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The Engineers Bench Podcast

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The Engineers Bench Podcast

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The Engineers Bench Podcast

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Hugh and Phil talk about some tips for broadcast video.Go to the website for a PDF of the notes.
Hugh and Phil talk about some tips and get-out-of-gaol-free cards with respect to broadcast audio.Go to the website for a PDF of the notes.
Hugh and Phil talk about KVM-over-IP systems with particular reference to Teradici and Phil's favourite manufacturer Amulet Hotkey. They also go over the basics of encryption with symmetric and public-key crypto.
Phil and Hugh talk about modern picture quality analysis and why good old fashioned colour bars are of little use to the modern broadcast engineer!
Hugh and Phil go over the practise of using a 3D LUT (look up table) to get OLEDs & LCD televisions closer to the Rec.709 gamut. 
Hugh and Phil go over the principles of the Discrete Cosine Transform as applied to video compression and the differences between IFrame and long-GOP codecs.
Hugh and Phil talk about optical multiplexing as well as new methods for accurately testing fibre cables. A few tips on basic fibre cleaning as well.
Simon Quill of Bryant Unlimited and Phil go over their range of network controlled, intelligently monitored power distribution units
Phil & Hugh go over a few tips and tricks for using MS Excel in the design of film & TV facilities
Phil & Tim Taylor go over some of the features of the DD-WRT router firmware and how they can be used to secure a home network
Hugh and Phil are joined by Rupert Watson of Root6 to talk SANs, NASs and shared storage
Phil continues his conversation with Hugh going over some of the lower-level protocols that are used in IP networks.
Phil goes over OFCOM, DPP, Harding and other aspects of PSE
Phil and Hugh discuss the coming 4k and 8k TV standard as well as pixel-less video.
Hugh and Phil go through some of the principles of traditional video QC using the Tektronix WFM and WVR series test sets.
Hugh and Phil go over some of the principles of file-based QC for television deliverables.
Phil and Hugh are joined by Laurence Claydon for an introduction to digital cinema.
This part 1 (of a two-parter) covers the fundamentals of the protocols and practises that drive all internet-derived networks.
Hugh and I go into the details of RS232C and how it is still used in broadcast engineering for configuration and test.
Hugh and Phil talk about the need for custom made boxes and panels. They talk about the metalwork as well as circuit details used and wind up with a review of the Arduino platform
Hugh and Phil take a look at display standards starting with HD/SDi and working through analogue VGA through to DisplayPort.Hugh talks about some of the work he's been doing with Skillset certifying University TV and Media courses. 
Hugh and I continue our discussion of audio and make particular mention of cabling for TV facilities.
Hugh and Phil go over the fundementals of sound and recorded audio in the first of a two-parter
After the intro to colourimetry Hugh and I talk about calibrating monitors for film and TV use.
Hugh and Phil lay the groundwork for the next podcast about monitor calibration. This episode concerns perception of colour in TV
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