Jim Boston

Re-multiplexers will soon allow cable systems to insert local spots and EAS into digital signals

Actually, there is no technical reason why a broadcaster could not install a personality in an STB that looked out for the interest of the broadcaster.

We all know the story of how a house of bricks helped the third little pig to survive in "The Three Little Pigs." But brick structures won't protect you

Selecting the right emergency power system can keep broadcasters on the air in the face of rolling blackouts and other power interruptions.

Taking a dual-path approach to remote broadcasting can make serving clients in HD and SD more economically feasible, by making the same equipment do double duty.

This years NAB demonstrated that our march towards DTV continues. Some might argue that is too strong a verb, but most would certainly agree that is not

Automation at this year's NAB once again has lived up to the old adage of “different things to different folks.

Automation at this year's NAB mirrored the evolutionary changes that are taking place in the broadcast industry. As workflows inside a television facility

Exhibitors at NAB2004 demonstrated that current trends will continue well into the future with regards to automation. A common theme surrounding automation this year is commoditization

One way to limit the amount of compression needed is to sub-sample the chroma. 4:1:1 sampling produces the same bit rate as 4:2:0. Which is better? Here

Here we are going to look at some basic approaches to take when troubleshooting compression systems. How well your compression system works depends on

NAB2001 provided additional evidence that many technologies that were once separate, clearly delineated systems continue to fuse into contiguous solutions

In this day of widespread computer networking, most of us know about the OSI software stack. This allows an application, for example an Internet browser,