From the Editors

Omneon is a leading provider of media server and active storage solutions used to support the acquisition, production, management and distribution of digital media content. The company's products allow broadcasters and media production facilities to streamline their workflows and capitalize on the transition to a file-based environment.

With a proven track record of integrating IT and broadcast best practices with advanced system architectures, Omneon has established a leadership position in the market for providing customers with infrastructure solutions that are flexible, scalable, reliable and highly cost-effective.

From the Editors

News and trend stories from TV Technology editors and correspondents.

Associative Workflow Technologies

by Karl Paulsen, September 6, 2007

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

News crews and production departments no longer need to depend strictly on videotape as their sole source for recording media.

Servers Enable Newsroom Workflow Changes

by Karl Paulsen, August 6, 2007

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

The advent of solid-state, optical and magnetic spinning discs for the capture of field content is moving newsroom editorial functions into an improved, high-speed workflow that changes how news is prepared and multipurposed.

Major Media Moves to Tapeless With Omneon

by Staff writers of TV Technology Magazine, July 20, 2007

As many broadcasters migrate to tapeless news production to streamline workflow and provide a better on-air product, Lifetime Entertainment Services and Mexico City’s Grupo Televisa S.A. join the fold with Omneon Video Networks’ MediaGrid storage system and Spectrum servers.

Fitting Metadata Into The Content Life Cycle

by Karl Paulsen, June 5, 2007

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

The importance of these media elements is often catalogued by varying, application-specific sets of information attached to those elements in a variety of means.

Omneon Gives MediaGrid a Mind of its Own

New technology adds transcoding powers to servers

by Deborah D. McAdams, May 3, 2007

Deborah D. McAdams is the Managing Editor of TV Technology Magazine.

2007 is the year Omneon endowed its servers with sentience.

Omneon Expands Features for HD

Server company aims for smaller markets

by Susan Ashworth, April 4, 2007

Susan Ashworth is a News Correspondent for TV Technology Magazine.

Omneon Video Networks comes to NAB2007 with a twofold goal: to put its modular video server architecture in the hands of smaller-market stations, as well as debut new HD tools that create the first integrated end-to-end Omneon HD ingest and play-out solution.

Bandwidth Basics: Looking at Storage From a 3D Perspective

From a scalability perspective, anytime that a system does need to grow, the balance of all three of these dimensions must be considered.

by Karl Paulsen, March 6, 2007

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

The introduction of Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and networked storage into video server technologies opened the door even wider to a newer generation of multiformat video delivery and content storage capabilities.

Content Life Cycle III: The Hidden Agenda

Managing video on a file level is not a proven science with a universal solution.

by Karl Paulsen, February 9, 2007

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

Video servers steadily add feature sets that help improve the workflow of a broadcast facility.

Content Life Cycle II: Time To Address a Real Need

The computing horsepower necessary to get all the bits to align properly without noticeable aberrations or reductions in image quality is enormous.

by Karl Paulsen, December 7, 2006

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

The path of electronically generated media files throughout a broadcast plant touches many elements, passing through various server platforms and on to viewers through a growing number of distribution channels.

The Content Life Cycle

by Karl Paulsen, November 6, 2006

Karl Paulsen is chief technology officer for Azcar. He is a Fellow in the SMPTE and a SBE Life Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer.

Media servers, storage and networking technologies for television systems historically follow in the footsteps of IT systems. The latest global revolution in IT storage is now driving content flow for television systems. As such, our industry finds itself continually exploring new dimensions for physical storage and storage management philosophies.