With the exception of non-Class A LPTV and translator licensees that use Morse code to identify their transmitters, broadcasters have little use for the code. Many readers, however, are amateur radio operators, or may have thought about getting an amateur radio license. For them, the FCC decision last week to drop th

Today's TV viewers want more content from an increasing number of sources, and that means that Internet delivery is a growing phenomenon. With hybrid technologies emerging, it is reasonable to expect that television broadcast will increasingly use the Internet to expand throughput beyond that afforded by a single RF channel. But there are limitations to the Internet that must be understood in order to capitalize on this commodity, and some of those constraints are being overcome by new technologies.

Under the proposed net neutrality rules, Internet providers will be barred from blocking or slowing Internet traffic on the basis of the content being sent or downloaded.

It notes it’s been 100 years since “SOS” became the standard signal for ships in distress.

In analog communications, error correction depends on the ability of humans "decoding" the sound or picture to separate the desired information from the noise. In digital communications, this function is accomplished through the use of forward error correction coding. Coding spreads out the data (in amplitude steps, ti

The pending acquisition will broaden the company’s technology portfolio in digital broadcast, mobile and Internet markets.

Synchronization to video, other time code or to a stable GPS time is standard functions of all time code modules.