How international is the NAB Show? The National Association of Broadcasters put out some figures this week that help answer the question. According to a press release dated March 26, about 30,000 of the people expected to attend the show this year will come from outside the United States. That’s just shy of 30% of […]
IBC 2014
Rude Awakening Produces ‘Stuporman’ At IBC
The fire alarm went off sometime between 3:30 and 4 a.m. this morning giving me a rude awakening from my deep slumber. “Attencione,” the recorded voice started after the siren paused for a message instructing guests to use the stairs to evacuate the building played in a series of languages. I quickly dressed and as instructed […]
FOBTV Session Reveals Absurdity of Repack
I can only imagine what broadcasters from around the world gathered at the FOBTV IBC 2014 session Sept.14 must have been thinking as Rick Kaplan, the NAB’s point man on the spectrum auction and repack described what the FCC is doing to build a pool of spectrum for auction to wireless companies. Among the things […]
Panasonic Features New Newsgatherig Camera-recorder at IBC 2014
At IBC 2014, Panasonic showed its newly introduced its AJ-PX800 2/3-inch sensor camera-recorder equipped with 3MOS image sensors for newsgathering applications. Weighing 6.2 pounds, the camera captures both SD and HD and comes with the AVC-Intra and the AVC-LongG (50/25/12Mbps) codecs. Low rate AVC-Proxy file recording on the AJ-PX800 allows support for network operation and off-line […]
DVB To Demo Coding Efficiency Of HEVC At IBC
DVB will demonstrate how HEVC coding efficiency can increase the capacity of both DVB-T2 over-the-air and DVB-S2X satellite transmission at IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, Sept. 12-16. In July, the consortium, which is made up of more than 200 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators and others, approved the first phase of a new spec for using HEVC, […]