Video—For Here or to Go?: Using Compression and Packetization in Television Production Facilities

There is considerable discussion today about the compression and packetization of video signals for broadcast distribution and emission. This paper concentrates on the next candidate area for these techniques, broadcast-grade production, and highlights the economic and technical advantages they will bring into this area. Some of the issues may be easier to resolve than in broadcast emission, because the interconnection network will be more under the control of the user. Other issues will be harder, because of more stringent quality requirements. — The next ten years will see a change from traditional hard-wired interconnection methods toward alternative technologies such as ATM, imported from the telecommunications and computer industries, but the broadcast production industry will have to assert its own requirements very strongly to make these alternatives succeed. A successful outcome will be the integration of compressed, uncompressed, real-time, and non-real-time video traffic within a common interconnection medium.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1995-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J17665