In the near future, if you’re planning to buy some equipment to feed audio back to a radio or TV station, you might want to ask the manufacturer of that equipment if it is ACIP compliant. ISDN lines are disappearing in some countries (as soon as 2010 in some places) and so broadcasters are starting [...]
HD Radio in trouble? I agree with Lou Josephs in Washington that the take-up of HD Radio hasn’t been what observers expected. Now comes news that there are all kinds of skywave inteference problems which have prevented some stations switching it on. The backers of HD Radio have opened a sort of McDonald’s Hamburger University, [...]
At IBC 2007, I bumped into a French company called Alden that were marketing a steerable satellite dish for people in Eastern and Southern Europe who live too far away from an ADSL hub. It is a satellite TV and satellite Internet combination. The initital outlay of around 3500 Euro involves the purchase of a [...]
Are you a business professional who meets International clients for business? Do you travel frequently to Germany? Business Communication is very much important in our competitive world and you could achieve it with the help of quality Notebook Computer from Dell. Why do you have to prefer Dell when there are so many other Laptops [...]
Get past the intro of the Kats Cast to see excellent camera work at the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam and what “Mike” (Versteeg) is up to with a Vidblaster Pro. The price of this software is amazingly low – just under 78 Euro. Certainly made for love, not the money. No commercial connection with these guys…just [...]
Perhaps because my original work was in radio, I tend to pay more attention to music and dialogue in video than most video editors I know. I have collected production music for years. I note that the racks of CDs in many video studios though are disappearing – partly because they are a magnet for [...]
Saw this new version of Mayah’s codec for in the field reporting at IBC 2007. In an earlier post I said I thought the price would be near 4000 Euro including tax. But Uwe Flatter from Mayah Germany reports that it will be 3350, with an introductory price of 2450 Euro for orders before November [...]
New portable recorder recorder out from Sony, retailing in the USA for just under US$600. To quote from the brochure… The PCM-D50 is a 96 kHz/24-bit recorder fitted with two-position (X-Y or Wide) stereo microphones, 4 GB of internal flash memory and a Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo™ slot (for additional storage). The body of the [...]
It would seem my comments on this, and other blogs, about firewalls in China and some problems I see ahead for the Olympic Games in 2008 (the really hot weather) have meant that all the websites I operate cannot be accessed from inside China. Firewalled but surviving! At least they are consistent. Look at the [...]
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