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Powerful New Levels of Discovery

by Drew Lanham Issue 90 - June 2014 For media creators, owners, and distributors, the amount of digital media in their libraries never stops growing as they continue to add new content every day. Those who dont organize and manage their data well are not getting the maximum value out of their archive. Thats why they need easy, accurate, and cost-ef...

Submitted by Drew Lanham

Published 01 July 2014

Ask the Experts

by Matthew Rehrer Issue 90 - June 2014 What trends are you seeing with respect to investment in archiving solutions?Investment in archiving solutions has been shaped by several major trends, all fundamentally driven by the desire to store and manage media content in such a way that it can better support effective and/or profitable use of those asse...

Submitted by Matthew Rehrer

Published 01 July 2014

Does lack of training produce inaudible sound

by John Barlow Issue 89 - May 2014 Jamaica Inn just happens to be the latest example of a mainstream TV drama production being broadcast with inaudible dialogue. The reasons vary from production to production but the end result is always an enormous waste of both acting and technical talent along with immense swathes of production budgets. Was it a...

Submitted by John Barlow

Published 01 June 2014

Be bold be brave but get the basics right

by Peter Savage Issue 88 - April 2014 The world, and especially George Osborne, is telling us that we have never had it so good. GDP has finally climbed past the 2008 mark, and we are now set for many years of rose-tinted growth from our strong economy. Well George may have a point, and it may be worth considering some of the aspects of business ma...

Submitted by Dick Hobbs.

Published 01 May 2014

Ask the Experts with IABM

by Peter White Issue 87 - March 2014 1. In terms of technology - how is the broadcast industry set to change in 2014?2013 was a particularly challenging year for many vendors in the broadcast and media technology sector. According to the IABM Industry Index, while there was some modest growth last year, many businesses experienced an ongoing declin...

Submitted by Peter White

Published 01 April 2014

Training the next generation

by Dick Hobbs Issue 86 - February 2014 At the end of January a new body the Institute for Training in Television Production (ITTP) held its first conference, organised by the publishers of TV-Bay magazine and chaired by former broadcaster Roz Morris, MD of TV News London Ltd. A packed room debated sometimes hotly the issues. Chair of ITTP is freela...

Submitted by Dick Hobbs.

Published 01 March 2014

Data security in the cloud

by David Peto Issue 85 - January 2014 Cloud computing, forecast to become a $150 billion industry by 2014, is not only growing, its transforming almost every industry. And it could transform TV and broadcast media too, especially when it comes to first mile production, collaboration and data security. Modern production requires increasing numbers o...

Submitted by David Peto

Published 01 February 2014

The impact on media workflows for multi site and cloud op...

by Peter Gallen Issue 85 - January 2014 Many broadcasters are considering multi-site operating or even using the cloud to make their content more widely available. In fact, the trend in broadcast operations is towards distributed operations and cloud will be used increasingly to support workflows over multiple locations in order to maximise efficie...

Submitted by Peter Gallen

Published 01 February 2014

Peter Savage writes his Christmas wishlist

by Peter Savage Issue 84 - December 2013 This year has been a funny one, with a lot being promised and not a lot happening in the TV world. As I sit down and reminisce on 2013, for once I have little to really write about in technology terms, so I thought I would write my Christmas list to Santa and see if that throws up any thoughts. Dear Santa,Ca...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 January 2014

Leaping over the top

by Bob LambIssue 84 - December 2013 Around the world, consumers are becoming addicted to viewing over-the-top (OTT) video on the device or screen of their choice, anywhere and at any time. For broadcasters, content owners, and service providers, the ability to deliver broadcast-quality media over the open Internet presents a tremendous opportunity...

Submitted by Bob Lamb

Published 01 January 2014

Broadcasting from the icy tundra

by BJ KirschhofferIssue 84 - December 2013 Polar Bears International (PBI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to polar bear conservation and educating people about the effects of climate change on the arctic ecosystem. PBIs free educational broadcasts connect scientists in the field with students from all over the world who want to learn about...

Submitted by BJ Kirschhoffer

Published 01 January 2014

The impact of depreciation with Peter Savage

by Peter SavageIssue 83 - November 2013 I spent last Thursday evening with a longstanding friend discussing depreciation. I can see you all sitting up and taking note, thinking, Wow! This man Savage has a really exciting life ¦. But, hard as it might be to believe, it was a very interesting conversation and one that demonstrates how the market has...

Submitted by Dick Hobbs.

Published 01 December 2013

Embracing the 4K future with next generation encoding tec...

by Kevin CookIssue 83 - November 2013 Whats keeping todays media and broadcast operators up at night? To find out, just walk the floor of any 2013 broadcast industry trade show. Only a few short years ago we were obsessed with the digital transition and migrating to HD operations, followed by adoption of 3-D technologies. And now, todays big challe...

Submitted by Ludovic Pertuisel#

Published 01 December 2013

Peter Savage looks at corporate entertainment

by Peter SavageIssue 80 - August 2013 Two weeks ago I was lucky to be invited to a golf day with a broadcast dealer whose business is, co-incidentally, a supporter of TV-Bay. It was a fantastic day and everyone really enjoyed it but it raised several queries that I thought worthy of addressing in an article. Youre partying for the taxmanThe first q...

Submitted by KitPlus

Published 01 September 2013

The evolution of camera connectivity and the HPX600

Tape in, tape out. Cable in, video out. Card in, card out. Simpler times: productions orchestrated by an army of runners, tape op’s and engineers, with transmission to TV, ingest via a VTR and a room dedicated to storing media. Today’s production team has changed. It’s become a small elite squad, tasked with multi-channel playout, multi-resolution...

Submitted by Kieron Seth#

Published 01 July 2013