It will eventually cost a lot more to fix a seized engine.
The broadcast industry has adapted to many technology changes over the last 30 years… from composite to component, from analogue to digital, from SD to HD and now to UHD. We have adopted IP technologies for file distribution and welcomed the growing number of ways in which our customers can view our content. Each of these was challenging and in the end allowed the industry to become more productive and deliver even better content.
The adoption of Software Defined Architectures offers many benefits in cost and flexibility to almost any broadcaster or media production company, but it also presents some new challenges which broadcasters can best overcome, as they have always done, through collaboration and discussion with their trusted supply-side partners.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
GEORGE BOATH
After starting his career in the telecom industry, George spent 27 years selling and marketing broadcast video technology products – first with Tektronix, moving on to Grass Valley Group, then running a successful sales and marketing consultancy. George has served as European Sales Manager for Tektronix Video Server products, Director of Marketing for GVG Europe, Director of Sales for Telestream in EMEA, and VP of International Sales for Telestream’s Enterprise product line.
George holds a B.Sc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester.
SGL FlashNet Lite, Camera, Action…
Lee Sheppard,
Director of Product Management, SGL
As the curtain rises on NAB New York 2016, SGL is preparing its new entry-level archive system FlashNet Lite, which takes centre stage on booth 1219. FlashNet Lite comes in four configurations: FL Disk, FL Tape, FL Hybrid and FL Optical Disk, providing options for content storage that is disk only, tape only, optical disk or a combination of disk and tape. FL Hybrid is upgradeable to 50TB of disk support, two tape drives and 100 slots with one server. This gives nearly 600TB capacity with LTO7 tapes.
Running on a single server node, FlashNet Lite can grow as the customer’s archive expands. FlashNet Lite includes important FlashNet tools
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