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NAB Notes

Change is a constant for the NAB show, and its international counterpart IBC, because broadcast is an industry ruled by committees, standards, laws, regulations, and humans. Broadcast is based on semi-miraculous technologies: radio waves, television transmission, digital transmission, and now the Internet. It’s an industry whose practitioners engage in cut-throat competition enabled by cooperative alliances.  Much ado about cables in ...

Kathleen Maher

Change is a constant for the NAB show, and its international counterpart IBC, because broadcast is an industry ruled by committees, standards, laws, regulations, and humans. Broadcast is based on semi-miraculous technologies: radio waves, television transmission, digital transmission, and now the Internet. It’s an industry whose practitioners engage in cut-throat competition enabled by cooperative alliances.  Much ado about cables in 2019. (Photo by Joris Robijn/Wikipedia)   This year, at NAB, the industry is somewhere in the middle of a transformation that may look like just another network hardware transition, as SDI gives way to IP, except that nobody thinks that.
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