BROADCAST ENGINEERING STAFF

SMPTEresponds Dear Mr. Dick, As President of the SMPTE, I'd like to respond to the letter from Paul McGoldrick published in the December 2000 issue of

MULTIFORMAT SAFE AREA GENERATOR Broadcast Video Systems DSA-100 SDI: generates and inserts all required safe action, safe title and center cross graticules

Media 100 Cleaner 5: now shipping; allows users to create streaming media content for the Web in four steps: capture, author, encode and publish; simplifies

e-Studio LIVE e-Studio 7000: new line of turnkey systems provides all the components necessary to create a Webcast; enable users to create live interactive

Editor: When the head of Chronicle Publishing asked me if digital reception would be better than analog reception, I responded that I thought it would

International Fiber Systems VT/VR 7400 series: single mode and multimode systems allow four independent video signals to be multiplexed and transmitted

TASCAM DA-98HR: offers high-resolution record and playback capabilities including eight tracks at 24-bit, 44.1kHz or 48kHz; four tracks at 24-bit, 88.2/96kHz;

Pinnacle Cinewave: now shipping; uncompressed SD video solution available for Apple's Power Mac G4; combines TARGA Cine engine with video authoring tools

TASCAM DM-24: small-format digital recording console with 24-bit digital converters and 96kHz sampling rates; offers full transport control, hierarchical

Rohde & Schwarz Netlink: provides for remote control and monitoring of broadcasting transmitters via Internet web browser and an SNMP-compatible network;

Cadex Electronics C7200: analyzes most battery chemistries, including Li-ion, Li-Polymer, NiMH, NiCd and SLA; each station of the two-station unit can

Vigits iCON: smallest production downconverter available on the market; can be mounted on the side of an HDCam or monitor; converts from HDTV to NTSC;

Radamec Shot Control Panel MkII: compatible with all robotic camera pan and tilt heads; includes touch-screen display to provide full shot and transition

FAST Multimedia Dual InTime Board: option now shipping; accelerates effects on silver. and purple. nonlinear editing systems; allows systems to be equipped

e-Studio LIVE e-Studio1000: compact addition to e-Studio family of live webcasting solutions; system includes e-Studio V2.0 software suite, Real Networks

Accom Affinity nonlinear editing system: dual RGB color correction and enhanced DveousFX options for Affinity now shipping; the RGB color correction adds

a look at the industry's next decade Uncertainty is as common a feature on the landscape of television broadcasting as are towers. If you think you have

Path 1 Network Technologies TrueCircuit: enables time-critical information to be carried over IP Ethernet with guaranteed QoS for both real-time and non-real-time

Alcorn McBride HD-Tap: converts program from DVB-ASI or DVB-LVDS to any desired ATS-compliant analog format; converts between U.S. and European frame

CBS does HD In what appeared to be an eleventh hour move, Panasonic stepped in to underwrite the HDTV broadcasts of the majority of CBS's primetime programming

COMPRESSION/MPEG TEST EQUIPMENT Acterna SyncCheck: now shipping; Windows-based software developed by Interra Digital Video Technologies; measures lip-sync

Pixel Power Collage 2 Stills: based on new Collage 2 architecture; features dual Power PC processors and multiple pixel processors for 30 billion operations

Adherent Data Analyzer: looks at transport streams and their content and displays the bit rate, repetition rates, structure, syntax and semantics of data

Minerva Networks iTVManager: software solution manages television services for delivery over broadband IP networks, allowing broadband network operators

SWITCHER Folsom Research ScreenPro: now shipping; seamless switching of composite, component, hi-res computer or s-video formats without the need for