BROADCAST ENGINEERING STAFF

Optical recording Most everyone is familiar with the compact disc. Whether your encounter has been as a source for music, a storage device for data, programs

The latest addition to Crosscreek Television Productions' fleet is Voyager VI, a 53-foot, 79,000-pound truck outfitted for 601 digital production. Commissioned

Wegener Communications PowerPlay 1000: allows audio to be sent to affiliate stations, remote audio sites or satellator for storage and later retrieval;

Miranda Technology Kaleido-QC/DVStation interface: Miranda's multi-windowing visual monitoring solution incorporates Pixelmetrix's DVStation monitoring

Thomson Broadcast Sportcam: new version of the 1707 digital triax camera; 12-bit, with 16:9 aspect ratio; offers flexibility for a quick transition from

Discreet Logic character studio 3: now shipping; allows for large-scale crowd character animation, behavioral animation, accelerated physique performance

Shure Inc KSM44: multipattern condenser microphone features externally biased large dual diaphragms in a side-address design; offers extended frequency

Crystal Vision DADA208/DADA208N/DADA208D: new additions to audio interface range offer either two stereo feeds in and up to four outputs of each channel,

Solid State Logic Aysis Air/Aysis Air Mobile: feature new analog and digital I/O features for the broadcast consoles, including RIO Grande I/O and MADI

Snell & Wilcox Premier: range provides up-, down- and cross-conversion; HD5200 upconverter offers 3D spatio-temporal interpolation in a 1RU box; the HD2200

PSP Digital PVS-2HD: switcher control interface supports all common standard- and high-definition formats; compact, single M/E switcher with two to eight

Harris Open Database Connectivity (ODBC): industry standard supported by vendors including Microsoft, Access, Oracle and Informix; provides fast, direct

Panasonic Broadcast AJ-MK2700: now available; option for the D-5 HD VTRs; set of plug-in sub-boards for AJ-HD2000 and AJ-HD2700 VTRs; enable metadata

Avid DS HD: offers integrated picture and audio editing, compositing and animation; features paint, titling and project management tools; applications

Vertigo Multimedia Producer Playout Manager: allows users to create playlists of graphics and animations built using Discreet Logic's frost superscript

Tiernan Communications TE6000: designed for digital SNG; available in 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 configurations; supports the new EBU BISS Conditional Access Protocol;

FAST Multimedia Inc silver.XL/purple.XL: extensions for silver.XL and purple.XL now available; these add Media Cleaner Wizard from Terran Interactive

Not surprisingly, the August editorial, "Kill the 8VSB Frankenstein," drew a lot of comment. Most respondents came from two camps: consumers and broadcast

Midas Broadcast 2000: analog console designed specifically for TV studios and mobile video production; supports all DTV and DVD formats including mixing

SyntheSys Research HDEYE292: analysis and generation test system for high-definition serial digital signals (SMPTE292M); supports 14 HDTV formats, including

Philips LDK 23HS mkII: expands the features of its predecessor the LDK23HS camera, offering exact capture of same-minute details and the ability to be

Philips GoldLine series: incorporates ClearView compression technology for enhanced MPEG-2 compression; features improvements in MPEG-2 compression algorithms

FCC issues rules on DTV set labeling The FCC recently adopted rules for the labeling of digital television (DTV) receivers to ensure consumers will be

FCC Chairman warns industry must meet commitments FCC Chairman William E. Kennard used an occasion at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City

PRODUCTION SWITCHER Pinnacle PDS 9000: now shipping; a 36-input, 2.5 M/E production switcher aimed at mid-market live production, specifically news and