For-A has formed an advanced research joint effort with InSync Technology to focus on 8K, the company announced today. The main focus of the new company, called InSync Technology Products Ltd., will be on enabling collaboration on the design and development of 8K UHDTV signal processing equipment. The company will bring together “the […]
Signal processing
Imagine Communications Unveils the Selenio X100, a Next-Generation Signal Processor
Imagine Communications, formerly Harris, has announced the launch of the Selenio X100, the latest enhancement to the company’s facility signal processing and mobile production technology. Defined by IP, software, the cloud and TV Everywhere, the Selenio X100 ensures support for hybrid, next-generation television and production systems by offering an architecture future-proofed for uncompressed baseband over […]
Fox Lab Uses Video Clarity Monitoring to Improve Internet Delivery
Video Clarity, a California-based maker of audio and video quality-assessment and analysis systems, says Fox Networks has installed its RTM 3G real-time audio and video monitoring system in the Network Engineering and Operations Lab in Los Angeles. The lab uses the RTM system to test processing equipment and sample network paths for quality of adaptive […]
Miranda, ChyronHego & Avid to be Used in NBC’s Olympics Coverage
Miranda Technologies will provide Densité modular signal processing, iControl, monitoring solutions and Kaleido multiviewers to NBC during its production of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi beginning later this week. NBC will use Miranda’s technology to manage and prepare the huge number of signals the Broadcast Operations Center will receive from the various venues. Using […]
Riedel’s MediorNet Becomes a Single Fiber Solution
It seems that every aspect of today’s video facilities run over a real-time computer network. A major player in this networking space is Riedel Communications, a company we used to know for its intercoms and audio communications at sporting events. At NAB in 2009, Riedel, headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, introduced MediorNet, the first fiber-based real-time […]
Snell Releases Cloud-Based Standards Converter
Snell’s Alchemist Standards Converter can now be found in software form. The company said today that Alchemist is the first of its products to utilize Snell On Demand, a cloud-based platform that aims to take existing hardware from the traditional TV infrastructure and move it to a generic IT-platform that can be accessed from anywhere. […]
Indiana PBS Group Inching Toward Centralcast Model
Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations is taking baby steps toward a centralcasting model similar to its counterparts in New York and Florida by launching an IP-based video network that will let its television and radio stations share and manage content more efficiently and at a cheaper cost. Once a rollout across the group’s eight TV stations […]
Miranda Multiviewer Delivers Any Source, Anywhere
Miranda Technologies unveiled a new series of multiviewers Thursday, claiming their technology gives broadcasters the flexibility to place any signal on any display without blocking or bandwidth limitations. The Kaleido-MX and Kaleido-Modular-X Multiviewer Series will be on display at this year’s NAB Show. It will start shipping after the show. According to Miranda, sources can […]
How to Broadcast From The Edge of Space
In theory, everything should have worked out. But you can never be too sure when broadcasting a live, remote production from the edge of outer space. If you were one of the 33.3 million people who has watched the Red Bull Stratos Jump on YouTube, where daredevil Felix Baumgartner took a supersonic free fall from […]
KPHO Phoenix Not The Only Station With An Outage
I reported on TVNewsCheck Friday about KPHO Phoenix, a Meredith-owned CBS affiliate, having its over-the-air signal knocked out from a transmitter failure during the worst possible time of year: March Madness. It looks like KPHO isn’t alone. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports several OTA viewers haven’t been able to watch public television station WCVW, ABC station […]