JOHN LUFF
Latest articles by JOHN LUFF

The cost of HD
By JOHN LUFF published
Find out the past, present and future cost and performance of HD equipment.

Centralcasting solutions
By JOHN LUFF published
An automation system that removes as much human intervention as possible is key.

HDTV equipment
By JOHN LUFF published
Learn about the advances that HDTV equipment has experienced in the past decade.

Making money with news
By JOHN LUFF published
Explore the issues news broadcasters face and the difficult decisions they must make to keep their operations profitable.

Production switchers
By JOHN LUFF published
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.

Monitoring and control
By JOHN LUFF published
Complexity is an insidious and invisible enemy in any human endeavor. What makes modern media facilities interesting is in no small measure that we have

Content repurposing
By JOHN LUFF published
We often have to remind ourselves that the purpose of broadcast engineering is to create compelling content that informs and entertains viewers in ways

Can you hear me now?
By JOHN LUFF published
This is supposed to be a communications business. We build visual and audio communications with our viewers. Everything behind the scenes is done to get

Monitoring video
By JOHN LUFF published
It's not hard to monitor video. What could be simpler? Plug a BNC video cable and RCA audio cable into a monitor, and glory be it works! There was a time

Building file-based workflows
By JOHN LUFF published
You don't have to look too far into broadcast technology today to see a fundamental shift in paradigm at work. For decades, since the first audio recorders

Hybrid broadcast/IT facilities
By JOHN LUFF published
IT technology is dominating broadcast

Facility management and control
By JOHN LUFF published
An SNMP-managed network can detect failures instantly
Technology Seminar - Routing systems
By JOHN LUFF published
Notable advances shown at NAB were plentiful. Utah Scientific introduced the UTAH-400/XL series, which includes a massive 1056 1056 matrix in a single

Wire in broadcast
By JOHN LUFF published
Wire is one thing every media facility has, and it usually has several different kinds. Fifty years ago, RG59 coax was all a broadcaster needed. Monochrome

Intercom systems
By JOHN LUFF published
There are three types of communication that can convey complex information: written, visual (i.e. video) and spoken. In complex tasks, such as managing

MPEG splicing
By JOHN LUFF published
Often, articles like this start by heralding new eras of technology in which paradigms shift and deliver a sea of change destined to alter the workflow
Routing switchers
By JOHN LUFF published
This year's NAB offered some interesting new products from several routing switcher manufacturers. It is hard to say that anything in this mature business

Graphics and effects
By JOHN LUFF published
A look at the underlying technology of today’s new graphics platforms and the wide array of features and benefits available

Modeo mobile video
By JOHN LUFF published
Beginning this year, Modeo plans to deliver live mobile TV to the top 30 markets across the United States

Video routing
By JOHN LUFF published
Routing switchers are basically an evolutionary line of products that can be traced back at least as far as patch panels. For about two decades, little

Newsroom automation
By JOHN LUFF published
Three classes of newsroom tools have developed that might all be considered automation of one sort or another: production automation, newsroom workflow automation and a hybrid in-between
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