JOHN LUFF

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

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

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

Centralized operations are not always the most successful and economically viable because either the labor saved is not sufficient or the interconnection cost is too high.

Lens technology may be the first of several enabling technologies that led to the development of television.

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

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

A decade ago, would any of us have guessed that today we would see a rapidly expanding market for HDTV programming and a demand for HDTV hardware? Perhaps

Controlling reality is always expensive, and creating illusions is sometimes nearly as expensive. Entire motion pictures are being created in computers,

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

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

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

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

JPEG 2000 offers advantages, but at high bit rates.

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