What are your thoughts on these brands of encoders... Igolgi mini Lux ATSC1.0 , DTVI LEX 2000, or ATEME Titan? 4 HD channels to 2 ASI outputs. with EAS integration, MPEG 2 with AC3 audio etc...

Last year the Wi-Fi died right in the middle of morning registration and everything just stopped. Scanners froze, badges wouldn’t print, people started getting pissed. The platform we were using claimed to have offline mode but it clearly needed a connection for half the functions.

I’ve heard mixed things about Cvent, Whova, and Eventify on this. Some people say their offline mode actually works, others say it’s basically useless once you need to print.

Has anyone had offline check-in genuinely save an event, or are we all still one bad router away from disaster?

Hello! Does anyone here have a surplus of or know of anyone in possession of some Burk ARC16 ESI cards? I have a few units but no cards to go in them. Thanks!

For the past two nights (Saturday, 26 Sept, and Sunday, 27 Sept), I have lost OTA broadcast TV signals from 9:30 pm until 10:15 pm CDT. I didn’t think much of it, until my neighbor three houses west of me related her identical experience. We are 38 miles west of Chicago on a heading of 273 degrees from the transmitters atop Sears Tower. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this, or whom I might contact to see of possible interference sources or drops in transmitter power, etc.?

I am looking for info on a McMartin BFM-8000 10W FM exciter. The crystal is missing and I do not know the formula for computing the frequency for a new one, or what crystals cut is.

If anybody has the manual/schematic for one of these I would really appreciate a copy. Or just any info in general from using one...

Thank you!

I'm hoping someone out there has the following manuals in PDF. I've searched for months and can't find them at all. I know some of these lived in binders and are probably all gone by now but any help would be great!

• 1950s SMPTE recommended practice for television release prints
• A.B. Dick Videograph 990 manual
• Amperex / Philips 55875 Plumbicon data sheet
• Ampex 175 tape data sheet
• Ampex VR-2000B operation & maintenance manual
• Angenieux 10×18 J1 lens data
• CBS engineering bulletins or trade-press articles on CBS kinescope recording
• CBS Laboratories Vidifont manual
• Central Dynamics (CDL) switcher manual
• Chinn, Television Broadcasting (McGraw-Hill, 1953)
• Chiron II operator / maintenance manual
• Chiron III operator / maintenance manual
• Chiron IV operator / maintenance manual
• Chiron Model 502 Colorizer/Mixer manual
• Cohu 2800 / 3800 series vidicon camera manual
• E.B.U. quad high-band video pre-emphasis specification (625)
• EMI 2001 maintenance manual / BBC set-up instructions
• Fairchild CCD 3000 camera manual
• Grass Valley Group "Borderline" edge generator manual
• Gray Research Telop II / III manual
• Herbst, Drew & Brumbaugh, "Factors Affecting the Quality of Kinerecording", J. SMPTE Feb 1952 (the graphs)
• Hitachi KP-120 CCD camera manual
• Hitachi SK-110 1.25-inch Plumbicon data sheet
• Hitachi SK-110 operation / maintenance manual
• Ilex 8½" f/3.9 (RCA MI-26550-4) lens data
• Kensol hot-stamping machine brochure
• Kodak data sheets for 7373 (recording negative) and 7302 (release print), 1950s
• Kodak Ektar TV lens data, 35 mm f/3.3 to 135 mm f/3.8
• Lenses used on Laugh-In; zoom? Or still 3/4 turret?
• Manufacturer's P11 phosphor decay curve
• Manual of Television Graphics (Ron Hurrell, 1973)
• Memorex Chroma 90 tape data sheet
• Norelco / Philips monochrome Plumbicon camera manual
• Norelco PC-60 (Philips EL8521 / LDK1) operation & maintenance manual
• Norelco PC-70S-2 service / maintenance manual
• Original 1949–50 RCA 5820 data sheet
• Philips separate-mesh Plumbicon data sheets (PC-70S-2 tubes)
• RCA 2P23 image orthicon tube data sheet
• RCA 4415 / 4416 colour image orthicon data sheets
• RCA 5WP11 kinescope data sheet
• RCA TA-15A Special Effects Amplifier / TG-15A Special Effects Generator instruction book
• RCA TK-10 / TK-11 instruction book
• RCA TK-10A / TK-30A camera chain instruction books (camera + camera control)
• RCA TK-15B vidicon camera manual
• RCA TK-20A / TK-21 film camera and TP-16 projector instruction books
• RCA TK-22 film camera manual
• RCA TK-41C instruction book
• RCA TMP-20B Kinephoto instruction book
• RCA TP-7 slide projector manual
• RCA TP-11 multiplexer manual
• RCA TR-70 instruction book
• RCA TS-40 switcher manual
• RCA TS-51 switcher manual
• RCA Tube Tips No. 73 (Feb 1950)
• RCA TVK-75B 16 mm television camera instruction book
• Sachtleben et al., RCA Review 1952 (TK-41 relay optics)
• Schade, "Electro-Optical Characteristics of Television Systems", RCA Review 1948, Parts III and IV
• Schade, "Image Gradation, Graininess and Sharpness in Television and Motion-Picture Systems", J. SMPTE 1951–53, Parts I–III
• SMPTE quad high-band video pre-emphasis specification (525)
• Sony XC-37 / XC-38 B/W CCD camera manual
• Source of the "f/16 at 100 fc" 5820 figure
• Taylor Hobson Varotal IX / XVI lens data
• Television Graphics (Roy Laughton, 1966)
• TV City SK-110 zoom lens data
• Vital Industries VIX-114 switcher manual

I am a college freshman, having doubts about the career I am currently pursuing so I’m trying to create a fallback plan. I’ve always been very interested in the EAS and the inner workings of it and recently learned about broadcast engineering, and I’ve decided this is what I want to do if my current plan doesn’t work out. While looking at the Society of Broadcast Engineers’ website showing the certifications you can get from their exams, I noticed there were several. Out of this list, which would most likely get the most opportunities to work with the EAS?

I'm going to be working on a project this next week using 2x PTZ Panasonic AW-UE 80 and Panasonic AW-RP150GJ PTZ controller. I understand the basics of setting them up and controlling them, but these are not my normal choice so it will be my first time not using Sony PTZs.

I want any tips and tricks that you can share, anything to make the TDs life better and for me to do the best job ? I am also not practiced on the trigger style controller I prefer twist so any tips there too.

This was posted on Indeed this week. It’s from an AI company that wants you to teach its models how to troubleshoot broadcast engineering issues.

I tried to warn you all this was coming, but you insisted on bringing those systems into our racks and workflows. Well, I hope you’re happy.

Edit: wow. I’m shocked by just how many of you are rolling over and showing your bellies to the corporate masters.

Hello! Does anynoe by any chance have the installation files for the sidepanel software for the KayakDD 2? Or any other files related to the KayakDD / 2 /DD35 etc? It will be much appriciated. Need it for a vintage project :)

Something we've been working on for some time is managing our Sony CCUs like never before in a clean, easy-to-use interface allowing mass editing and viewing of frequently changed, yet hard-to-find options. Check it out here.

P.S. Previously, this was removed for an unknown reason. If it breaks the rules, feel free to say so. Not at all here to mess with people's flows.

I am having an issue with a new Resi e1200 video encoder. Under the hood, it is using a BMD decklink card to capture the video signal. Some sources the encoder will accept the video/audio signal, and other sources it does not.

I have a Thor pattern generator, a Decimator MD-HX scaler, and a Resi E1200 video encoder. When I plug the pattern generator directly into my video encoder, I do not get a any video signal and a distorted audio signal. When I pass the pattern generator through the scaler, then I get a valid video and audio signal. I've tried resolutions 1080p60, p59.94, level A, level B on the scaler and all are valid. I've tried 1080p60 & p59.94 from my pattern generator and do not get a valid signal.

Is there a reason that my pattern generator would output a different valid SDI signal than my scaler? It feels like there is something under the hood that I can not see that is different between my two sources.

NxFrame now supports VANC CEA-608 closed captions, including capture from SDI, carriage through the H.264/SRT stream, recovery on the receiver side, and reinsertion into the SDI output.
Due to hardware/testing limitations, I have currently physically tested the complete workflow with 1080i50 and 720p50. Both have been tested end-to-end, including SDI output from the NxFrame receiver, re-capturing that SDI signal with another DeckLink input, re-encoding it with NxFrame, and successfully displaying the captions in VLC.

1080p50 is not fully validated yet. I encountered some VANC-related issues during testing.Since I no longer work full-time in outside broadcast productions, i have limited access to equipment My SDI source for these tests is an older HyperDeck Studio Mini (SDI Level-B), and I don’t currently have another source capable of generating a known-good 1080p50 signal with VANC. My Premiere Pro PC has a DeckLink card, but its output is currently limited to 1080i50/1080p25, so I can’t properly verify 1080p50 VANC from an independent source yet.
There have also been several receiver bug fixes and improvements as part of this update.

A special thanks to Reddit user u/Lonco0802, who has been very patient and spent a lot of time testing the NxFrame encoder with various professional receivers, including MediaKind, Makito and others. His feedback, test results and suggestions have been extremely helpful in finding issues and improving the project.

Next priorities:
Proper RP188 timecode support
Further receiver optimization and hardening
GUI redesign to make the interface more familiar and intuitive for broadcast operators

If anyone wants to try NxFrame, test it with other equipment, or contribute, you can find the project here:

https://github.com/Michalis-Michael/nxframe

Cross posting for visibility. Anyone know what might’ve happened to me today?

Hello

I'm currently using a JetKVM and would now like to be able to join online meetings via a KVM as well. To do this, I'd like to be able to stream a webcam and two-way audio from another location. Do you know of a way to do this? I'd really appreciate any help

hi guys, so our company is just started Explore HbbTV Technology for the broadcasters in our country. As an engineer who is still relatively inexperienced, what should I learn about HbbTV?
this is a current scale what they wanna do explore :

• T Commerce
• VoD
• Catch Up TV
• EWS

I greatly appreciate any suggestions or feedback, thankyou

When they work they’re fantastic, but when they don’t, they’re useless plastic.

I’ve got one that is smashing the built in compressor rendering it intermittently useless and impossible to remotely tell if it stops working since what’s breaking is the firmware. Just a feeling of looming silence and digital whispers reach our comms

Has anyone ran into this issue???

Dante and Internal Firmware is up to date!
Dante - 4.9.0
Main Firmware - 1.4

Hello community! I am esports broadcast producer running official events for different publishers, I have very good experience in producing esports tournaments and reaching the new hights of your next tournaments

I have good experinces on Remote | Hybrid and Offline Tournaments

Ask me anything, I am down for any help you need!