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From the Editors
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News and trend stories from TV Technology editors and correspondents.
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Omneon Heads HBO Asia Upgrade
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by Brian Smith, July 11, 2008
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Staff reporter for TV Technology
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With a consumer base of 31 million subscribers divided among 22 countries, programming efficiency is a must.
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Inside the File System
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by Karl Paulsen, June 11, 2008
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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Storage structures are becoming the “need-to-know” terminologies of the media server world.
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Omneon Intros Reflect Strategy to Stretch
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Server Company Seeks Footprint in Broader Video Market
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by Deborah D. McAdams, May 7, 2008
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Editor-in-Chief, Television Broadcast
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Omneon’s expansion plans were revealed at the 2008 NAB Show in a nondescript room at The Palms Resort.
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Omneon Strives to Ease Workflows
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Booth highlights to include products from Castify acquisition
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by Susan Ashworth, April 7, 2008
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Susan Ashworth is a News Correspondent for TV Technology Magazine.
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Omneon heads to the NAB Show to smooth workflows and help unscramble the sometimes-tricky world of content repurposing.
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Extending the Serial ATA Interface
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by Karl Paulsen, March 3, 2008
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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A drawback, at least for today, is that while eSATA can provide faster transfer rates than USB or FireWire, it requires its own power connector and external supply, something that is being addressed now within the standards community.
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The Makeup of Digital Cinema Server Systems
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by Karl Paulsen, February 6, 2008
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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The entire Digital Cinema System is built upon a data file-based design where all of the content is made up of data stored in files that are organized around the image frames; thus the “file” is the most basic component of the system.
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Basics of the Fibre Channel Standard
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by Karl Paulsen, December 5, 2007
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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The standard of choice for many of the high-performance video media storage platforms is the Fibre Channel (FC), which is more than just switching or a type disk drive interface. FC is a vast set of applications with a depth not unlike those of SCSI, SATA (serial ATA), and other storage device and network technologies.
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Workflow in a Hybrid SD/HD News Production Environment
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by Karl Paulsen, November 5, 2007
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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One of the approaches that broadcasters and news organizations are considering is a hybrid mix of widescreen standard-definition field material coupled with live studio high-definition production.
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Coding for Magnetic Storage Mediums
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by Karl Paulsen, October 2, 2007
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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Under a hard disk drive’s hermetically sealed housing that protects the platters, heads and electronics are some pretty sophisticated components that we’ve all been so accustomed to relying upon.
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Associative Workflow Technologies
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by Karl Paulsen, September 6, 2007
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Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.
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News crews and production departments no longer need to depend strictly on videotape as their sole source for recording media.
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