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

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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

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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

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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

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High Def 25Psf video

Phil Crawley debunks some misconceptions about Psf video Continue reading

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Computer displays – VGA and beyond!

A roundup of the various computer display signal standards and connectors Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Diagnosing faulty fibre splices

Tip for diagnosing faulty fibre optic splices Continue reading

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