The Future of Serial Digital Interfaces (SDI)

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The Future of Serial Digital Interfaces (SDI)

SDI is the acronym for Serial Digital Interface.  It was first standardized by The Society of Motion  Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) in 1989.

It’s a way to connect video devices to each other via coaxial cables and what’s called BNC (Bayonet Neill–Concelman) connectors to move digital signals from one point to another.  The SDI standard provides for video signals as well as multiple channels of embedded audio on a single core wire using bit serial transmission.

Since its standardization in ...

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MAR
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Webcasting Versus Video Conferencing

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Webcasting Versus Video Conferencing

A California State Government Agency recently asked us to compare video conferencing with webcasting and to demonstrate certain capabilities that differentiate the two. We thought that we would share some of this with you.

What are the latest features in Webcasting Technology? What Kind of Interaction and Screen displays are possible?

Webcasting, unlike video conferencing is more like watching television than conducting interactive events with scores of participants. However interactive webcasting (as apart from video conferencing) is available and has been implemented ...

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The FCC, The Internet, and Regulation

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Once again the federal government is trying to find or create some injured party to justify the creation of a new regulatory diktat under the FCC to lay hands on the operation of the Internet. Actually in this case it is probably even worse. The Obama administration may not even care if they find an injured party to justify their desire to regulate something that they do not currently regulate. The Internet since its creation has been largely self regulating. ...

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Finally a Video Storage calculator

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Finally a Video Storage calculator

AJA makes great products for capturing and processing video. We use some of these products and they are bullet proof. But we noticed recently that AJA has now come out with a free app to support video storage calculations. Did we mention that it’s free? We have done these calculations on the backs of napkins in the past and we have made mistakes in our calculations. This little app can be configured for video densities all the way up to ...

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JUL
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Comparing Robotic Cameras to Traditional Video Cameras

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Comparing Robotic Cameras to Traditional Video Cameras

We thought it might be useful to compare Robotic Pro Video Cameras to pro video cameras run by hand since there is a lot of question as to the relative merits of each type of video camera for broadcast purposes. To make a fair comparison we chose to set a common standard for each camera type. In this case each camera must have HD-SDI outputs and have a 20x optical zoom. There are many HD video cameras that fit this ...

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JUL
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Tips for Planning a Live Internet Video Broadcast

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Tips for Planning a Live Internet Video Broadcast

More often than not, planning a live Internet Video broadcast with new clients all will have the same thing in common, a very strong idea of what they want without any consideration for things such as the ability of the venue to support their goals and objectives. It is equally true that they usually have no idea of what best practices are for video broadcasting which can use many of the same techniques as television broadcasts. Every plan ...

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Video SSC News – August 2013

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Some of the stuff we have been doing this past month is fascinating. We did some technically challenging chromakey work for the California Department of Transportation for a public safety PSA to be televised shortly. We will post the clip following its initial air date. We have also been using our creative skills on projects for a variety of commercial and government customers. This month we will begin to integrate for a local television station a new capability to search ...

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