Business
Channel in a box: is it for you?
By Mark Cousins, product line manager media servers, Omneon.
Hybrid move to IT-based playout
Recent advances include more mature server functionality and more tightly integrated ingest, writes Boromy Ung, product manager workflow & playout, Miranda Technologies.
IT Workflow 2009 conference reports
At the first conference to knock IT and broadcasting heads together, mutual suspicion seemed to be giving way to sensible dialogue. Richard Dean and...
Broadcast cameras
Affordability is key to the new wave of HD broadcast cameras on the market – our starting point for this year's Acquisition Special. As...
Keynote – Jeremy Bancroft
Opening a packed inaugural conference, chairman Jeremy Bancroft of Media Asset Capital may have surprised some delegates by suggesting that tape isn’t quite the...
Discovery Communications
Reducing the costs of delivering to more than 10 VoD platforms with 14 different languages and eight subtitle languages. Presentation by Darren Breeze, Discovery...
Television versioning & translation
Digitising and transforming new and archived content – and dramatically reducing ingest time. Presentation by Jake Robbins, TVT, supported by Bruce Devlin, CTO, AmberFin.
L’Équipe 24/24
The L’Equipe Group is a French sports-based media empire encompassing the L’Équipe TV sports news channel, the www.lequipe.fr website and the RTL-L’Équipe digital radio...
The Press Association
The Press Association news agency has about 1,600 staff worldwide, of whom some 160 to 200 work in IT. Workflow presentation by James Elliot,...
Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
Providing catch-up TV content on the web, and other platforms, within minutes of its live transmission has been the key driver for Nederlandse Publieke...
Turner Broadcasting
Turner’s Broadcast Inventory Management Project (BIM): centralised ingest and archive in a multichannel environment.
GOL Television
Setting up and launching a 24/7 HD sports service: GOL TV is a 24/7 football channel in Spain that launched in August 2008, and...
Prompters LED to bright future
There are two main trends in prompter design: a move to lower-power LED back lighting; and, in tune with the broadcast industry generally, models...
Make IT work for you
Challenges of current broadcast workflows: convergence can be a good thing – but how can IT help? Session presented by Declan Wood and Alistair...
SBS Broadcasting Networks
From planning to playout – the automatic workflow. Integrating business-critical modules that are fully embedded in the systems environment. Ricki Berg, technical manager, SBS...
High speed cameras – the need for speed
Hi-motion innovation from I-Movix, P+S, Vision Research and Weisscam, by David Fox.
Deep Interleaving for uninterrupted Link
As David Fox reports, there are a growing number of choices if you don’t want, or can’t have, wires.
Location monitors go 3D and OLED
David Fox looks at developments in camera monitors and finds that 3D and OLED technologies are at the forefront of recent R&D.
The broadcast power struggle
Although camera design is becoming more power efficient, high-end HD and digital cinematography cameras still require a lot of energy, especially when you add...
3G soap: The future of entertainment?
A new soap opera designed to showcase the capabilities of 3G mobile technology will debut in the UK next month. The five-minute episodic series,...