on demand
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by Robin Berger, 5.28.2008
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Fleshed out VOD services, portable VOD players and more efficient compression rates are all on the docket for rollout over the next 12 months.
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