Archive for the ‘Audio’ Category
by Michael Grotticelli April 11th, 2012
 This year’s program will be held Saturday, April 14 through Thursday, April 19th. The Broadcast Engineering Conference (BEC), a six-day conference featuring technical papers, addresses the most recent developments in broadcast technology and focuses on the opportunities and challenges that face broadcast engineering professionals around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, broadcast, broadcast engineering, Hybrid Television, Infrastructure, NAB, radio, Super Session, television
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by Michael Grotticelli March 19th, 2012
While passage of the CALM Act has consumers less susceptible to sudden spikes in the audio levels of the TV shows and commercials they watch, and politicians feeling good about themselves for passing “feel good” legislation, content creators and audiophiles are more than a bit concerned. They fear that stations will implement the cheapest solutions to solve the problem and in the process compress the levels and make the content far from what was originally intended. This, in turn, means a less than ideal listening environment, which is exactly what digital television audio sought to resolve.
 Rich Cabot is founder and chief technology officer of Qualis Audio and a self-proclaimed audiophile. Rich Cabot is founder and chief technology officer of Qualis Audio, a Lake Oswego, Oregon-based manufacturer of audio loudness monitoring technology as part of its Sentinel line of surround sound audio monitors. He’s also a self-described audiophile with a PhD degree in Surround Sound Psychoacoustics (he also co-founded the company Audio Precision, which he sold in 2001). For him, the issue hits home (theater). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 5.1, Calm Act, compressors, Home theater, Qualis Audio, Rich Cabot, signal processing, stereo, surround sound
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by Michael Grotticelli February 28th, 2012
NEP Broadcasting based in Pittsburgh, Penn., provided its own red carpet treatment for the 84th Academy Awards telecast on Sunday. The veteran mobile production company supplied four HD-capable mobile production trucks on site, at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles for the 84th Academy Awards telecast on ABC on Sunday. Each was dedicated to a specific portion of the world famous telecast, and each carried different configurations of HD production technology to help produce the live broadcast in the 720p format.
NEP Broadcasting owns and operates one of the country’s largest fleets with 47 trucks, producing a wide variety if live sports, entertainment and corporate video events. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Academy Awards, Calrec, cameras, Evertz, EVS, Grass Valley, HDTV, live production, NEP Broadcasting, Oscars, outside broadcast, Production, routers, servers, Sony, switchers, telecast, Telex
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by Michael Grotticelli February 24th, 2012
The need for live outdoor production trucks continues to grow as more and more sports and entertainment events are televised and distributed across multiple platforms. NEP Broadcasting, with one of the country’s largest fleets (47 trucks), recently added two new HD trucks to its fleet, with more are coming later this year. The company’s new ND5 is designed for the sports and light entertainment markets, while its Arizona truck is specifically for the entertainment industry.
“Both Arizona and ND5 build on our 30 years of experience designing mobile television production facilities,” said George Hoover, Chief Technology Officer at NEP Broadcasting. “They each utilize innovative design features pioneered by NEP, including a new lightweight power system in ND5 and full 16 channel embedded audio support in Arizona.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Calrec, cameras, Denali, Evertz Microsystems, Grass Valley, mobile production, NEP Broadcasting, OB vans, outside broadcast, remote production, Sony, trucks
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by Michael Grotticelli February 23rd, 2012
Broadcast Pix, in Billerica, Mass., continues to change its perception (and that of the industry at large) of what a switcher can (and should) do to meet the demands of current video production. In 2002 its founders broke away from a traditional switcher company called Echolab, with the vision to leverage IT technology and partner with third-party suppliers in order to offer a cost-effective system that met the new requirements for a less costly way to set up a control room and have it perform like professionals were used to.
So, the new company shipped its first system, Studio 1000, in 2003. Customers were challenged with having use a keyboard and mouse instead of a dedicated control panel. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Broadcast Pix, Granite, integrated production systems, Mica, NAB 2012, Production, Slate, switchers, Video Control Center, virtual set technology, voice-activated control, VOX
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by Michael Grotticelli February 22nd, 2012
If there was any doubt about broadcasters’ interest in managing and controlling the audio levels of the commercials, short-form promos and long-form programs they distribute, a packed room of engineers gathered to discuss the issue this week in New York City was a telling sign. The group was made up of members from the New York chapters of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE).
It was the first time anyone could remember that the four groups had combined their meetings to discuss a singular topic; in this case one that is applicapable to all of the industries they represent. A government mandate that forces broadcasters and program distributors to comply with a new law (the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation, or CALM Act) or face the threat of fines apparently has a way of doing that. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: AES, Calm Act, Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation, dialnorm, distributors, engineer, Evertz Microsystems, fines, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, law, legislation, Linear Acoustic, meeting, multichannel, MVPDs, Programming, SBE, signal processing, SMPTE, Society of Broadcast Engineers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Audio Engineering Society, video
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by Michael Grotticelli February 14th, 2012
California-based Wohler Technologies is now licensing loudness control technology from a company called Eyeheight, headquartered in the Watford, UK, and making it available to customers using the openGear architecture from Ross Video. The openGear platform accepts various cards that make all types of signal processing technology available to broadcasters that have committed their infrastructure to the modular, standard sized frame.
Eyeheight is known for developing a wide variety of test & measurement devices— hardware legalizers, logo generators, safe-area generators, keyers, color correctors and aspect ratio converters—that help broadcasters ensure compliance with various technical and governmental mandates. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Audio, Calm Act, Eyeheight, levels, loudness control, mandates, specs, Wohler Technologies
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by Michael Grotticelli December 12th, 2011
 Mike Grotticelli To keep up with the times, cameras, switchers, routers and other production equipment have gotten smaller and less expensive, yet more fully featured than ever before. Technology is not going away, it’s getting smarter and better suited to what’s really needed in the field, in the studio, or wherever television is produced and distributed.
I regularly have conversations with vendors and broadcasters where we discuss what they are thinking as they try to navigate a highly competitive time. “Tech In Your Ear” is a new blog focusing on technology innovations (some still in prototype form) as well as vendors’ perspectives on how they are developing and bringing those solutions to the broadcast and content distribution customer.
Twice a week I’ll report on important information that could help you develop infrastructure plans and business models to achieve operational and financial success. I’m looking forward to hearing from our readers and encourage everyone to make this blog a platform for interactive discussion.
If you’re wondering about the latest industry buzz, that’s a “Tech In Your Ear.”
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Tags: Audio, business, ENG, HDTV, Infrastructure, innovation, News, Production, solutions, Storage & Networking, Technology
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