Soft Troubleshooting September 7th 2015 - 08:00 AM

The few remaining moving parts in television stations other than automated studio cameras are fans, pumps and disk drives. Electro-mechanics has been replaced by chips and buffers with settings. Maintenance engineers need a new tool box.

The Advantages of Proprietary Compression for KVM September 5th 2015 - 01:00 PM

In a KVM system, the letter V – short for video – plays the most important role because it is the only component that is visible when transmitting and switching signals. The migration from analogue to digital image signals constituted a major challenge for KVM: higher resolutions require higher data rates. However, the…

Open Media Alliance Throws Down the Gauntlet to HEVC September 4th 2015 - 09:30 AM

Seven Internet giants have joined forces to build an open source codec to challenge HEVC for compressing high definition video content and especially Ultra HD (UHD) or 4K. The new Open Media Alliance Source project has the stated intention of developing “next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies” but the subtext is …

TV’s Blurry Future August 31st 2015 - 08:00 AM

The future of TV broadcasting is in the air, but maybe not on the air. FCC repack auctions and ATSC 3.0 introduce new variables further complicating predictions of TV’s future, even with a UHD crystal ball and a good lawyer. A lot of people without call letters want to tell b…