Bob Kovacs

“Adding more viewing options creates more overall viewing, and therefore more available video ad opportunities.”

Broadcast Engineering magazine was a long-time favorite of mine, with articles that challenged me to learn more about video technology, and advertising that was often as educational as the articles.

In one l-o-n-g drop on Oct. 14, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner proved that a man in a spacesuit could fall safely back to Earth from more than 24 miles high.

Technology advancement fuels a content-handling revolution

Expensive and complicated, automation and asset management systems used to be the domain of the wealthiest and most forward-thinking operations.

Test and measurement equipment continues to evolve in the new world of IP, streaming and over-the-top video.

It doesn’t take long working out in the field to learn that just about everyone has a different definition of what constitutes “the field.”

On Feb. 11 at 2:33 p.m. local time, TV station KRTV in Great Falls, Mont., saw zombies take over the broadcast in the middle of the “Steve Wilkos Show.”

Upgrades to the Trinix router provide direct fiber optic I/O and multiviewer output from the router.

Allows content in a variety of digital formats to be converted to JPEG 2000 for video and PCM for audio, and then combined into the MXF container format.

Partnerships with customers have led the company into new areas.

LCD displays rule the field, but change is coming

There's no shortage of technology, but is there an incentive to make it happen?

Flat panel monitors will be thinner and more flexible

From transmitter to viewer, measurements ensure clean signals

Satellite trucks keep rolling, despite the allure of IP video

Reception problems create 'haves' and 'have-nots'

An insider's look at the six-year project

Lightweight flat-panel displays offer low power consumption, save valuable truck space