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Category Archives: Broadcast Engineering
BVE 2011 – root6 Training “Tasters” Podcasts
Our head of Systems Integration and broadcast-engineering “Yoda”, Phil Crawley, recently shared some of his vast knowledge in a series of packed out seminars at BVE – “training tasters” of root6′s half-day training courses. If you didn’t manage to squeeze … Continue reading
BVE 2011 “Training Taster” Seminar notes
Podcasts of Phil Crawley’s three “Training Taster” seminars at BVE will be available shortly but in the meantime you can now download the accompanying notes, which are a great resource in their own right: Digital Media Files 101 (Presented on … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcast Engineering, Events, News, SI
Tagged BVE, notes, seminar, training
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Free “Training Tasters” at BVE
As part of the “Where Broadcast meets I.T” Seminars (which root6 is sponsoring again this year) our head of Systems Integration and all round broadcast-engineering-guru, Phil Crawley, will be presenting a free taster of our training courses, every day of … Continue reading
Flashing STOP button in Sony VTRs
If (on a DigiBeta DVW-A500 or similar) you enable menu item 105 – Ref Alarm – the stop lamp will flash under several conditions: The reference signal is solid and the input video is locked but there is more than … Continue reading
High Def 25Psf video
Phil Crawley debunks some misconceptions about Psf video Continue reading
Posted in Broadcast Engineering, SI
Tagged 25Psf, avid, framerate, HD, HDCAM, High-Definition, progressive, sony, symphony, video
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Computer displays – VGA and beyond!
A roundup of the various computer display signal standards and connectors Continue reading
Requirements for Electrical Supply for Systems Integration projects
If we are obliged to power equipment sited in a machine room and/or edit suites we ask that the customer’s project manager and electrician read and sign these notes to ensure a proper configuration for the mains supply. The difference … Continue reading
Double-insulated (class 2) mains equipment
A Class II or double insulated electrical appliance is one which has been designed in such a way that it does not require a safety connection to electrical earth. The basic requirement is that no single failure can result in … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcast Engineering, SI
Tagged class 2, electrical, PAT, power, regulations, safety, shocks, transformer
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Inductive loads and power correction
The power factor of an AC electric power system is defined as the ratio of the real power to the apparent power, and is a number between 0 and 1 (frequently expressed as a percentage, e.g. 0.5 pf = 50% … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcast Engineering, SI
Tagged bay, correction, energy, inductive loads, power
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Diagnosing faulty fibre splices
Tip for diagnosing faulty fibre optic splices Continue reading
