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Chicken Little Blog posting

cris.perdue — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:22:22 GMT

Hi,

In Dick's "The Sky is Falling" blog post, I enjoyed the graphic of the rooster, and would

be interested in using it on a strictly internal Web site for my company. Can you OK

this kind of use of the graphic?

Thanks,

Cris Perdue, Software Engineer

Google, Inc.

This forum is great

akosimachineman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:53:30 GMT

hey guys you can post your feedback about this forum here, your comments reaction etc.

"Change" by Brad Dick (December 31, 2008), history of Broadcast Engineering and the industry

DrKathleenMehlChadwick — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:45:21 GMT

A belated thank you, Brad, for your article "Change" last December. I was delighted to see your mention of the role of my father (Don Mehl) as founding publisher and editor of Broadcast Engineering magazine. By the way, my Dad is alive and well, and same as ever, he is a fascinating source of knowledge ("trivial" and substantive, categorizations that are 'in the eye of the beholder' of course) in many areas of the history of communications technology.

Kathleen Ann Mehl Chadwick, PhD

February 2009 webcast: Engineering project management

asnell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:57:58 GMT

If you missed out on the February 2009 webcast titled "Engineering project management," you can check out the archived version on our Web site. There were a few questions that our presenter John Luff couldn't get to because we ran out of time. You can check out those questions and his answers here on the forum. And if you have any other questions about the topic, please post them here and I'll ask John to respond.

To register for upcoming Broadcast Engineering webinars, visit our signup page.

Thanks!

Multiviewer Evolution. Articket from BroadcastEngineeringWold, January 2009

leitof — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:55:58 GMT

The artickel written by Kevin Jackson Harris Broadcast.

Harris is one of the leading manufactors regarding Multiviewer and they doo very good products, I must say. The artickel was quit good, but I have som few commens to ad on. In my company, we have been using multiscreen for many yers. Starting out with simple quadsplit up to Miranda Kaleido K2 and it all are dooing a quit good job. The Kaleido K2 for instans, is sitting in a studio controleroom for both recording and live productions, and looking ahead for an upgrate to HD, probaly this year, I will remind other studios to analyse cerfully what they need.

The multiviewer has many exelent features but also som disadvantaged:

How can the resolutions be solved? When choosing multiviewer where you for instans are spreading up to 16 sources at one screen, every one can tell, that the resolutiun on a camera preview monitorinput must be very poor, even in SD inviroment.

How can the delay be solved? In most multiviewer you have a delay reatching 2 frames, 2 frames in a show with music it gives a lot of frustrasion, even a talent just talk in to the camera is visible with just 2 frames. Many have tryed to talk me in to making a delay on our audio, but audio is komming in many different ways and it will not solv the problem, that the programe will be cut with a constant 2 frame delay.

I belive, that for production inviroment, this is 2 serious problems that must be solved. I am shure, that all vendores know those problems, but they don't like talk about them.

Do you have any commens on that Kevin Jackson?

Regard

Leif Toftgaard

STL BU using Internet..... Win Media Encoder & Win Media Player .....

mglaser@liradiogroup.com — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:18:53 GMT

I set up WME at the studio and WMP in the Tx site. They stay connected except several times a day the Tx site reports silence for 6+ seconds. The WMP Statistics section shown no issues . I have FIOS to one site, Wireless direct link to another, and DSL to another. The same thing happens at all sites but not usually at the same time. Any ideas?

August 12 webinar titled "Fiber optics: A tutorial on video applications"

asnell — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:59:15 GMT

In case you missed our August webinar on the topic of fiber optics, you can sign up to view the archived version here. The webinar is available free, on-demand for one year.

Our presenter, Bennett Liles, was able to answer most of the audience questions during the Q&A following the presentation, but we ran out of time before getting to one last question. The question was, "What is the best way to split an optical single-mode broadband RF signal to several destinations?"

Following the presentation, Bennett emailed me this response:

The best way to split optical signals is to use an optical distribution amplifier or an OEO optical router. Optical distribution amplifiers can input a signal on one wavelength and output it on another wavelength (wavelength remapping) and replicate the signal up to eight times. Such devices can also be configured with single-mode inputs and multimode outputs, or vice versa.

If you have any other questions for Bennett, please post them here and we'll do our best to follow up.

Thanks!

July 8 webinar titled "Grounding systems: Safety and noise issues"

asnell — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:43:49 GMT

If you missed our July webinar about grounding issues, you can catch it on-demand on our Web site free-of-charge:

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=99741&sessionid=1&key=2365FC51DB2EAFC375DBF6CE8FC5B7A4&sourcepage=register

Due to time constraints, our presenter Richard Reagan was not able to answer all of the attendee questions during the Q&A session. However, he has answered those questions below. If you have more questions, you can post them here in the forum or email Richard at rodeo59@yahoo.com.

June 10 webcast "Automation for engineers: Part II: What to look for when buying"

asnell — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:57:30 GMT

If you missed our June webcast, "Automation for Engineers: Part II: What to look for when buying" the on-demand version is available free of charge here. The presentation was hosted by Sid Guel and sponsored by Omnibus.

We had a couple attendee questions left at the end of the presentation, and you can find answers to those questions below. Also, if you have any additional questions about this webcast, go ahead and post them here!

Sid offers automation consulting, so if you need more help than what's available in this presentation, check out his Web site at www.sgbac.com.

May 13 webcast "IT for Engineers"

asnell — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:21:56 GMT

If you haven't yet checked out our May webcast, "IT for Engineers," you can access it here. The presentation was hosted by Al Kovalick and sponsored by Avocent. It was a great success and generated a lot of questions. Unfortunately, because of time constraints, Al couldn't answer all of your questions during the webcast, but you can find answers to those questions below. Also, if you have any additional questions about this webcast, go ahead and post them here!

Al also has a book called "Video Systems in an IT Environment," which is a great resource about this topic. You can find out more information about Al's book by going to the Web site www.theAVITbook.com.

Feb. 19 webcast "Automation for Engineers Part 1: Types and Applications"

clajoie — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:10:34 GMT

We hope you were able to catch our webcast this month, "Automation for Engineers Part 1: Types and Applications," hosted by Sid Guel of Broadcast Automation Consulting and sponsored by OmniBus. It was a great success and a lot of you had some really good questions. Unfortunately, because of time constraints, Sid wasn't able to get to all of your questions during the webcast, but we sent off your submitted questions and he's answered them. Below, you can find his answers to those questions. Also, if you have any additional questions about this webcast, go ahead and post them here!

If this topic interested you, make sure to check out Sid's next webcast June 10, "Automation for Engineers Part 2: What to Look for when Buying." You can register for webcasts as well as check out our archived webcasts here.

Have any suggestions?

clajoie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:17:31 GMT

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