Renaud Lavoie
Latest articles by Renaud Lavoie

A fiber-optic tutorial, part 1
By Renaud Lavoie published
In a previous Broadcast Engineering article (Understanding blocking capacitor effects, August 2011), I mentioned that one of the first tasks in my broadcast

Understanding blocking capacitor effects
By Renaud Lavoie published
Why should we do AC-coupling on SDI and, how does AC-coupling degrade our SDI signal? In past experiences, many engineers asked me this simple question,

Video and signal conversion, part 2
By Renaud Lavoie published
In this concluding part, we’ll look at specific building blocks to carry out tasks, including graphic format conversion, VGA, DVI, HDMI and the oft-needed up/down/crossconverter.

Multiviewers
By Renaud Lavoie published
Multiviewers have become ubiquitous in most broadcast control rooms.
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