Byline: Ned Soseman
When videotape was the only electronic storage media available, there were two technical workflows at television stations. One was the well-worn, coffee-stained path from news edit stations to the news playback VCRs. The other was the daily path around the station taken by spot reels and program videotapes. Tapes were generally hand-delivered to the front desk or mail room, logged in by traffic and moved to the tape room for playback.
Today, instead of pushing a cart full of videotapes or racing down hallways with breaking story in one hand and b-roll in the other, we're pushing files across a network. The technology is not unlike that used to create this newsletter and push it into your e-mail box. Broadcasters are moving as quickly as possible away from tape towards integrating IT and commodity-level products into a new file-based broadcast workflow.
Gone with analog videotape and VTRs are the once all-important technical specifications, such as signal to noise, horizontal resolution, depth of modulation and head life. They've been replaced with bandwidth, quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE). IT technology virtually guarantees that …
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