JOHN LUFF

It is clear from the compression ratios that must be achieved that every opportunity to make the job easier ought to be taken. In the early 1970s I remember

Just when everything is going well in a production, the audio operator often becomes the center of unwanted attention. One moment the singer on stage

Television engineers tend to think of the world as entirely digital these days. CCDs for image acquisition (digital capture), digital video recorders,

The picture is not improved by upconverting a 525 signal to HDTV for DTV transmission. For many years consultants, equipment designers, production professionals

The broadcast engineer of today spends his time worrying about software, video servers, DTV and the continual upgrade of the facilities he manages. His

Since the invention of the hard disk there have been predictions that linear media, including video tape, will eventually disappear. Not even a decade

My fascination with science, and physics in particular, made playing with light even more interesting.

As the number of inputs and outputs grows the total count of crosspoints grows. Though complexity is high with virtual crosspoints, the relative cost

In the second installment of four related to automation and asset management, this month we consider data archive systems.

This issue we complete a four-part series on station automation. We have looked at station automation, newsroom automation, data archive systems and, in this issue, media asset management systems.

When college students attend classes in broadcast journalism today they are pretty unlikely to be exposed to manual typewriters, paper roll teleprompters and news distributed on teletype machines.

Compressed video has enabled businesses that were only dreams at one time.

Broadcast stations used to be largely autonomous. Some still are.

For the next four months this column will focus on four interrelated and interdependent areas of television technology: automation software, data archive

JPEG 2000 offers advantages, but at high bit rates.

Master control is undergoing dramatic changes. How will they affect you

In 1939, when General Sarnoff broadcast the first live television show at the World's Fair in New York, synchronization was critical to the ability to

We sometimes forget that the television medium is inherently analog. That is true for both picture and sound. Broadcasters are deeply caught up in the

In the context of a magazine focused on technology, it is important to remember that the purpose of editing is to order images and sound in a way that

It is no surprise that IT technology is increasingly penetrating broadcast TV operations. There are many reasons for this today, but when early broadcast