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  WIN a Brand New Samsung Galaxy Tab 3!   Broadcast Beat Magazine is giving away a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 to the winner of a lottery among respondents to our new survey on key technologies like Cloud etc. Everyone will receive a FREE SUMMARY OF RESULTS. We have worked diligently to compile Broadcast & Post-Production matters to ...

  Today, the BBC  launched five new HD simulcast channels, extending its HD services to its more minority output. The new channels – BBC Three HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, CBeebies HD and CBBC HD –  are available on the usual mix of platforms and the rollout sees the Corporation’s roster grow to seven HD channels. All are ...

With the IBC 2013 “Best of Production and Infrastructure” award category under its belt, The Sony AWS-750 Anycast Touch (all-in-one) live content production switcher is certainly “cutting edge” innovative technology! The design and ease of set-up is an absolute highlight point to this advanced product line. The features to this compact and robust live production switcher is the incredible and ...

  In the past, enabling the content creation team to view content wherever the team is located and wherever the content is stored was on the “wish-list” of every media dissemination production house globally.  Now with the evolution of cloud based workflows for the media professional that “wish-list” is now a reality! Quantel, headquartered in Newbury, UK  has been in ...

So, what’s beyond 1080, you ask?  4K, of course!  As much as everyone was excited about the death of analog television in anticipation of digital, the next step that everyone is talking about is 4K digital transmissions.  But don’t rush-out to buy that UHD TV just yet… you may have the ability to receive 4K signals, but there may not ...

The Hitachi SK-HD1500 top of the line HDTV Studio and EFP camera has several nice features, especially capturing video at 1X, 2.5X and 3X the speed while simultaneously providing two different HD outputs. The slow motion feature is pretty exciting considering the flexibility of capturing clear slow motion camera shots and normal video feeds all from a single camera. The camera ...

It is relatively easy to compare the cost savings from a changeover to LED lighting fixtures in an existing television studio: compare the before and after power bill. You can make that same before-and-after power bill comparison when moving into a new building, but it’s also important to look at savings realized in reduction of construction costs. However, there’s a ...

  When looking to scale-out a media storage system, one industry provider is leading the charge. The Harmonic MediaGrid has certain product highlights that should come to mind immediately. The first major point is a cost effective Ethernet based storage system which enables the user to start small and scale out accordingly to fit their facility and production house needs. ...