Top Tips - Video; The Engineer's Bench podcast
Hugh and Phil talk about some tips for broadcast video . Go to the website for a PDF of the notes.
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20 of 25 episodesTop Tips; Audio - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
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...
KVM-over-IP and Data Encryption - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Hugh and Phil talk about KVM-over-IP systems with particular reference to Teradici and Phil's favourite manufacturer Amulet Hotkey. They als...
Beyond Colour Bars - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Phil and Hugh talk about modern picture quality analysis and why good old fashioned colour bars are of little use to the modern broadcast en...
TV Colourimetry 3 - using LUTs for monitor calibration - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
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.
Video Compression 101 - The Engineer's Bench podcast
Hugh and Phil go over the principles of the Discrete Cosine Transform as applied to video compression and the differences between IFrame and...
Fibre 102; CWDM & encircled flux - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Hugh and Phil talk about optical multiplexing as well as new methods for accurately testing fibre cables. A few tips on basic fibre cleaning...
Intelligent Power Distribution Strips - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Simon Quill of Bryant Unlimited and Phil go over their range of network controlled, intelligently monitored power distribution units
System Design with Excel - The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Phil & Hugh go over a few tips and tricks for using MS Excel in the design of film & TV facilities
DD-WRT and open source router firmware - The Engineer's Bench podcast
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
Photosensitive Epilepsy - The Engineer's Bench podcast
Phil goes over OFCOM, DPP, Harding and other aspects of PSE
Shared storage for Film & TV; The Engineer's Bench podcast
Hugh and Phil are joined by Rupert Watson of Root6 to talk SANs, NASs and shared storage
Ultra-high-definition television; The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Phil and Hugh discuss the coming 4k and 8k TV standard as well as pixel-less video.
Traditional video QC with Tektronix; The Engineer's Bench podcast
Hugh and Phil go through some of the principles of traditional video QC using the Tektronix WFM and WVR series test sets.
File-based QC; The Engineer's Bench podcast
Hugh and Phil go over some of the principles of file-based QC for television deliverables.
Digital Cinema; The Engineer's Bench Podcast
Phil and Hugh are joined by Laurence Claydon for an introduction to digital cinema .
TCP & Networks part 2 - Protocols; The Engineer's Bench podcast
Phil continues his conversation with Hugh going over some of the lower-level protocols that are used in IP networks.
TCP & Networking 101; The Engineer's Bench podcast
This part 1 (of a two-parter) covers the fundamentals of the protocols and practises that drive all internet-derived networks.
RS232 - Fifty years and still going strong; The Engineer's Bench podcast
Hugh and I go into the details of RS232C and how it is still used in broadcast engineering for configuration and test.
Custom Hardware part 1; The Engineer's Bench Podcast
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 u...