JOHN LUFF

What should we, the non-cognoscenti, be doing to prepare ourselves

Video servers are not the same. This month's Technology in Transition column reviews the formats used by various manufacturers, key feature differences and best-fit applications.

Few things in our industry have changed as much as prompting. Until the 1970s, prompting was a mechanical, not electronic, process. Sometimes text was

Video routing is still the hub of all broadcast and production centers. An examination of multi-format, HD and SDI routing techniques and technology

In a perfect world, everyone could have his or her way. Unfortunately with playout automation, that is never the case

A few years ago, I visited a satellite transmission facility in a remote location that was designed to operate off grid if necessary for a considerable

Modern technology has facilitated the possibility in many potential models for centralized broadcasting, including remote control, distributed broadcasting and centralized business operations.

Broadcast stations used to be largely autonomous. Some still are.

My fascination with science, and physics in particular, made playing with light even more interesting.

As the number of inputs and outputs grows the total count of crosspoints grows. Though complexity is high with virtual crosspoints, the relative cost

Just when everything is going well in a production, the audio operator often becomes the center of unwanted attention. One moment the singer on stage

Television engineers tend to think of the world as entirely digital these days. CCDs for image acquisition (digital capture), digital video recorders,

The picture is not improved by upconverting a 525 signal to HDTV for DTV transmission. For many years consultants, equipment designers, production professionals

Since the invention of the hard disk there have been predictions that linear media, including video tape, will eventually disappear. Not even a decade

This issue we complete a four-part series on station automation. We have looked at station automation, newsroom automation, data archive systems and, in this issue, media asset management systems.

When college students attend classes in broadcast journalism today they are pretty unlikely to be exposed to manual typewriters, paper roll teleprompters and news distributed on teletype machines.

Television is a medium of considerable immediacy, but it is steeped in technology that often shapes how the media is used.