DAVID AUSTERBERRY , EDITOR

By the time you are reading this, I will most likely be in Amsterdam attending IBC. Because the show ranks second to NAB as an annual broadcast equipment

Recently, I attended a seminar on advanced media workflows. The panel talked about the advantages that file-based operations bring to production, especially

You may have read recently about the debate in the United States regarding white space in the RF spectrum. Although the debate is based on the recent

I was chatting with a friend about the buzz at NAB, and he said, This 3-D stuff is much more interesting than 3Gb/s. I agree. Not only are there engineering

What happens when you buy content, but it is locked away as a file rather than recorded on a medium that is stored on a shelf? Now that television programming

September is IBC time. It was not long ago that the show title changed from the International Broadcasting Convention to just plain IBC in order to reflect

Television viewers have more ways to view content than ever. It seems to me that the volume of content available is increasing at a much higher rate than

If you are visiting IBC this year, you could well be in Amsterdam reading this. So why did you take a week out of your busy schedule to attend the show?

Last month I went to the Royal Television Society for the annual Schoenberg lecture, which commemorates one of the early developers of television. John

The International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers (IABM) recently held its second annual summit. This year, the theme was developing strategies

Convergence can mean many things. In television, we usually think of convergence as broadcast, IT and telecoms coming together at the technology layer.

Viewers can now see their favorite shows off-the-air, downloaded to a portable player or as pay-per-view from cable or IPTV. They can download to a PC,

With the analog switch-off in progress around the world, in many cases, the replacement has been an MPEG-2 service. From ATSC to SD satellite services,

Most of the readers of Broadcast Engineering would consider themselves to have a higher level of knowledge of television and computers than the average consumer

HDTV in Europe is suffering a long gestation period. Compared with the United States, mainstream programming is barely off the starting blocks. The World

Recently SMPTE has expressed interest in Japanese broadcaster NHK's project to develop an ultra high-definition television system (UHDTV). Much as HDTV

I have been following the recent analog switchoff in a small region of the UK. The analog shutoff is protracted as region-by-region digital transmitter

Although the advertising industry will receive a boost from the Olympics, 2008 is not looking to be a good year. In fact, many predict 2009 will be much

The old standards issue has risen again. Should legislators set technical standards or leave it to the market to decide? This month, the topic in the

If you're attending IBC, you may well be reading this in Amsterdam. Unlike NAB, which has the word broadcasters in the title, the old International Broadcasting

I have just returned from the BroadcastAsia show in Singapore. Being a little quieter than NAB (and what show isn't), I had time to reflect on our business.

The editor explores why video is treated better than audio