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April 23, 2008
Cinegy Workflow for BBC
Siemens selects Cinegy for BBC’s Digital Media Initiative
Siemens IT Solutions and Services has selected the Cinegy workflow suite of products as an essential technology component of the BBC’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI). Cinegy has a long-running global partnership with Siemens and will be expanding this to make the technologies and know-how involved in delivering DMI available to other broadcasters who are considering tackling a similar technical challenge.
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April 10, 2008
AP News production consolidation project
The Associated Press consolidates its D.C. operation
The Associated Press (AP) is one of the world's oldest and largest news organizations, with major offices in London, New York and Washington, D.C., as well as regional offices around the world. The Washington, D.C., operation had two separate K Street locations — just two blocks apart. One was for AP's Washington News Bureau and the other for the Broadcast News Center. In December 2007, AP consolidated the two by moving to a new downtown facility. The layout of the new building, at the corner of 13th Street and L Street, maximizes the editorial, production and administrative synergies for the more than 460 people working there.
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April 03, 2008
Reinventing Captioning and Other Aspects of Accesible Media
Welcome, visitors from Captioning Sucks!
Who we are and what we’re doing
We’re an independent research research project in Toronto. We have one big goal – to research, write, test, and publish a set of standards for four fields of accessible media:
* Captioning (of course)
* Audio description (for blind and visually-impaired people)
* Subtitling
* Dubbing
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April 02, 2008
More detail on HD compression
What Comcast's Crunched HD Looks Like - Todd Spangler - Blog on Multichannel News
In the black art of video compression, the trick is to fool the human visual system into seeing things that aren't there.
All digital video is compressed. The technology that does this removes a lot of data, stripping out visual information in clever ways so it can be packed down, sent over a wire or satellite, then unpacked on the viewing end to a TV set.
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Network Compression
Comcast’s Blurry High Definition Picture - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Not only has Comcast been slowing down Internet users exchanging files with the BitTorrent protocol, it has been quietly reducing the quality of some high definition television networks it carries as well.
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