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Byline: NED SOSEMAN In October 1988, the theme of Broadcast Engineering's then sister publication Video Systems was 'Resolution Revolution.' The highlight of the exciting news was, wait for it, Super [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Why do many TV broadcasters have multi-megawatt transmitters, high-performance antennas and tall towers? Most broadcast engineers would say it is to replicate the station's analog service contour. [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Filmmaker David Linstrom recently returned from Madagascar, where he shot stunning visuals of the delicate art of silk weaving for a documentary commissioned by the Santa Fe [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Vizrt is supplying BBC Sport with its HD graphics engines to deliver the broadcaster's live television graphics for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Working in conjunction with [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Blackmagic Design has announced the acquisition of the assets of Cintel International. Cintel telecine and film scanners and other post-production products are used by some of the [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Chyron has provided 10 HyperX*th.* on-air graphics playout systems to NBC Olympics during its production of the 2012 London Olympic Games, July 27-Aug. 12, 2012. At the [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Los Angeles-based Digital 3D has developed a reputation for taking its gear on wild rides. Its Emmy-winning Director of Photography/Producer Ken Corben pushes boundaries so that viewers [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman LiveU recently announced that more than 100 units will be used to provide enhanced live video coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Customers that will be [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Raycom Media, one of the largest U.S. TV broadcast groups, has selected the Harris Selenio media convergence platform to exclusively upgrade over-the-air digital broadcast signal encoding services [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Sencore has extended its partnership with PBS to deliver an advanced message data encapsulator in support of the PBS Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act compliance [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Harris Broadcast Communications adds to its growing list of quality management and environmental awards with an ISO 9001 certification for its television transmitter manufacturing facility in Campinas, [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman FOR-A Corporation of America recently announced that Casablanca Online, a leading provider of satellite communications services based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has purchased a large complement of [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman The Boston Symphony Orchestra has once again tapped DPA Microphones for its nationally broadcast, live Boston Pops Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. Held annually in the Hatch [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Rohde & Schwarz has added a top technology player to its roster of companies with the addition of Rohde & Schwarz DVS. Located in Hanover, Germany, the [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Over the winter of 1954, the Regency TR-1 was the iPad of its day. It was the worldas first commercially available transistor radio that fit in a [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Broadcast Pix announced that Texas Southern University (TSU) School of Communication has added a Granite 5000 Video Control Center to its student control room. The new system [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman More than 4000 minutes of tape-based submissions arriving in a variety of formats for the well-known International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) were ingested, stored, DCP-encoded and validated [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Wright State University has deployed Utah Scientific equipment in its newly renovated control room at the Nutter Center, the university's 10,000-seat sports arena. The new control room [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Outdoor Channel has upgraded its existing Harris server and storage system to create new ingest and playout efficiencies while maximizing on-air content protection. The upgrade, which went [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman CreaTV San Jose, which provides four public access and education channels for San Jose, CA, has rolled out its first mobile production vehicle. Anchored with a Broadcast [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman JVC Professional Products Company announced it has partnered with the Independent Theatre Alliance (ITA) to offer the Cinema Libre digital cinema projection system for independent movie theater [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman A little more than two months later, the post-NAB fog from product demos and press releases is lifting, and the reality of the broadcast television industry is [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman What is CVAA you might ask? Itas the 'Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010' and some aspects of it take effect in about two [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) announced it recently completed a master control upgrade for Pierce County TV (PCTV), which operates two government channels and one educational channel from [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston/New England Chapter, has honored Signiant employee Todd Kelly with two Emmy Awards for his independent work on the [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Haivision announced that Asian sports content provider ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) is using the Barracuda H.264 encoder and Makito decoder at its Singapore and Taiwan facilities to [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Utah Scientific has announced that business analytics and software giant SAS has outfitted its award-winning new Executive Briefing Center on its 900-acre Cary, NC, campus with a [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman A WDJT-TV, the CBS affiliate for Milwaukee, has transitioned to local HD news production with 10 JVC GY-HM790 ProHD cameras in the field. Owned by Chicago-based Weigel [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Many may argue that a broadcast engineer's primary mission is to keep the work flowing and the transmitter on the air. True, but we must also recognize [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Broadcast Pix announced that Impulsive Creative Group, a systems integrator based in North Hollywood, CA, used a Granite 5000 Video Control Center for GreenWaves III, a multimedia [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Sweden's largest private provider of broadcast news, Nyhetsbolaget Sverige AB, has launched the country's first 24/7 news channel using the Mosartnewscast automation system from Mosart Medialab. As [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Tennessee Digital Video (TNDV) has standardized on ChromaDuMonde color calibration charts from DSC Labs across its mobile production business, establishing consistency on board its three trucks for [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Professional video and audio systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) recently restructured the in-house video production control room at JELD-WEN Field in Portland, OR, for the [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Chyron has announced that its Creative Services division has teamed up with Phase 3 Productions -- a TV, film and multimedia production company based in Kingston, Jamaica [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Optical Devices Division, announced that 'War Elephants,' a nature documentary featuring the cinematography and conservation efforts of DP Bob Poole, was shot using [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman As the nation's largest owner of stations in mid-size markets, Gray Television Group dominates broadcasting across Middle America. With 36 diverse affiliates spread throughout college towns and [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp announced that ABC affiliate WCFT/WJSU/WBMA in Birmingham-Anniston-Tuscaloosa, AL, has purchased 20 GY-HM790 ProHD camcorders for studio and [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Compliance is the hottest buzzword in the industry right now because broadcasters must comply with new laws, such as the CALM Act. Broadcasters stake their licenses and [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Ross Video has announced the acquisition of Cambotics, a robotic camera systems company based in Escondido, CA. Cambotics joins the recently established Ross Robotics division to compliment [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Harmonic announced it will provide Omneon MediaGrid shared storage systems and ProMedia Carbon enterprise transcoding software to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman AXON Digital Design has been selected by ANO Sports Broadcasting (Panorama) to provide Synapse modular processing equipment for a fleet of Outside Broadcast (OB) trucks. AXON modular [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Software Generation Ltd (SGL) has announced that the Federal Drug Administrationas (FDA) broadcast facility, the Division of Communication Media (DCM), has installed an SGL FlashNet archive. The [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Harris Vice President of Broadcast Technology Jay Adrick has been re-elected as ATSC vice chairman for a third one-year term. The vote was passed at the March [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman HTN Communications has renewed its contract with the Major League Baseball (MLB) Network to provide comprehensive fiber backhaul services for the network's Emmy Award-nominated Ballpark Cam system. [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Signiant has announced that digital services provider AllDigital has deployed the innovative Signiant Manager software to enable fast, secure exchanges of file-based media between key business partners [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman BTX Technologies has announced that its ProBlox-D all-in-one connector system is being used by Regional School District Number 14 in Woodbury, CT, in a new meeting room [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman How do you monitor the quality of an MPEG-2 stream? Most broadcast engineers use the concept of Quality of Experince (QoE). Some engineers call it Perceived Quality [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Letas not talk about NAB. Instead, letas do something simple like identify what makes the magic of television. The answer is simple. Itas content. We live and [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Chyron and German software developer Ventuz Technology announced that they are entering into a strategic technology partnership. Ventuz is known for 3D real-time software, which is used [...]

Byline: Ned Soseman Central Texas ABC affiliate KXXV has upgraded its plant from analog to digital with Utah Scientific routing and master control equipment. The move is part of a [...]