JOHN LUFF

Explore the issues news broadcasters face and the difficult decisions they must make to keep their operations profitable.

Learn about the advances that HDTV equipment has experienced in the past decade.

There are plenty of misconceptions about compressed video. If you look back in the recent history of our industry much misinformation exists. Twenty years

From the general-purpose oscilloscope, manufacturers have adapted a specialized version, the “waveform monitor,” to simplify its use for video and TV — and now, for digital TV.

The complexity of modern broadcast operations exceeds what a person could be reasonably expected to accomplish by manual action alone.

One might think that nothing new in routing can be created, but manufacturers have been hard at work creating new and powerful products for infrastructure

Follow the important advances in the technology that broadcasters use in the field and in the newsroom.

It is clearly valuable to many stations and production studios to have hardware that can adapt to a 525 shoot today and a 1080 shoot tomorrow.

Take a look at how different technologies and techniques, both new and old, are affecting the industry

In a perfect world, everyone could have his or her way. Unfortunately with playout automation, that is never the case

Lenses and sensors and sleds, oh my! Here’s a tour of the technologies that capture TV images

The capabilities that were once the province of ADO and its successors have shown up inside production switchers.

he march of technology to wider bandwidths continues to put increasing pressure on copper infrastructure and make fiber more attractive