James O'Neal
Latest articles by James O'Neal

Harris Announces Breakthrough in Television Router Design
By James O'Neal published
Harris Broadcast has announced a new routing product that the company says is first to be able to scale to very large signal source/destination environments without ancillary distribution and cabling
Panasonic, Sony Report Q2 Losses
By James O'Neal published
Recent financial statements issued by electronics giants Panasonic and Sony are still showing lots of red ink.

2016 ‘Bits By The Bay’ Plays to Sell-Out Crowd
By James O'Neal published
I recently wrote about the value (and necessity) of keeping up-to-date, especially in a broadcast engineering career.

Tektronix’s WFM2300 Waveform Monitor
By James O'Neal published
Tektronix has been making monitoring and test gear almost as long as I’ve been around...

Is Your Broadcast Facility Ready For a Power Surge?
By James O'Neal published
Guarding against ‘microsecond invaders,’ Part I

LDM Transmission Hot Topic at BMSB
By James O'Neal published
Event attracts 150 international television experts.

2016 Product Preview: Signal Processing
By James O'Neal published
Now that we’re solidly in the “digital era,” a lot of things have changed about how we do television.

‘Knowledge Is Power’ Is True Now More Than Ever
By James O'Neal published
I first heard the saying “nothing is more permanent than change” when I was a boy, (60 or so years ago).

Preparing For TV’s Big Repacking Exercise
By James O'Neal published
“It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way….”

Keep Your Transmitting Plant at Peak Operation
By James O'Neal published
Just as with periodic tower inspections, regular preventative maintenance can keep you on the air without interruptions.

ATSC 3.0 DTV Standard Gets Far East ‘Test Drive’
By James O'Neal published
History was made in Shanghai as a multinational group of television engineers gathered to perform systems compatibility testing of the ATSC 3.0 digital TV standard.

Broadcasters Prep for Nationwide EAS Trial
By James O'Neal published
Will ‘third time’ be the charm?
NHK Broadcasts 8K Video Over the Air
By James O'Neal published
Japan’s NHK broadcasting organization claims to have successfully transmitted 8k “Super Hi-Vision” television signals via a single standard UHF terrestrial broadcast channel over a distance of 27 km

NAB Show Product Preview: Signal Processing
By James O'Neal published
The industry is quickly moving to IP connectivity, virtualization, higher and higher definition imagery, and other enhancements.
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