TV Technology User Reports
TV Technology User Reports
Grass Valley K2 Media Server Supports WTVI's Educational Mission
by Tom Green, 01.06.2009
As a public television station owned and supported by the people of Charlotte it's always been our mission to help educate the community in the most efficient way. More...
Ross SoftMetal Serves Up The Weather Channel
by Steve Fahey, 01.06.2009
We currently have a total of five 4-channel SMS systems: one for each of our three control rooms and two (main and backup) in master control. More...
Avid Exposes UofM Students to Real-World TV News Ops
by Ray Ekness, 01.06.2009
What really tied it all together was the Avid Unity ISIS shared-storage system, as it allows students to instantly share projects and media from any workstation. More...
FFV Shines in Specialized HD DVR App
by Robert Chartier, 01.06.2009
The Elite HD is the first-ever camera-mounted DVR and player using J2K compression for recording HD-SDI video signals. More...
AerialExposures.com Adds P2 Gear
by Arnie Itzkowitz, 01.06.2009
I can sit with my client and have random access to the footage I've shot moments before. More...
Digital Broadcast Gets Kudos From Chattanooga Stations
by Patrick Motley, 01.06.2009
We discovered that the MediaFire, with master control automation built into and totally integrated with the hardware, could perform a multitude of functions at a surprisingly low cost. More...
College Restructures Operations With JVC
by Dave Dvorak, 01.06.2009
Our primary goal in choosing JVC cameras was to go tapeless. We looked at a variety of cameras, but JVC's were the only ones that allowed us to record onto tape in HDV and hard disk recorder simultaneously. More...
SeaChange Tackles Big Task at KSPS-TV
by Bob Wyatt, 01.06.2009
We've gone to great lengths to build a system that reliably ingests, plays out and manages the tremendous amount of content passing through our facility at any given time. More...
360 Systems Servers Provide Solid Platform for CityTV
by Darren Doerschel, 01.06.2009
The servers accept native files, so we don't have to compress or transcode the files, which saves time and money. More...
Leightronix Nexus Pushes All the Right Buttons
by Richard Cory, 01.05.2009
My story is probably quite typical of most people who work in local TV. One day in 1986, I walked into an old vacant kindergarten room and was told it was going to become a cable access channel facility. More...
Harris Nexio AMP Smooths HD Path at NET
by David B. Stewart, 01.05.2009
We have been successfully using Harris (previously Leitch) VR440 SD servers and decided to augment these with the new Harris Nexio Amp HD/SD advanced media platform. More...
GTA TeleGuam Relies on Sencore Servers for Time-Shifting
by George Smith, 01.05.2009
In a business such as ours, a paramount consideration is the supply of quality and variety of viewing choices that the end customer wants and needs, while still meeting the requirements of the industry and our content providers. More...
Beverly Hills Goes Digital With Video Technics
by Michael Forys, 01.05.2009
The city is planning to construct a new, integrated studio facility, but I feared the old automation system wouldn't make it much longer and decided that we needed to make the jump to digital technology sooner rather than later. More...
Omneon Streamlines VPT Operations
by Joseph Tymecki, 01.05.2009
The shift to file-based operations was designed to improve both internal workflow and the use of assets. More...