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Producers Are Writing the Rules on Creating a Steady Stream of High-Def Programming By Peter Caranicas
HD 24/7 is for real. HDNet at a Major League Soccer game.
Skeptics can now move aside. High-definition television — that long-ridiculed stepchild of Congress and the FCC, born as an analog baby, now entering its digital adolescence, is flowering into an energetic young adult, ready to transform television, enhance entertainment — and create jobs.
At least, that's what one multibillion-dollar corporation is betting on as it sets up the infrastructure for a multi-channel, satellite-delivered HD service. The company is Cablevision Systems, which, through its Rainbow DBS satellite division, has launched VOOM, a television service offering an array of 39 high-definition channels to subscribers coast to coast as part of a broad lineup of well over 100 channels — including many in standard-def. Twenty-one of the HD channels are exclusive to VOOM.
HDNet NHL coverage
VOOM is presenting itself as a total replacement for existing satellite and cable services, according to John McKee, senior VP of customer operations. "Our business plan is predicated on the fact that we have the dominant offering of HD services," he explains. "We believe that when people experience HDTV, they won't see any reason to keep their previous providers."
Ten of VOOM's exclusive HD channels are devoted to movie services, showing commercial-free films transferred to HD. Eleven of the channels, however, are exclusive VOOM non-movie HD channels. They are programmed by Rainbow Media Holdings, Cablevision's programming arm, and include an array of commercial-free offerings, all broadcasting in 1080i — the format commonly acknowledged as offering the highest quality available in broadcasting today.
Big Money
Which raises the obvious question: How do you go about producing (and acquiring) thousands of hours of HD programming annually without breaking the bank? The easy answer is that you can break the bank. Rainbow parent Cablevision has very deep pockets — the company generates nearly $4 billion annually.
Although executives have been vague about the costs of starting VOOM, they have not disputed published reports that the company spent at least half a billion dollars to build the satellite, launch it, put a new organization together and get the business off the ground. That doesn't count additional investments in plant, equipment and human resources for production, post-production, and program commissioning.
VOOM coverage of Fashion Week in New York City
Greg Moyer, who has the formal title of president of regional programming for Rainbow Media, is overseeing all original production for VOOM. His specialty, honed by 13 years at Discovery Communications and five at Rainbow, is producing nonfiction information programming.
"My job is to oversee 10 non-movie channels, all of them broadcasting 24/7," he explains. Not counting acquired content, each of these channels is gearing up to produce 200 to 300 hours of original programming per year. "We're talking about thousands of hours of high-def television per year, not even counting news. And we want everything to be shot in HD."
Moyer stresses that the quality of VOOM's audiovisual experience is a high priority. Rainbow's in-house production capability is based on Sony HD cameras and "whenever possible, our choice is to shoot in 1080i," he says. "Also, whenever it's within our control and makes sense for the program, we're going to be mixing to 5.1 surround audio for a full experience."
Rainbow has built what Moyer describes as "one of the largest HD post facilities anywhere," with seven HD-capable Avid suites operating and additional ones to open in 2005. The facility is located at Rainbow's Penn Plaza offices in Manhattan, across the street from Cable-vision-owned Madison Square Garden.
HDNet coverage of the war in Iraq
New York's production and post community is "absolutely agog" with Rainbow's sudden HD activity, says Moyer. But, he adds, not enough people in the area have been trained in HD work. "In six months we've found everybody who knows how to do HD, plus we started training new HD editors. Production outfits all over town have benefited from our start-up."
Calling All Independents
An enterprise as ambitious as VOOM cannot fill all its own production needs internally, so Rainbow is outsourcing work. "We're signing others to shoot on our behalf, and in some cases, finish and post on our behalf," says Moyer. "We're aggressively going out to people with experience in HD and getting them shoot a show in HD, but then edit it in SD, and then we do the conform edit in HD within our environment.
A Dallas HDNet shoot for the True Music show featuring the band Perfect Stranger
"This two-step process," he explains, "is a way to save on costs because the creative decisions are made in a less expensive and bottlenecked environment. We have 17 Avid SD rooms to play with."
Rainbow is also saving money by not upgrading its two SD studios to HD for the time being, since most of its shows do not require a studio base. The only exception is VOOM's HD news channel — dubbed HDN — which is based in a new HD three-camera set housed in the company's Long Island facility.
Another part of Rainbow's strategy for staying cost-efficient is to acquire HD programming rather than produce it. Says Moyer: "We're going into a commissioning model where we go to production companies to bring us their ideas. Or we may have an idea and get them to work for hire. We're open to a number of arrangements."
Moyer notes that "there are people all over the world shooting in HD, and we're trying to find out about them so we can acquire from them and/or co-produce with them if the content matches to any of the channels we've launched."
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Producers Are Writing the Rules on Creating a Steady Stream of High-Def Programming By Peter Caranicas
HD 24/7 is for real. HDNet at a Major League Soccer game.
Skeptics can now move aside. High-definition television — that long-ridiculed stepchild of Congress and the FCC, born as an analog baby, now entering its digital adolescence, is flowering into an energetic young adult, ready to transform television, enhance entertainment — and create jobs.
At least, that's what one multibillion-dollar corporation is betting on as it sets up the infrastructure for a multi-channel, satellite-delivered HD service. The company is Cablevision Systems, which, through its Rainbow DBS satellite division, has launched VOOM, a television service offering an array of 39 high-definition channels to subscribers coast to coast as part of a broad lineup of well over 100 channels — including many in standard-def. Twenty-one of the HD channels are exclusive to VOOM.
HDNet NHL coverage
VOOM is presenting itself as a total replacement for existing satellite and cable services, according to John McKee, senior VP of customer operations. "Our business plan is predicated on the fact that we have the dominant offering of HD services," he explains. "We believe that when people experience HDTV, they won't see any reason to keep their previous providers."
Ten of VOOM's exclusive HD channels are devoted to movie services, showing commercial-free films transferred to HD. Eleven of the channels, however, are exclusive VOOM non-movie HD channels. They are programmed by Rainbow Media Holdings, Cablevision's programming arm, and include an array of commercial-free offerings, all broadcasting in 1080i — the format commonly acknowledged as offering the highest quality available in broadcasting today.
Big Money
Which raises the obvious question: How do you go about producing (and acquiring) thousands of hours of HD programming annually without breaking the bank? The easy answer is that you can break the bank. Rainbow parent Cablevision has very deep pockets — the company generates nearly $4 billion annually.
Although executives have been vague about the costs of starting VOOM, they have not disputed published reports that the company spent at least half a billion dollars to build the satellite, launch it, put a new organization together and get the business off the ground. That doesn't count additional investments in plant, equipment and human resources for production, post-production, and program commissioning.
VOOM coverage of Fashion Week in New York City
Greg Moyer, who has the formal title of president of regional programming for Rainbow Media, is overseeing all original production for VOOM. His specialty, honed by 13 years at Discovery Communications and five at Rainbow, is producing nonfiction information programming.
"My job is to oversee 10 non-movie channels, all of them broadcasting 24/7," he explains. Not counting acquired content, each of these channels is gearing up to produce 200 to 300 hours of original programming per year. "We're talking about thousands of hours of high-def television per year, not even counting news. And we want everything to be shot in HD."
Moyer stresses that the quality of VOOM's audiovisual experience is a high priority. Rainbow's in-house production capability is based on Sony HD cameras and "whenever possible, our choice is to shoot in 1080i," he says. "Also, whenever it's within our control and makes sense for the program, we're going to be mixing to 5.1 surround audio for a full experience."
Rainbow has built what Moyer describes as "one of the largest HD post facilities anywhere," with seven HD-capable Avid suites operating and additional ones to open in 2005. The facility is located at Rainbow's Penn Plaza offices in Manhattan, across the street from Cable-vision-owned Madison Square Garden.
HDNet coverage of the war in Iraq
New York's production and post community is "absolutely agog" with Rainbow's sudden HD activity, says Moyer. But, he adds, not enough people in the area have been trained in HD work. "In six months we've found everybody who knows how to do HD, plus we started training new HD editors. Production outfits all over town have benefited from our start-up."
Calling All Independents
An enterprise as ambitious as VOOM cannot fill all its own production needs internally, so Rainbow is outsourcing work. "We're signing others to shoot on our behalf, and in some cases, finish and post on our behalf," says Moyer. "We're aggressively going out to people with experience in HD and getting them shoot a show in HD, but then edit it in SD, and then we do the conform edit in HD within our environment.
A Dallas HDNet shoot for the True Music show featuring the band Perfect Stranger
"This two-step process," he explains, "is a way to save on costs because the creative decisions are made in a less expensive and bottlenecked environment. We have 17 Avid SD rooms to play with."
Rainbow is also saving money by not upgrading its two SD studios to HD for the time being, since most of its shows do not require a studio base. The only exception is VOOM's HD news channel — dubbed HDN — which is based in a new HD three-camera set housed in the company's Long Island facility.
Another part of Rainbow's strategy for staying cost-efficient is to acquire HD programming rather than produce it. Says Moyer: "We're going into a commissioning model where we go to production companies to bring us their ideas. Or we may have an idea and get them to work for hire. We're open to a number of arrangements."
Moyer notes that "there are people all over the world shooting in HD, and we're trying to find out about them so we can acquire from them and/or co-produce with them if the content matches to any of the channels we've launched."
There's more pages if you want to read everything
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The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z72cjoZP83E
Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
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View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z72cjoZP83E
Direct YouTube Link - AI Can Self-Replicate: Unplugging the Threat! #shorts
TWIT's Website
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TWiT Tech Podcast Network
Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
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TWIT Live Feed
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w5TOILSc_U8
Direct YouTube Link - AI Model Poisoning: The Hidden Threat on Hugging Face #shorts
TWIT's Website
TWIT Live Feed
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Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
www.apple.com
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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