Latest articles by STEVEN M. BLUMENFELD
Production room infrastructure
The added benefit of using this type of ATM spoke/hub topology was that any single island could be upgraded as technology forces networking at higher
Multicast
What is multicasting? Any description of multicast must start with unicast. Unicast is what many of us know as the basis for World Wide Web communications.
Commercial insertion
It is no longer enough to bring eyes and/or ears to advertisers they are demanding qualified and clearly segmented audiences. At this year's NAB, it was
Selecting a streaming partner
When selecting a streaming partner, no fly-by-night operation will do. For the past few years I have been writing about streaming media and interactive
Tracking traffic
Over the past few months I have been giving this topic a lot of thought. We all use information every day, and without it we would have a terrible time trying to run our businesses.
Streaming for profits
Come one, come all. Step right up and hear about a technology that costs an arm and a leg, has an increasing variable cost for every new user, and doesn't generate any profits.
NAB Replay - Compression
The large investment by companies in compression technologies is finally beginning to bear fruit.
Compression products at NAB2004
At this year's NAB show, there were companies, big and small, showing off tools of the trade using compression. MPEG is clearly the standard of choice
broadcasters and broadband
Warning, caution - there are no customer accessible parts inside - removing the cover may void your warranty" exclaimed the tag on my new piece of equipment.
Repurposing your on-air program material
Why would you want to repurpose material that has already been seen? Do you really think your viewers want to see things that were shot last year? If
Class-based queuing
At Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories the idea of class-based queuing (CBQ) was developed to better manage the growing bandwidth needs of enterprises. This
Preproduction issues in streaming
If you have to shoot in DV and need to deliver in many different formats, cut and edit in the native format, and then only transcode the final material.
Streaming vs. file download
With a downloadable file the content owner is much more vulnerable. This month, a question that has plagued/delighted me for the past two years: Which
