Latest articles by Joey Gill
It doesn’t really matter what is broken these days, it’s either deemed disposable or worthy of repair.
It wasn’t that long ago that getting monitors to “agree” in a production control room was a full-time job.
A couple of decades ago—before the development of file based workflow—the Holy Grail for broadcasters was being able to dub content with no degradation.
It doesn’t really matter where you are in the chain—acquisition, aggregation, production, post, distribution, broadcast, or streaming—when things are not right, it’s a problem.
Wire, fiber and connectors all make the world we live in go around.
There didn’t appear to be any lack of interest around “connectivity” exhibitors at this year’s NAB Show.
Talk about options for moving content around—there was just about any flavor that you could want at the 2014 NAB Show.
There was no shortage of transmission hardware at this year’s NAB Show, with plenty of transmitters, transmission line and antennas.
I like balance as it makes me comfortable, and comfortable is how I feel as a broadcaster having many tools at my disposal.
For as long as I’ve been in the broad- cast engineering business, there have been small “brick” pieces of gear.
In managing a broadcast facility, many things have changed during the past few years.
Believe what you like, but the data that I have supports the idea that over-the-air television is nowhere near dead.
Even though I’ve been in this industry for more than three decades, it’s still exciting to see test gear that makes troubleshooting easier.
Allows monitoring and evaluation of both multichannel audio and metadata content in the professional broadcast environment.
As I started this review, I reflected back on the times I worked overnight at our transmitter site some 25 miles from the studio, each and every Thursday night.
Industry bids 'hale and farewell' to cathode ray tubes for field and control room monitors.
With 4K solidly here and 8K on the horizon, test gear capable of 12 Gbps data rates is now on the table.
