A select collection of papers from the 65th NAB Broadcast Engingeering Conference (Not all sessions are included, check Table of Contents for details)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
NAB BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONFERENCE OPENING SESSION
THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION BROADCASTING
Live Sports Production of 22.2 Multi-Channel Sound for Super Hi-Vision TV – Tsuyoshi Hinata, Kensuke Irie, Yuichi Ootakeyama, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Outside Broadcast Division
Captioning for Next Generation Broadcasting – Sam Pemberton, Softel
DVB Second Generation Standards: Commercial and Technical Drivers – Peter Siebert, DVB Project Office
Current Status and Future Prospects of Initiatives for Disaster Prevention Information Dissemination in Data Broadcasting – Norio Sasaki, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
THE FUTURE OF RADIO BROADCASTING
A New Generation of Radio Production and Delivery Tools – Pierre Robidoux, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada
Media on the Move: From Applets to Craplets – Andrew Janitschek, Radio Free Asia
Migrating Radio Call-in Talkshows to Wideband Audio – Tom Hartnett, Comrex
The Impact of Consumer Devices on Radio Content Development and Engineering – Dwight C. Douglas, RCS
IMPLEMENTING MOBILE TV
Updating the STL for Mobile DTV Operations – S. Merrill Weiss, Merrill Weiss Group LLC
The Promise of Mobile DTV – Aldo Cugnini and Louis Libin, Vimionix; Robert Rast, Tsar Digital
Experimental Relation Between Signal Power and Service Level for Mobile DTV – Francisco Peres, Ana Eliza Faria e Silva, Leonardo dos Anjos Chaves, Giaucio Siqueira, TV Globo, Brazil and PUC, Brazil
IMPROVING HD RADIO
PAPR and Asymmetrical Sidebands Field Results: HD RadioTM Coverage Technologies – John Holt, WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio; John Kean, National Public Radio; Hal Kneller, Nautel
New Developments in Master FM Antenna Systems – Keith Pelletier, SPX Communications Technology
Using the IBOC Quality Metric to Optimize the Transmission System for FM HD Radio Reception – Brian Walker, Nautel
FM Transmitter Cooling Technologies and Tradeoffs – Gary Liebisch, Nautel
CLOUD BASED TECHNOLOGIES FOR BROADCAST
Does Cloud Computing Matter? Or, Is There a Cloud in Your Future? – John Hoehn, IBM Media and Entertainment
TV LOUDNESS AND LIPSYNC
ITU-R BS.1770 Revisited – Thomas Lund, TC Electronic A/S
Taming TV Audio Loudness – Martin Winsemius, Wohler Technologies, Inc.
MISSION CRITICAL IT FOR BROADCAST
XML, WSDL, SOAP, SOA and REST: Acronyms Explained Plainly – Paul Turner, Omneon, now part of Harmonic Inc.
Wireless HD Secure Streaming Media Application and Case Study – Joseph Gaucher, Haivision Network Video
10 Gigabit Networking for Audio and Video Applications – Stephen Lampen, Belden
Transferring Audio Over an Imperfect IP Network – John Lindsay, APT
When Simple Isn’t That Simple: Using SNMP in Broadcast Facility Control – Tony Peterle, WorldCast Systems Inc.
Building Redundancy and Resilience into IP Based Broadcast Networks – Ian Trow, Harmonic Inc.
Real-time Professional Broadcast Signals Over IP Networks – Leigh Whitcomb, Harris Corporation
RADIO ENGINEERING FORUM
AM Directional Antenna Pattern Bandwidth Performance Improvement Using Power Dissipation within the Phasing and Coupling System – Ronald Rackley, du Treil, Lundin & Rackley, Inc.
Antenna Base Region Geometry and Voltage Sampling Techniques for Moment Method AM Directional Antenna Proofs – Benjamin F. Dawson, III, Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers
Test and Evaluation of an AM Directional Antenna Tower Base Voltage Sampling System and MOM Proof Methodology for the WAOK Radio Array Utilizing a Mix of Guyed and Self-Supported Towers – Donald Crain, M. Donald Crain, Inc.; Robert D. LaFore, CBS Radio; Larry Arnold, James R Moser, Thomas F. King, Kintronic Laboratories, Inc.
Permitting Overview KRKO-AM: 50 kW Upgrade and New Transmitter Facility Everett, Washington – Andrew Skotdal, S-R Broadcasting Co., Inc.
THE IMPACT OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
The Impact of Innovative Technologies: Trial to Scale – Mark Johnson, Harris Corporation
Development of High Performance Video Codec for Super Hi-Vision – Yoshiaki Shishikui, Kazuhisa Iguchi and Shinichi Sakaida, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and Kimihiko Kazui and Akira Nakagawa, Research Center for Image Processing and Biometrics Technologies, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Embedded TV: Creating a New Digital Ecosystem for Broadcasters – Jeremy Edmonds, ActiveVideo Networks
A Study and Comparison of Efficiency Enhancement Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers – Geoffrey Mendenhall, Harris Corporation
RADIO ENGINEERING FORUM II
Field Trials of Digital Radio Technologies: DAB, DAB+, T-DMB Audio, HD-Radio and DRM+ – Yong-Tae Lee, Sora Park, Myung-Sun Baek, Young-Hoon Lee, Gun Kim, Bo-Mi Lim, and Yun-Jeong Song, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Performance Analysis and Field Measurements with the Digital Radio Broadcasting Standard DRM+ Digital Radio Broadcasting Standard – Jens Schroeder, Albert Waal, Stefan Galler, RFmondial and Friederike Maier and Andrej Tissen, Institute of Communications Technology, Leibniz University of Hannover
Bend Radius – Stephen Lampen, Belden
A New Approach to Solid-State High-Power FM Amplifiers – Timothy B. Anderson, Harris Corporation
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES FOR TELEVISION
Advanced Compression Workflow for Multi-Stream Networks – Are Olafsen, Thomson Video Networks
Broadcasting and Streaming Live and File-Based Video to Multiple Platforms over IP Networks – Bob Hildeman, Streambox, Inc.
3DTV
Quality Assurance for 3DTV – Stefan Winkler and Jeremy Bennington, Cheetah Technologies
General-Purpose 3D Video Signal Processing – Paul Briscoe, Harris Corporation
3DTV and the Challenges for Traditional Terrestrial Broadcasters: Will It Be Possible to Combine HD, Mobile TV, Interactivity and The "New" 3D Services in a Single UHF Channel? – Gustavo Marra, ATEME Inc.
Efficient Delivery of 3D-TV for Broadcast Systems – David Clewer Ericsson Television Limited and T. Rusert, Ericsson Research
3D Intensity Adjustment of a Stereo Content to Improve Quality of Experience – Didier Doyen, Thierry Borel, Sylvain Thiébaud, Cédric Thébault and Philippe Robert and Laurent Blonde, Technicolor R&I, France
IMPLEMENTING REGULATORY ISSUES FOR ENGINEERS
Lemons into Lemonade: Leveraging EAS/CAP into Your Revenue Stream – William Robertson, Digital Alert Systems
Transforming Closed Captioned Television Video into Closed Captioned Web Video (To Comply with the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act) – Giovanni Galvez and Jason Livingston, CPC – Closed Captioning (Computer Prompting & Captioning Company)
INTERNET ENABLED RADIO AND TELEVISION
Advanced Hybrid Broadcast and Broadband System for Enhanced Broadcasting Services – Akitsugu Baba, Kinji Matsumura, Sigeaki Mitsuya, Masaru Takechi, Yasuaki Kanatsugu, Hiroyuki Hamada and Hisakazu Katoh, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
Weather in a Multi-Screen, Multi-Channel World – Terry Casey, Weather Central
Tapping into the Blu-ray Potential – Petr Peterka, Verimatrix and Hervé Utheza, Related Content Database Inc.
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS – PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION
Case Histories in Lightning Protection Communications Facilities – David Brender, Copper Development Association Inc.
Proactive Transmitter Service and Support Strategies – Kevin Rodgers, Nautel
Master FM Antenna at the Empire State Building – Joe Giardina, DSI RF Systems
Implementation of N+1 Technology for Improved Cost Efficiency While Maintaining Service Integrity – Wendell Lonergan, Nautel
RDS IMPLEMENTATION
Maximizing the Use of RDS Bandwidth – Tony Peterle, WorldCast Systems Inc.
Understanding and Optimizing RDS for a New Generation of Receivers – Alan Jurison, Citadel Broadcasting
GREEN TECHNOLOGY
THE IMPACT OF CONSUMER DEVICES
Time to Get Serious with Interactive TV – Stuart Lipoff, IP Action Partners Inc.
IMPROVING MOBILE TV RECEPTION
New Advertisement Opportunities in Mobile Environments – Carolina Duca Novaes, Danillo Ono and Edson Moura, Globo TV Network (Globo Communicações e Participações S.A.)
SPECIAL ADDITION TO RADIO ENGINEERING FORUM Convert Your RPU System to an IFB System – Bill Ruck, Broadcast Engineer
SPECIAL SECTION NAB FASTROAD PROJECT REPORTS
FM HD RadioTM Filed Performance with Unequal Digital Sideband Carrier Levels
Power Efficient Broadcast Facility Transmission Design
NAB BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONFERENCE OPENING SESSION
THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION BROADCASTING
Live Sports Production of 22.2 Multi-Channel Sound for Super Hi-Vision TV – Tsuyoshi Hinata, Kensuke Irie, Yuichi Ootakeyama, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Outside Broadcast Division
Captioning for Next Generation Broadcasting – Sam Pemberton, Softel
DVB Second Generation Standards: Commercial and Technical Drivers – Peter Siebert, DVB Project Office
Current Status and Future Prospects of Initiatives for Disaster Prevention Information Dissemination in Data Broadcasting – Norio Sasaki, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
THE FUTURE OF RADIO BROADCASTING
A New Generation of Radio Production and Delivery Tools – Pierre Robidoux, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada
Media on the Move: From Applets to Craplets – Andrew Janitschek, Radio Free Asia
Migrating Radio Call-in Talkshows to Wideband Audio – Tom Hartnett, Comrex
The Impact of Consumer Devices on Radio Content Development and Engineering – Dwight C. Douglas, RCS
IMPLEMENTING MOBILE TV
Updating the STL for Mobile DTV Operations – S. Merrill Weiss, Merrill Weiss Group LLC
The Promise of Mobile DTV – Aldo Cugnini and Louis Libin, Vimionix; Robert Rast, Tsar Digital
Experimental Relation Between Signal Power and Service Level for Mobile DTV – Francisco Peres, Ana Eliza Faria e Silva, Leonardo dos Anjos Chaves, Giaucio Siqueira, TV Globo, Brazil and PUC, Brazil
IMPROVING HD RADIO
PAPR and Asymmetrical Sidebands Field Results: HD RadioTM Coverage Technologies – John Holt, WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio; John Kean, National Public Radio; Hal Kneller, Nautel
New Developments in Master FM Antenna Systems – Keith Pelletier, SPX Communications Technology
Using the IBOC Quality Metric to Optimize the Transmission System for FM HD Radio Reception – Brian Walker, Nautel
FM Transmitter Cooling Technologies and Tradeoffs – Gary Liebisch, Nautel
CLOUD BASED TECHNOLOGIES FOR BROADCAST
Does Cloud Computing Matter? Or, Is There a Cloud in Your Future? – John Hoehn, IBM Media and Entertainment
TV LOUDNESS AND LIPSYNC
ITU-R BS.1770 Revisited – Thomas Lund, TC Electronic A/S
Taming TV Audio Loudness – Martin Winsemius, Wohler Technologies, Inc.
MISSION CRITICAL IT FOR BROADCAST
XML, WSDL, SOAP, SOA and REST: Acronyms Explained Plainly – Paul Turner, Omneon, now part of Harmonic Inc.
Wireless HD Secure Streaming Media Application and Case Study – Joseph Gaucher, Haivision Network Video
10 Gigabit Networking for Audio and Video Applications – Stephen Lampen, Belden
Transferring Audio Over an Imperfect IP Network – John Lindsay, APT
When Simple Isn’t That Simple: Using SNMP in Broadcast Facility Control – Tony Peterle, WorldCast Systems Inc.
Building Redundancy and Resilience into IP Based Broadcast Networks – Ian Trow, Harmonic Inc.
Real-time Professional Broadcast Signals Over IP Networks – Leigh Whitcomb, Harris Corporation
RADIO ENGINEERING FORUM
AM Directional Antenna Pattern Bandwidth Performance Improvement Using Power Dissipation within the Phasing and Coupling System – Ronald Rackley, du Treil, Lundin & Rackley, Inc.
Antenna Base Region Geometry and Voltage Sampling Techniques for Moment Method AM Directional Antenna Proofs – Benjamin F. Dawson, III, Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers
Test and Evaluation of an AM Directional Antenna Tower Base Voltage Sampling System and MOM Proof Methodology for the WAOK Radio Array Utilizing a Mix of Guyed and Self-Supported Towers – Donald Crain, M. Donald Crain, Inc.; Robert D. LaFore, CBS Radio; Larry Arnold, James R Moser, Thomas F. King, Kintronic Laboratories, Inc.
Permitting Overview KRKO-AM: 50 kW Upgrade and New Transmitter Facility Everett, Washington – Andrew Skotdal, S-R Broadcasting Co., Inc.
THE IMPACT OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
The Impact of Innovative Technologies: Trial to Scale – Mark Johnson, Harris Corporation
Development of High Performance Video Codec for Super Hi-Vision – Yoshiaki Shishikui, Kazuhisa Iguchi and Shinichi Sakaida, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and Kimihiko Kazui and Akira Nakagawa, Research Center for Image Processing and Biometrics Technologies, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Embedded TV: Creating a New Digital Ecosystem for Broadcasters – Jeremy Edmonds, ActiveVideo Networks
A Study and Comparison of Efficiency Enhancement Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers – Geoffrey Mendenhall, Harris Corporation
RADIO ENGINEERING FORUM II
Field Trials of Digital Radio Technologies: DAB, DAB+, T-DMB Audio, HD-Radio and DRM+ – Yong-Tae Lee, Sora Park, Myung-Sun Baek, Young-Hoon Lee, Gun Kim, Bo-Mi Lim, and Yun-Jeong Song, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Performance Analysis and Field Measurements with the Digital Radio Broadcasting Standard DRM+ Digital Radio Broadcasting Standard – Jens Schroeder, Albert Waal, Stefan Galler, RFmondial and Friederike Maier and Andrej Tissen, Institute of Communications Technology, Leibniz University of Hannover
Bend Radius – Stephen Lampen, Belden
A New Approach to Solid-State High-Power FM Amplifiers – Timothy B. Anderson, Harris Corporation
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES FOR TELEVISION
Advanced Compression Workflow for Multi-Stream Networks – Are Olafsen, Thomson Video Networks
Broadcasting and Streaming Live and File-Based Video to Multiple Platforms over IP Networks – Bob Hildeman, Streambox, Inc.
3DTV
Quality Assurance for 3DTV – Stefan Winkler and Jeremy Bennington, Cheetah Technologies
General-Purpose 3D Video Signal Processing – Paul Briscoe, Harris Corporation
3DTV and the Challenges for Traditional Terrestrial Broadcasters: Will It Be Possible to Combine HD, Mobile TV, Interactivity and The "New" 3D Services in a Single UHF Channel? – Gustavo Marra, ATEME Inc.
Efficient Delivery of 3D-TV for Broadcast Systems – David Clewer Ericsson Television Limited and T. Rusert, Ericsson Research
3D Intensity Adjustment of a Stereo Content to Improve Quality of Experience – Didier Doyen, Thierry Borel, Sylvain Thiébaud, Cédric Thébault and Philippe Robert and Laurent Blonde, Technicolor R&I, France
IMPLEMENTING REGULATORY ISSUES FOR ENGINEERS
Lemons into Lemonade: Leveraging EAS/CAP into Your Revenue Stream – William Robertson, Digital Alert Systems
Transforming Closed Captioned Television Video into Closed Captioned Web Video (To Comply with the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act) – Giovanni Galvez and Jason Livingston, CPC – Closed Captioning (Computer Prompting & Captioning Company)
INTERNET ENABLED RADIO AND TELEVISION
Advanced Hybrid Broadcast and Broadband System for Enhanced Broadcasting Services – Akitsugu Baba, Kinji Matsumura, Sigeaki Mitsuya, Masaru Takechi, Yasuaki Kanatsugu, Hiroyuki Hamada and Hisakazu Katoh, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
Weather in a Multi-Screen, Multi-Channel World – Terry Casey, Weather Central
Tapping into the Blu-ray Potential – Petr Peterka, Verimatrix and Hervé Utheza, Related Content Database Inc.
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS – PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION
Case Histories in Lightning Protection Communications Facilities – David Brender, Copper Development Association Inc.
Proactive Transmitter Service and Support Strategies – Kevin Rodgers, Nautel
Master FM Antenna at the Empire State Building – Joe Giardina, DSI RF Systems
Implementation of N+1 Technology for Improved Cost Efficiency While Maintaining Service Integrity – Wendell Lonergan, Nautel
RDS IMPLEMENTATION
Maximizing the Use of RDS Bandwidth – Tony Peterle, WorldCast Systems Inc.
Understanding and Optimizing RDS for a New Generation of Receivers – Alan Jurison, Citadel Broadcasting
GREEN TECHNOLOGY
THE IMPACT OF CONSUMER DEVICES
Time to Get Serious with Interactive TV – Stuart Lipoff, IP Action Partners Inc.
IMPROVING MOBILE TV RECEPTION
New Advertisement Opportunities in Mobile Environments – Carolina Duca Novaes, Danillo Ono and Edson Moura, Globo TV Network (Globo Communicações e Participações S.A.)
SPECIAL ADDITION TO RADIO ENGINEERING FORUM Convert Your RPU System to an IFB System – Bill Ruck, Broadcast Engineer
SPECIAL SECTION NAB FASTROAD PROJECT REPORTS
FM HD RadioTM Filed Performance with Unequal Digital Sideband Carrier Levels
Power Efficient Broadcast Facility Transmission Design
