ALDO CUGNINI
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Video interfaces
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Professional digital interfaces continue to evolve in parallel with higher-resolution professional and consumer video formats. The once simple arena of

Audio level control
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Electronically processed analog audio has been around since about 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray filed patents for transmitting the human

Digital audio for DTV
By ALDO CUGNINI published
There are various technologies available to broadcasters and consumers to augment video and audio programming. Digital technology allows the use of additional

ATSC enhancements
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Now that ATSC is about to embark on its status as the primary TV transmission method in the United States, let's take a look at a number of changes to

Compression tech
By ALDO CUGNINI published
The ubiquity of compressed video brings some interesting challenges to broadcasters transmitting video programs. One of these is an increasing tendency

Video over Wi-Fi
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Wi-Fi is all around us, destined to be as ubiquitous as terrestrial broadcast. Can it eventually replace broadcast? Could it make DTV obsolete in a short

The IPTV picture
By ALDO CUGNINI published
IPTV is said to be what you want, when you want it, or essentially video on demand. It evolved as a way for owners of the telephone system infrastructure

Compression toolkit
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Many video operators probably take the operation of the various processing devices in the video chain for granted, especially as they affect the video

Wireless video
By ALDO CUGNINI published
With wireless technologies moving more content to viewers, live television broadcast must adapt to consumers' lifestyles, and while an OTA connection

TV on the go
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Mobile DTV standards give content providers the ability to broadcast multiple video programs and data to mobile and vehicular devices. Although basic

The road to 3-D
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Although 3-D content is widely available in theaters, and 3-D disc players are now on retail shelves, terrestrial digital television has not caught up
Interactive services
By ALDO CUGNINI published
The killer app of computer interactivity, when considering popularity, is probably the Web browser. But interactivity requires more than just a browser;

Mobile video technology
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Mobile DTV is continuing to roll out in the United States. The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) recently projected that the new service will reach more

Captioning systems
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Legacy analog issues remain after the digital transition.
Media wrappers
By ALDO CUGNINI published
Broadcasting today relies on the ingest, storage and playout of content involving many different tape- and file-based media. With the migration toward
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