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On the cover: Illustration by Alan Rosenfeld [or Videosmith, Inc. Software: Wavefront Technologies; hardware: 34 ATV: High Stakes, Tough Choices Silicon Graphics 3130 and The broadcast industry faces one of its toughest 4Dl60. Hand art photography decisions ever-the choice of a standard for by Gareth Hopson high definition television.
45 The Digital Audio Workstation Dilemma A major purchasing and production decision may ------be in your future. Are you equipped to make it un •ni:.Ain wisely? ProudTradition •Dynamic Future 51 NAB 1989
53 What's Hot: NAB 1989 51 NAB 1989 ! BME's guide to NAB's hottest new products.
69 Exhibitor Listings Who's who in the technology bonanza.
111 NAB Engineering Program Off the floor, hot topics abound.
111 Radio Engineering
117 Radio News BTP Says Bose FMX Report Flawed...Compu• Sonics Quits Manufacturing ... NRSC FM Committee to Test at WAEB-AM!FM
118 What's New in Radio Transmitters? Incremental improvements continue in AM and FM broadcast transmitter design.
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Our thoughts turned to this question after reading a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. charged HDTV According to the Journal, one proposed House of Representatives HDTV bill is situation, there are being written, not by a representative or an employee of a representative, but no disinterested by an employee ofAmerican Telephone and Telegraph. The author in question, parties. Rhonda Levine, is working under the direction ofRep. Mel Levine, a California Democrat. Her salary comes not from Rep. Levine's budget, however, but from a science and technology fellowship provided by AT&T. The situation is completely aboveboard, with no indication of any wrongdo• ing. Lobbying efforts by industry are a time-honored Washington tradition. Further, Dr. Levine, with a Ph.D. dissertation on the politics of television technology under her belt, seems highly qualified to grapple with the nuances of HDTV legislation. What her current activity underscores, more than anything else, is the com• plexity and politically charged nature of the HDTV situation, where everybody has an axe to grind and there are no disinterested parties. The Levine legisla• tion, cosponsored with Rep. Don Ritter (D-PA), seeks to increase U.S. govern• ment support of HDTV through tax incentives, grants, and antitrust exemp• tions. AT&T, which funds Dr. Levine's fellowship, has joined with Zenith Electronics (developer of the proposed Spectrum Compatible TV high-defini• tion transmission system) to ask DARPA for $13 million in R&D funding. AT&T is also a member of the HDTV consortium recently formed by the American Electronics Association. If anything, AT&T deserves admiration for its foresight in assisting someone likely to be sympathetic to its own agenda. Broadcast engineers, and the orga• nizations that represent them, should take careful note. What group of people is better suited to explain to our legislators the technical and practical consid• erations of new transmission schemes? What group will be more closely af• fected by any changes we adopt? Amid the sea of political, legal and economic considerations that surround the HDTV issue, broadcast engineers must strive to make their voices heard effectively. The future of the industry demands it. Eva J. Blinder Editor BME April 1989 11 www.americanradiohistory.com The DPS-i!70 Time Base Corrector ... The Last Ward in Time Base Correction. SYS"TUo\PHASE c;£NLOCK f'"1.~; riCOARSE nFINE XTAl REF Well Actually~ ffere~s the Last Ward . • • THEDPS-270Time Base Corrector. True S-VHSY/C component ~.••..... processing- at a more than affordable price. The DPS-270 ....••. otters S-VHSY/C and NTSCcomposite inputs and outputs, as •••••••L well as a 5.5 MHz bcndwídth. 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KY 410 !7 ~-~~------~~C-ir_c_1e_1o_s_._o_n ReaderServiceCardPage107 606-331-8990 www.americanradiohistory.com FEEDBACK Phasers on Stun? degree case and present two working tain disaster. examples as a reference. The first is The load at the final amplifier I would like to take this opportunity a lossless 52 Ohm (Zo) transmission will be far from symmetrical. As to present a clarification on several line, the second a simple three ele• validation of this condition, I also points regarding the Compute col• ment lagging Tee network. As you present an example of a simple -78 umn in the January issue of BME. can see, the results differ from the degree Tee network feeding a 225 In the article and accompanying examples shown in the article. degree length of transmission line (a computer program, Mr. Balonis The second and most important simplified model of a transmitter makes two assumptions upon which point concerns symmetry. Of para• output network with a 1:1 transfor• to base his calculations. mount importance is where the sym• mation ratio ...not a practical exam• The first point is that the phase metrical load appears in the trans• ple, but sufficient for illustration). shift (phase delay in this case, al• mission system. Symmetry must The asymmetry is obvious as is the though not depicted by a minus occur at the signal generation point imbalance in relative field strength sign) is constant across the (i.e. plate of the final amplifier which should be 5.0 for each side• bandpass. This assumption does not tube(s) or combiner output in a solid band. For historical purposes I will hold true for a transmis¿ion line or state transmitter). With the excep• cite the case of a 50 kW New York simple model thereof. With a change tion of some Nautel transmitters City radio station, operating a non• in frequency, the wavelength will which have a 180 degree output net• directional (shared) antenna, who likewise change, hence a change in work, a symmetrical load placed at retained a "consultant" from the phase delay. When dealing with a the transmitter output terminals midwest to broadband the antenna. network model, a simple three ele• can be the worst condition possible. A symmetrical load was obtained at ment lagging Tee for example, the This is borne by the fact that the the transmitter output terminals by component reactances will differ for majority of transmitters, most of the the use of an outboard line stretcher each frequency as well. older plate modulated jobs as well as network. After the job was com• The examples cited are based on the Harris SX series, have a -225 pleted, the station sounded worse the same phase shift for each fre• degree output network. As viewed than before and the network was quency (see Figure 1). I have recal• on a Smith chart, this rotation to a subsequently removed. culated the impedances for the -78 symmetrical load spells almost cer- The purpose of this writing is by no means a criticism of Mr. Balonis Example #1 Resonated Load Feeding 78 Degree Lossless or BME. Rather I feel that some Transmission Line clarification is necessary so that Freq. R X Power% Rel FS those wishing to improve their band• 970 50.16 +j8.06 25.26 5.03 width thereby improving AM radio 980 52.00 +iO 100.0 10.00 as a whole can do so with the preci• 990 50.72 -j5.95 25.28 5.03 sion that is required for satisfactory Example #2 Resonated Load Feeding -78 Degree Simple Tee performance. Network 970 51.34 +j7.63 24.77 4.98 Thomas Gary Osenkowsky 980 52.00 +¡o 100.0 10.00 Radio Engineering Consultant 990 49.88 -j5.23 25.78 5.08 Brookfield, CT Example #3 -78 Degree Tee Network Feeding 225 Degree Lossless Xmsn Line 970 60.26 +j0.83 21.57 4.64 980 52.00 +jO 100.0 10.00 Do you have an questions, comments, 990 46.94 +j2.1 27.64 5.26 or criticisms concerning what you Notes: read in BME? Any bulletins or issues l. The transmission line has a lo of 52 ohms and is lossless, having a velocity factor of 100 percent. you want to open up to other engineer• 2. The Tee network is a simple Tee comprised of three components and zero loss. ing management readers? Our letter 3. The network is designed for an input impedance of 52 ohms. column, Feedback, is your forum. 4. The Rel FS is the square root of the sideband power. Write to: Feedback, BME Magazine, Figure 1: Resonated load alternatives. 295 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10017. 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IEEE Honors Nikola Tesla...ITS Survey Says HDTV a 'Ten'...Zenith and AT&T Form HDTV 'Consortium' William Henry Leaves ATSC Zenith and AT&T dustry sources told EME. Form 'HDTV Factoring in AT&T-a he chairman of the Advanced Television Sys• member of the politically tems Committee (ATSC), E. William Henry, Consortium' influential American Elec• has resigned. Chairman of the broadbased pri• Zenith Electronics Corp., tronics Association HDTV vate sector high definition television stan• in co-operation with working committee-and dards organization since April 1983, Mr. AT&T, has filed a co-fund• keying the program to Ze• Henry will return to the law firm of ing proposal to the U.S. nith's NTSC-compatible Ginsburg, Feldman & Bress, where he is a partner. Defense Advanced Re• transmission system are "It's time for a new person," Henry told EME. "There search Projects Agency seen as sophisticated are other ways for me to stay in the field." A search (DARPA). Submitted Feb• moves to ensure that Con• committee is seeking a ruary 28, the proposal gress and the FCC support replacement. requests $13 million in co• the format, sources added. Major ATSC accom• funding to develop an In recent months HDTV plishments include work HDTV processor/receiver, has become an increas• toward the adoption of related circuitry and pro• ingly volatile political is• the 1125/60 format as a totype hardware support• sue which has come to standard for HDTV pro• ing Zenith's "Spectrum symbolize the future of duction, Henry said. He Compatible" HDTV trans• American technological also cites the commit• mission system. growth and market devel• tee's work documenting At the same time, Ze• opment. The FCC has in• a B-MAC format for nith also submitted a sep• dicated that a U.S. HDTV HDTV satellite trans• arate plan to develop a system should be compat• mission. large-screen version of its ible with NTSC. Other achievements "Keepoptions open."-Henry. flat tension mask (FTM) The Spectrum Compat• include establishing a high-resolution color pic• ible system is friendly to technology group to coordinate and develop transmission ture tube. This proposal all media including cable, standards for all communications media. "ATSC is the seeks $10 million to help satellite and VCR, accord• only standards organization which functions across the develop a $21.5 million ing to Zenith. Because it board," said Henry. "That's why it's the best organiza• R&D study. can utilize NTSC taboo tion to address terrestrial HDTV standards." Part of the The HDTV receiver channels without interfer• ATSC mandate is supplying the FCC Advisory Commit• R&D program will be ence, it is uniquely appli• tee with a private sector recommendation for a terres• managed by Zenith. AT&T cable to over-the-air trans• trial broadcast standard. will develop HDTV inte• mission, the company said. Henry added that the best way to facilitate worldwide grated circuits in silicon If the Zenith system were development of HDTV is to support a single production through its AT&T Micro• selected as the U.S. trans• standard. He added that the European community sup• electronics operation. mission standard, the 28- ports a 50 Hz system rather than a 60 Hz or 59.94 Hz AT&T Bell Laboratories month joint project would format because it fears an accelerated obsolescence for will supply other system• enable the companies to 50 Hz receivers. Henry personally feels the issue will be design technology includ• deliver production model resolved at the CCIR conference in 1990, although the ing data compression. HDTV receivers by 1993. chance of a single standard is "less than 50-50." It had been expected "If the Spectrum Com• "If there is to be a compromise, the issue is when you that Zenith would submit patible system is not ac• start negotiating," he said. 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Zenith's NTSC-compatible progres• HDTV engineering team: Wayne Lu ploui, Richard Citta and Ronald Lee. sive scan systems and in• terlace systems without generating problems like motion artifacts. Coupled ITS Survey Says ing a position paper on a those responding felt an with international politi• standard HDTV produc• HDTV standard produc• cal considerations, this in• HDTV a 'Ten' tion format. tion format did not yet ex• compatibility may render HDTV will have a major Respondents to the poll ist. Of the respondents agreement on any single effect on the tele• are concerned that none of who favor a current for• standard for HDTV video production industry, ac• the HDTV formats cur• mat (nearly half), 79 per• production unlikely. The cording to a recent survey rently proposed meet in• cent support 1125/60. issue recently led mem• conducted by the Interna• dustry req.rirements for a ITS respondents want a bers of the Hollywood film tional Teleproduction Soci• standard production for• production system which and video production in• ety's (I'I'S) engineering mat. Fifty-six percent of provides high quality and dustries-notably Para• committee. A survey con-· high resolution in a stan• mount Pictures-to modify ducted in December 1988 dard worldwide format. support for a single video shows the majority of "We are concerned that production standard. In those polled think HDTV the industry adopt a non• addition, Paramount said will show an industry im• time-compressed standard in comments filed before pact of 10 on a scale of one production format that the NTIA in February to 10. makes it possible for the that transfer from film to "We wanted to find out easy exchange of video 1125/60 was also difficult. how important the indus• material in any format," Zenith, which supports try thought the issue was Kronquest said. the NBC 1050/59.94 Hz going to be," said engi• Thirty-four U.S. mem• standard for production, neering cornrnittee co- bers volunteered for the said it is premature to cha irman Stan Kronquest engineering committee's consider who will manu• (Telernation Productions, HDTV effort as a result of facture broadcast equip• Seattle, WA.) Based on the the survey. Two hundred ment if its Spectrum Com• response-termed "over• Engineering a position on seventy-seven facilities patible format is whelming and unprece• HDTV: ITS committee co-chair are members of ITS successful. • dented"-the ITS is ready- Stan Kron quest worldwide.• BME April 1989 19 www.americanradiohistory.com No dropouts Tape dropouts mean trouble XBRIl-matic" cassettes, for for videotape professionals. . R . No wonder so many of them ::'~~a~~~~f~~~~.~~~~~;~~n choose to work with Sony m ussía,components to reduce transient Professional Videotape. Including the producers dropout potential by neutralizing static of two recent documentaries shot in Russia, charges. 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On location in Moscow;Russia or in a around one basic premise: durability To be frank, the studio in Moscow,Idaho, you need a tape thats tough demanding shooting conditions of Russia aren't as tough as Sony After all, theres no better SO NY on our tape as we are. way to lower the dropout rate. THE ONE AND ONL.;, © 1988Sony Corporation of America, Sony,Betacarn. U-matic, Carbonmirrar and The One and Only are trademarks of Sony. Circle 109 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com UPDATE Obituaries terns for a number of digital reverb unit. He is Sound News and Stage Joe Roizen, video record• American broadcast sta• survived by his wife and Studio. Contact Jack ing pioneer and president tions. He also consulted Bonnie and his children. A Kelly at Klark Teknik, of his own consulting com• for Information Transmis• special benefit project to Steve Woolley at pany Telegen, died of a sion Systems and Broad• help defray medical ex• Panasonic/RAMSA heart attack March 1 in cast Electronics. Before penses is being organized or any publisher Paris, France. He was at• starting his own firm, by the publishers of Mix above for further tending a meeting of the Resch was employed by Magazine, REIP, Pro information. • International Electro• Harris Corp.'s broadcast technical Commission. products division. Forty• Roizen is perhaps best nine years of age, Resch is known for his participa• survived by his wife Bev• tion in the development of erly and five children. Me• IEEE Honors Nikola Tesla videotape recording, video morials may be made the standardization and new Resch Children's Educa• e IEEE has unveiled a plaque commemorating electronic technologies tion Fund or to the charity Yugoslav-American electrical inventor and engi• such as DBS, digital of the donor's choice. eer Nikola Tesla. The plaque was installed in videographics, videotext Keith Worsley, 51, one the lobby of IEEE headquarters in New York City and Viewdata. of the most highly re• February 3. He began his career at garded marketing special• Tesla invented the ac induction motor and devices the television division of ists in professional audio, for generating high voltage and high frequency cur• Paramount Pictures in died of cancer in a hospital rents. He joined the American Institute of Electrical 1951, where he designed near his California home Engineers in 1888, its fourth year of organization. early NTSC studio equip• in early February. Most The AIEE was the IEEE's predecessor organization. ment. During his 12 years at Ampex International, Roizen developed the first VTR edit system to use electronic "edit pulses" on the edge of a tape. Also at Ampex, his engineering team developed the first commercially successful color VTR. Roizen further underlined his place in broadcast history with the supervision of the Ampex color TV installation at the first U.S. Trade Fair in the Soviet Union. Roizen, who was 65, is survived by his wife, Donna Foster-Roizen, two sons and a daughter. William A. (Bill) Resch, president of his own Quincy, IL-based broadcasting engineering consulting firm, died in recently employed by Hats off to Tesla, the father of high-frequency electricalengi• his home January 8, 1989. Klark Teknik and DDA, neering.Among those unveiling the IEEE plaque are William Until his death from can• he is credited with estab• Terbo, Tesla's grand-nephew; Dr. Milan Bulajic, Yugoslav Tesla Fund; Dr. Emerson Pugh, IEEE president and Wallace cer, Resch had been in• lishing markets for the Behnke, Jr., IEEE power engineering societypresident (left to stalling TV stereo-MTS DN 780 and DDA consoles right). systems and upgrading and many Lexicon prod• UHF-TV transmission sys- ucts, most notably the 224 BME April 1989 21 www.americanradiohistory.com More and more people are lining up for the Panasonic 5Pro.Series. One look is all it takes. And you'll see whymore and more As a Panasonic SVHS Pro Series user, you'll have direct people are lining up for the Panasonic®SVHS Pro Series. access to Panasonic's nationwide network of engineering, Because anyone in the market for a high-qualityprofessional service and technical support specialists. 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And with Our TBC-200 time base the Panasonic SVHS Pro Series Panasonic corrector has a 16-line you not only get outstanding Professional/Industrial Video See us at NAB Booth #4142 Circle 116 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com CROSSTALK AN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT JOURNAL HDTV in Space ...Fairlight Fails in Emergent DAW Market HDTV in Space HDTV closed-circuit feed via fiber op• frame and properly track the shuttle tics. NASA is interested in HDTV to in a good full frame for as long as pos• t was the ultimate ENG assign• deliver pictures from space and as a sible, he said. The team also used a ment for New Jersey-based engi• means to monitor its launches. AF As• 1600 mm lens on a third camera to neering consultants AF Asso- sociates, which has a long engineer• track the shuttle through solid rocket ciates: put together a state-of-the• ing relationship with Bellcore, was stage separation. art-but temporary-HDTV installa• commissioned to design, build and en• Equipment for the shoot included tion. The high definition photo gineer the temporary location unit. four Sony HDV-1000 VTRs and a digi• opportunity? The launch of the space Technology and equipment were sup• tal HD videotape recorder. "The most shuttle Discovery Monday, March 13. plied by Sony, Grass Valley and important thing we learned was The project began when NASA con• Bellcore. about all the interaction between the tracted with Bellcore (Bell Communi• Working from a converted office equipment," said McGrath. "There's a cations Research) to provide an trailer at the Kennedy Space Center, change going on between the sync sys• AF Associates tech• tems." The shoot interfaced older nical director Jim Sony bilevel sync HDTV equipment McGrath and Bell• which does not conform to SMPTE core 's Dr. Indra 240M with a trilevel sync system used Paul got what they in a new Sony digital HD VTR. term "pretty, ex• Other equipment included a Sony citing" pictures HD laser disc player, two HD from four different framestores, five HD color monitors camera angles. (models 1820 and 1828) and three Barred at the last HDC-100 cameras. A fourth camera minute from siting a was added and each was iso recorded. camera on top of the Grass Valley supplied a production vehicle assembly switcher, a routing switcher, a 31 se• building, the AF ries editor and wideband distribution team scrambled to amps. Test equipment included a compensate. Tektronix 1480 HD precision scope, a The team got some ShibaSoku HD test generator and a terrific camera Magni 2021 test generator. angles, McGrath The Iive action was relayed from said. The closest the Kennedy Space Center to an was at l.7 miles HDTV viewing site at Research Park from the launch at the University of Florida, Orlando site, where a camera via an 88 km fiber optic cable link was mounted on from Southern Bell. Southern Bell is NASA's automatic trying to promote fiber optic technol• tracking apparatus. ogy to NASA; it used the shuttle McGrath also cred• launch as a "shop window" opportu• its lens selection for nity to demonstrate carrying HDTV contributing to the video images over long distances. good results. Lenses "HDTV lends itself well to fiber op• for the tracker sites tics and the phone companies are pro• were 150 to 600 mm moting fiber as a way of delivering it," Jim McGrath wends his way through the cables in AF Asso- zooms which en• said McGrath. ciates' temporary HDTV immobile. abled 'the crew to AF also provided downconverters BME April 1989 25 www.americanradiohistory.com Designed for production quáli With an eye on your budget. 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Or contact your local Panasonic Professional/ For maximum performance and versatility, both moni• Industrial Video Dealer. tors offer complete, direct compatibility with the new See us at NAB Booth #4142 S-VHS format--in addition to conventional signals. And video reproduction on the BT-Series. is superb. As a matter of fact, the BT-M1310Y boasts a horizontal reso• lution of more than 560 lines, while the BT-D1910Y offers Panasonic you greater than 550 lines. Professional/lindustrial Video Circle 117 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com CROSSTALK through which NASA fed networks ner and co-founder Peter Vogel are at• "High-tech industries can attract a and cable companies. Bellcore is mak• tempting to form a consortium to buy highly leveraged, go-go mentality," ing a demonstration videotape of the Fairlight assets and intellectual prop• Pine said. "We always said 'Watch launch. Look for it at NAB. erty. It is not known whether this space, there will be a shakeout.' " Fairlight's core technology-sam• "Competition leads to the develop• pling keyboard equipment for music ment of new products and that's Fairlight Fails in Emergent DAW production and audio post-production healthy," Rod Revilock, manager of Market systems-will be handled separately marketing and product development from its newly launched range of for Lexicon Inc., told BME. "This is a n a sudden move, Sydney, Austra• video products. small industry and we don't want to lia-based Fairlight Instruments "Like many people in the industry, see anyone go out of business." Pty. Ltd., manufacturers of highly we made inquiries when we heard Fair light's demise indicates neither regarded digital audio music compo• they were for sale, but that's as far as a weakening in the DAW market nor sition and recently launched audio it has gone," said Ted Pine, marketing the perils of diversification, according post-production workstations, ceased communications manager for New to Revilock. Fairlight sampling key• operating in January. The company's England Digital Corp. NED had been board technology was originally de• assets were offered for sale as some widely rumored as the leading con• veloped for music composition and 200 "orphan" American owners con• tender for the company's U.S. assets. newly developed enhancements ex• tinue to confirm independent service "This underlines that potential tended its capability into post-produc• arrangements through the former buyers must make purchase decisions tion. Music production continued to U.S. service manager. based on a company's stability and its form a large part of Fairlight's pri• commitment to service as well as an mary market, however, whereas evaluation of technology," Pine said, DAW applications range more widely, STOP PRESS adding the confusion over continuity Revilock suggested. "Fairlight's fail• At press time, Fairlight founders of support for current Fairlight own• ure doesn't mean DAW applications Kim Ryrie and Peter Vogel pur• ers was "a problem" for the industry are limited. The term hasn't really chased all Fair light Australian as• as a whole. Although Fairlight failed been defined yet," he said. sets and intellectual property at an because of internal business prob• (Note: Andrew Brent is acting as in• auction in Australia March 14. lems, its demise underscores the terim service manager for Fairlight The sale does not affect the U.S. No emergent-market nature of the DAW equipment. He can be reached at 213- U.S. distributorship is planned. marketplace, according to NED. 859-6935.) Effective worldwide, the move caught the industry by surprise. It was triggered by the failure of the venture capital group currently man• aging the company to provide further funding, according to Fairlight co• founder Kim Ryrie. Fairlight had de• veloped a high debt level in its U.S. operation over the previous two years and the failure to obtain additional financing caused the company to cease operating, he said. "We had expected additional fund• ing from our investor group at the end of the year and there was no time to look for other sources," said Ryrie, adding Fairlight had record orders in November and December. The inves• tor group was due to provide further funding at the close of 1988 but in De• cember advised the partners futher fi• nancing was unavailable. Ryrie and original Fairlight part- Say goodbye, HAL. Fairlight exits. 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For details:.(415) 369-5111 www.americanradiohistory.com TECH WATCH CRT Alternatives Gain Ground By James A. Ackerley and Tim Wetmore hen the broadcast industry fi• side of the back plate is covered by a Although it is not yet possible, nally standardizes a method grid of transparent thin film electric Sharp's LCD product marketing man• Wfor HDTV transmission, how conductors and an array of a-Si TFTs. ager, Steve Sedaker, says the goal for are viewers going to receive the The conductors are formed by a thin LCDs is two- and three-foot-wide widescreen images? The giant dis• film deposit with the excess etched screens. While acknowledging that plays that will do HDTV most justice, away. Similarly, the transistors are direct-address LCDs (without the if based on traditional CRT technol• formed by several thin film deposits TFTs) are easier to build than active• ogy, could be large enough to evict with the excess etched away. matrix LCDs, he adds that Sharp will viewers from their living rooms. At each point of intersection, the be building 13- and 14-inch active• The blue-sky display of the future is horizontal conductor connects to the matrix LCDs in the near future. not a bulky CRT, but a flat panel that gates of two transistors and the verti• Sedaker further expects LCD resolu• could hang on a wall like a painting. cal conductor connects to the drains of tion to catch up with CRT resolution. A thin, flat display could be equally at these transistors. A signal on both in• In his opinion, the best LCD color is home in the cramped quarters of a tersecting conductors causes both already as good as CRT color and in mobile teleproduction truck. Such dis• transistors to conduct, thereby creat• some cases color saturation is better. plays are several years away at best. ing electrical fields at their source ter• Of more concern to the broadcast Probably the most visible of these is minals and allowing polarized light to engineer are the prospects for LCD the liquid crystal display (LCD), cur• pass through the liquid crystal at color monitors. Sedaker reports work rently used for tiny hand-held TVs those subpixels. The operation is se• is in progress to allow LCDs to oper• l like the Sony Watchman and similar quential, two subpixels at a time, and ate over a wider range of tempera• I products from Hitachi, Toshiba and an interlaced scanning pattern is tures and this could result in LCD Sharp. used to avoid flicker. In order to ad• A typical active-matrix LCD con• dress each pair of subpixels in turn, sists of two flat glass plates with the the LCD requires a digital, rather liquid crystal filling the gap between. than analog, video input. Because of its twisted molecular Traditionally, the most serious structure, the liquid crystal is nor• drawback to LCDs has been their mally opaque to polarized light, but small size. The largest active-matrix when an electric field is applied, the color LCD in current production, for structure untwists and polarized light example, is a 6.3-inch unit from passes through. One or two fluores• Hitachi. Judd Lynn, production man• cent tubes with diffusion plates sup• ager for World Products, thinks in• ply light from the back plate. Filters herent production difficulties could then polarize the light, which the liq• hold the upper limit on the size of uid crystal blocks at some points LCDs to 10 or 11 inches. (pixels) and passes at others. Tiny red, Sharp, however, has demonstrated green and blue filters on the inside of a 14-inch prototype, suggesting im• the front plate color the light at each provements in both size and quality pixel. The color and shape of the re• could be on the horizon. The Sharp sulting picture depend on which system boasts a 642 x 480 pixel array pixels transmit light and the resolu• for a pixel count of 308,160 and a tion depends on the number of pixels. transistor count of 1,232,640. Sharp Each pixel consists of three or four scientists claim color reproducibility subpixels. At each subpixel, an amor• equivalent to a CRT and good horizon• phous silicone thin film transistor (a• tal resolution of about 420 lines. IBM Si TFT) either supplies, or fails to sup• and Toshiba have also just announced ply, the electric field to make the a 14-inch prototype with a 720 x 550 The Sony Watchman displays NTSC video liquid crystal transmit light. The in- pixel array and 1,584,000 transistors. on a tiny LCD screen. BME April 1989 29 www.americanradiohistory.com Circle 113 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com TECH WATCH color monitors becoming a reality. Developrnents in flat across the screen and will absorb very One troublesome aspect of LCDs is high beam power." aliasing, or the tendency for lines to panel display In effect, this flat tension mask al• be jagged rather than smooth. Light technology are starting lows designers to use an anti-reflec• from a CRT's phosphorescent coating tive surface to eliminate glare, one of tends to die out and soften the out• to give the CRT a run the big problems with most flat-panel lines of images, while light from liq• for its money. displays. It also enables the system to uid crystals tends to persist, leaving have greater brightness and achieve each pixel clearly defined. There is no better contrast levels, resulting in a known solution to the problem, but but, by admission of plasma propo• sharp, bright picture even in a higher resolution should help. On the nents themselves, it's a technology brightly lit room. The mask's high plus side for LCDs are reduced power likely to remain too expensive for all resolution is shown in a pixel count of requirements, but even here the but highly specialized video uses. An• 640 X 480. backlighting in an LCD consumes at other limitation: All plasma systems The conventional CRT won't go least 10 W. are monochrome except for a handful away, at least not in the foreseeable Some manufacturers are appar• of prototypes not slated for wide re• future, but flat-panel technology is ently determined to stick with the lease in the near future. clearly the wave of the future. Look CRT. According to Luke Rowles, mar• That leaves the technology known for flat panels to appear next in com• keting manager for display products as flat tension mask (FTM). Although puter monitors, workstations and from Sony's Professional Products di• basically a CRT itself, its developer, applications where CRTs can't be vision, "Sony is concentrating on Zenith, contends that it represents a used, such as individual video moni• CRTs because, for now, the CRT true departure from preconceptions tors aboard airplanes. • yields the highest quality picture about display technology. "It uses a with the best resolution and color perfectly flat shadow mask and a per• characteristics of any display medium fectly flat screen," relates Chuck Wetmore is a New Jersey-based writer available." Prazak, director of the FTM program specializing in technology. Ackerley is Dave Sapper, assistant general at Zenith. "The mask is stretched BME's technical editor. manager at Hitachi America, one of the largest CRT manufacturers, says, "The CRT is still far better than any- thing else in terms of resolution and ,------1 color. For some years to come, I can't ¡ LIQUID CRYSTAL see a threat from any other technol• I I ogy. The economics of the CRT are I still very attractive and that's always I I a consideration in technological I development." I I One of the first companies to de• I THIN FIELD velop a large-size LCD screen for color I TRANSISTOR I display was Sayett Technology, a I wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak. I "We see future development in LCDs r------., coming from several directions," says 1 I I I Don Ver Ploeg, director of corporate I I communications for Kodak. He be• I I I I lieves computers may receive one of I I I I the prime LCD pushes. 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"¡¡ • \;. •• • .. r!sing pressqre ~roro.,.rªtti.c:J~sdirec- ~0~11,, 0 • •mrg ht be encourage•• d to C'thiin k•.,¡rnoutl/•L ••••o• ••• " ~ " ~ . mutual ventures that would rtlsÚ.lt~ in .•" a sum greater than the equal of the •" ! ••• • •• •• parts." •• v¡ h rt·~·F .. ,. G ád I . •.•.• , ••., •.~·th t d r·~a.e ¥ oresees. ra na • : Respon ding.>""º "Conc_erns a e- • ••~..,.~ $ " ., .,.• • i!ia!1d fgr ATV har~wa¡e may provide Clfapg~over : • qoqi"estic manufacturers with an "Sevev¡tl of the proponent transmis- -~pportunity to get baék· into the tefo- sion S:¥st.rms to be tés,t~~ should dem- 11 vision manufacturing busá>ne:Ss, onstdte their ability to:ttánsmit a • •,. Fannon statgs that ATTC wili.ñoS high-quality HDTV: ,signal,': predicts ••. ~' ••• trlat. S¿'Ste~s differently based on " •~Q.seph Flaherty, CBS~vice presideti.;." • : •• •• the in..f.'g¡untvy of origin, but ,:dgsi, • • aild general' manager of engineeriñg • • • : ~••• ¡,,¡,j e • 1'}.,¡¡¡ ••.. • •. "Where thei;,dollars4t flow mavJ• 'O.epend..,, and development. anda chairman...., of the •• more on thf[proceeds from] licensing Planning Sub~ommitte'é of the FCC'"s: z than the actufü manilfacturing." • ! Advisory Committee" -on Advanced-, e ""~ * • • "' ,,. • z. :.ATTC's Second lntehm Report, due ~·'fel\}-vision Se:r;,vice(ACATS). : "..... • Z It • • • <,;>"' • • ••••• •• ~ /at:1ti~. end of this I!lOnth,"..will detail !..fri'the competition to offer superJ:ór •• ,•. ::;; ,•••the'.procedures'fo"be>used ••in sall its .:HDTV, both cable and Clir"ectbroad- ~ I.I ~ 'If ,• • ¡: tests, but Fannon expects the1ATTC's cast satellite (DBS) lJav9e an advan- • • e:: ~ .• •• • • e, work to take at least another two tage to the extent 'thae. broadcast ". • • (I -.. •. ~. •• '• • • ~ y,ears• to complete. He foresees no ,bandwidelf may be a Iimitation., but, .•• ••• ••••...• • :) Iii -e"'""..... rj} • •.terns, and NTSC-incompatible, for- pribl}m with continued funding. Flagerty.,'expects this advantage to"l:i-e,, • mats. s ~• • •.•••-"' • • .•,. •.,. "~he•4lt b¡;;oadcasters' ··~ho:•• ·'*""".. support at leas~"~ partially. nullified. when ef- • • ••• • "Anyoné~wbo. presumes to bypáss ATTC h_a-vé: agreed to '•cóntribute forts to '\¡,se two broadcast channels • •,,. .• -~ ~ 6 . . !!"' • • .•.•• ~ :. everyone with a TV set today '¥ould whatever it takes to get this Job done," are succeséful. • "• • \ ••• do so at • •• • motion p,orti;ayiáL• •. • gra1luaL~ V.. According to 'Flaherty, we it, the purist •>Mfü~ be an earlY•It_,e·onvert • There vi1il'l•be~no limits or~'passing may look for .broadcast HDTV td- to HDJ:V whatever the cost, bu.t many • •• • - -- ' JI>. •. • ~ • 'It grade" for each ártribute. The\urpose evolve more sldjv.lythan cable 'H-1).TV; others-\~ciall.y if enhanced NTSG • will be ~imply to determine £ht..best but we shouldrst ex-uectHDT~ 't"o·mª::. comes Jfi.to.eifuttnce-will hold back:• • • syst.e,m¡¡~ather than to establish "any• eterially alter the co:m,petifüonbetweeb•· and become a weH'-~fitrenched II\~HJ~e'hi ••• ~ •- .~~· •• - • • • Oc :.. arbitrar¡y,,fand~ of excell-e~ei \t'A'.Ft- broadcastgns --$3. cable ljperators. In for NTSC. • • • • • ! •.••.·other wórking'jlartv is.wrl.flng speci~• his view, both=broadcast viewers and Green hopes cable operators•cañ ••• ti• v- I' " • WI ;.·· -, fications-for the test equipment and cable &j.l.bscrioers will continue to gain a'h edge in ffi.e•.comoetition to~•., •. • • ~ • V y f' • •,,.-;r: . G test Sfi.UUpsthat will pe neeqed to do have §'Ssentially the same reasons iü.J•,. <.th~MTI>TVmarket by0qffetmg a betser tibe testíñg. ; •. -•·:· choq~;"é~~neor the other._.;¡.A. •pictu;e than the bJ<ól\dcasters.His big · • •e •. .• • 4l : •. •.,. • • • ·II: • • o!\.., ..,• •• • ~ .:!.. •••••• • • :.. • ••.•.-# •••• :jp•. 411 ""' : """'··· ;. •• •• •• • •• • ·~ • • • • (J • • • • • ••• • • • ••••••••••• ..• •• •• ·.: : ··~.... • Flaherty discounts - ,,.•••• • • ) •• •• Ii• • •• • . ' .. ••• • • ,. • • (t" .• " .- ' "' • • ª • • • concern is that the FCG' standard, a:bllity'~of>,the1proponent.sJ.Tstemsfor • " * ~..., 3 • •when approved, will fall• short of the th~cable industry, Green is making quality cable is capable of-delivering. no pr:egictions concernin~.ihe future. ~ :;>. plan of action. As for the present, he : • .>:.• • , -e •. •:· of thes~ might "easily fail to pr:oylde says, "Th'e •ca'bhe industry wants to • • the : • •.. may be impressive, he adds, only full- 0pÓsal being prepared by(the Planning •• !!"! - r\ • • ""> ,,.. •• . • • • • scale use of actual hardware can pre'!•• committee of the ACA'VS.The inter- . • ••• ~· • diet the inevitable, real-life problems fuce>'}yillenable cable to~carry;H~TV •••• e ,. * t«'I i. s- I°!'.. .• •that may occur. ,.., •. broadcast programming ~ .&'.éparat_ecable-industry s_t&.?d:r'tl~fo~, new mqin office to be located tnJh.e Peacé "through Prosperity» 0 .•. • • • • • transmitting noncornpatible MDTV Boulder-Denver area of Colorado, AE._/1,"' • k Th Q,• • • fo • •ti •• ••• • on cable. •• where it!hop·es to establish á working e <' • ' • ~ • •• • " ~ Cable shbuld have an" ad~antage relation~h'ip with the "úft'ivg~sit¡_Yof "Economic competitivene~s. has be- •• even wit~out a separate signal,"Green • Colorado's very strong optical" elec- come the national sec~rity issue," ·: .__, Gl ~ no .-. •• • • •• conti~U\~S.Incmany cases, the "purrst'"•••tronics program. It was also attraéted statés.a wprking report issued by the / ~ whp,cism~st•llkely to go for HDTV is : t6•this areasby the, n~:r presence of Améric•ah Electl:\oni·cs eA:s-:ó'ciationº"•.•··· ., .._ w • 1• ,_. (": ii"~ 8- . e C!'b ;; • -,••: already a cable subscriber, he notes,•:"ine National We1e,¡omqi,unicationsIn- (A~~) ATV Task Force Economic Im- • : '•, He adds that cable can devote whole : formation Admitfistf'ation (NTIA¿ pact'Team. "While a few view ATV's •••: ••• :·:.channels'tO sports or op~~a, where the Laboratory, one of liegb~ropagatio¿i. incredibly detailed.images as sjmply • benefi\¡P~fHDTV will'be most appar-. laboratghes in the w~rld. Cable La~s"'• a boon tc¡t¡12,1~,.cb ent. Broadcasters offer no comparablé é t:concen'trates on R&D in the areas.of •,ognize the Iong-térm competitive inÍ~·.· • • ~- ••••,J '1 . ""' ,,,,, • • ••.••.••• er.vice. • ,, • ~ber'Optics and JíDTV :In the area" of• .p'lications: th~'ripple effect' on other •••••bi •.• ., " •• } ~ . ei • . • . ••• . . • ~:-f ~- ..., • . . ~ ~ ; •'Despite his doubts about the suit- fiber- optics, Gree:g..1s'üot intimidated electronic mdustry segments." ••• .. ~· .. ·. ,,. •" ~ . -~ . . ~: ' s ...... ••• : •• C'•'; • ~ •. .w: •• • ~ •• • ••• ...• • • •.•.:_ .! • ••••• •• •• • • {I! . • •• • • ••• •••• • I' •• ¡¡,, •••• "' •• • In G~~en's vie?f,,.th..r¿... • r- • • •• • . . . . •• •• •• .:······:·. . ••··•·•···. ~ sub'tle•differénces •• • ·...... • •• . .' ·:.. ... • • • • :;t• •• ••.,s•••.•,. beuoeen:;., th'IJ NTSC•and~ . ... .4 •. • ...... • ·... . . :· • • •• ••••• ....•...... ••• • HDTV markets wfilt ••• ··: .... . •••• ••• ;,*.•. . •• • .. 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"The DARPA _initiative meet- whatever technological chal• ... 'crossmessaging,' "said Pat Hill Hub• put the technology agsnda'on compa• lenges arise." bard, vice president" of science and nies' plates, and hopefully it will have "The broadcast industry is defi• •. .• technology .for the AEA. One group- a life of.its own beyond that," she said." nitely~part of our visio"ii;'\ said Hilb-• :-: loosely, the .,broadcast industry-is "We hope we don't have to walk away bard, addressing concern that ,thé .. ••• '•primarily,, ,9.on.cerned with t. sending from HDTV and say 'DARPA was television business could ..•be over• .~· high-resolution television pictures to it.' ,, looked by proponents of the ""coJ:l>vt31";, . the home. The second group sees The next step foz; the AEA is devel• gence"· theory of imaging. "We're try-"'.• HDTV technologies "converging" into opment of HDTV business plans for ing to get the nonconsumer electron- advanced imaging applications. The presentation to Washington no later ics industry together, but there's • primary issue for the latter group, than May 15. "It's crucial we do thi~ certainly room -to ensure their needs • • • •••••which the AEA represents, is how to now," Hubbard said. "If we miss May, are addressed.jtoo." •, •• • • re-enter a market we vacated, Hub- we lose a year." Some 30 AEA mem• Although the AEA says the wisest ..•·~ •• bard said. bers have agreed to fund business •••• Although Rebo High Definition plans. ""It's clear that a. single,; com• :studio has recently joined the associa- pany will not try to re-enter this busi- • •.• bon, most AEA members come from ness alone," Hubbard said. "The fi• ·.-.···the computer and semiconductor· nancial risk of squeezing back into a • industries. , • market where there's no plant, shefr "You can make a link between the space or ·distribution is very high.t'"?" ••• U.S. leaving the consumer field in The AEA is also exploring the cre• ••••• ~·., products .like TVs and VCRs in the ation of industry-led development and " . • "early 1970s and the current shortage manufacturing consortia. One model : . . ~ ••"Ii.4 ~ •••of DRAMs, which is affecting com- is a joint industry-governmentRée.D • '•': puter systems manufacturers," the effort focused heavily on commercial •. AENs John Hatch also tole! RMR development of resear~h technology.~ "You can'rnake the same case for dis- Technology licensing agreements" and .... pl:y technol~gy." • government tax credits are other'\~- .... " ...... T11he AE:A. wants to see a three- : sues under consideration. .·.•.•...•... • / pronged initiative to develop HDTV, • Although the AEA does not rule out . . :.. according to Hubbard. One prong is partnership arrangements with for- ·.,.'•·. an industry-led initiative, another eign companies, U.S. HDTV manufac~ 'wm focus on consumer products, and ture is the association's primary go~l the third was begun by the Depart- "We hope this becomes a real partnér• •I •merit of Defense, which recently be- ship between U.S. government a;_d gan a program to fund research into U.S. industry," Hubbard.. "I have"no ' •....• •• •' .•. • •• Hubbard: "The "~ . , ~@ .:.·····:G. broadcast industry is •• . . • ~• ·-, : -~•• . ..•. definitely, part of our .• .....•••.... .~.. • ...... ~· •..• .• vision. There's ..... ••o ••• •••• ii ••• •• •• certainly room to ...... e • ••••••• ensure thei» needs .. ••• • • •• •• • • "'• are addressed. 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"'.• • • • • • : Accgt-ttin$ t~ Tietjen, "The si'onet " ~•. Tietjen Urges";Rapid !••• st:ndards·"ª~ adopted the b~t!:r for ter loc~ted in Jjie'PJ3S.•facility i~ Al~: •, , • • • • ;? •., •• all, especially.•the consumer." exandna, VA'! The" ..Subcommittee: • •·i"I !f d Í • • ,. " ,. ' ._j4i1al)uar Iza IOil ..• : ·.:Fhe subcommittee .~etjen heads··:~p.oulg end its ••w-órk in fate 1989 o.f \ ••• Dr.°·~ames J. Tietjen, presi':ªnd• • Maintaining[an. . . ,_,. op9ñcpJocedure•• • • ••.at ·~ee~s• open s~.~at.• evéryonee knows •·., other components which could §l~w PYery stage, tli'e.Subcommittee has :what even•.ó.ne:else is doing and we •••• . ~ ,.., . .. . . progress for all concerned. Establish- malled the spfeadsheets back to the don't reject any6h'tfs ideas. '.Ghepropo- •!·~••• o~. • • • • • ing.·~tandardS> Js,,~a_.s~9f.ª~e issue •proponents for• comments.•. When ~ents are given many opportjlnities to •• ~a;i).a.r.efromconsidergtion~~of competi-.• h4dware for the proponent ~aWlPS ••modify their proposals and;th~!lnal tive ~Cl.Vantageand:i1tl\_e°'rapid intl{.91,• Jls~mes ava~l11blelate thi~ yea-!'•ob-: report does ~~t pick a winne~ ••~J¡~t. • ductión of standardt~hould be g3od jecm~:t~sting'Wit1b,¡;ij:[inat a test ceru• merely giv~11the FCC' tlr~fa~ts in • •• • 4!a •• ••• • • .• .• : • "It •• .. . ·..· ,.•~ ..•. . - . • •• .~- • • $ '-. ~ • • a : ~ ~ • •••••••• •• :·.·:.•...... • •••• . . . •• • ···:-·· ·. .T.iet'ien: ."We ke_@rhthe : • • • c Circle 110 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com ..·.·....!... --~···. • . -·,..- . . • •: .· • •• •• •• . ••••.•••...• •·,, ·:• ••• • • ...•...... • • . ••• • • • • •••• ...:·· fl ••• ·: . . . ••••• •• •• ... ..·:·:. ~ • • • · ... • •• .. : ·:·:·· :· •• • • • '.II • . ...· ·. ••• • i ...•...- .•: •••• . . • • •• 4 .. .. • ••• ~· .. • ·•····•···. • •••••• ..··~. ...". • ·. • •••• •• . . . .•". °' •• .,• <: "... •• ·=······\···• ~t ~ e' ...... ••. • •• ~r·v·( ..•" •• • ••• • • • ••• • •• • • •• • •.• 4 • • ••. • • • • • •• • •.format on which all concerned.. parties •emtt~o~lbat.in NTSC. e!thé'r~ Some shave agreed."----J.A. : •• th'ings Jre done besriif: sp:ecific me• ..•...... ·•. . . "•• dia"'".ljD is excellent fo;•.hiattes and ••• • • film •is excellent for 'liigh spe~ed• 4:i1 ·~·.. .·Reho ~earns by Doing photography."·~ • . • ~ ,:-:_ Barry :rilin~e~ly and A~by Levine.s Both men think HDTV is headed .!•' ' preside~t,.Wtd"'vi-.~epreside!if,e.re~ec~ toward d(g,iit,¡¡.twoducti<¿pand distri- ' • tively~of New York City-bi:t&edR~o"'• bution. "It's not ite"c~ssª~ to be digj;• Researéh,.• know a lot about~i©~eer-lt ~ tal, but it's giing.'"there," they-. ~sa~,'{ ing. Reba was tqe first compa¡¡1;in the adding that tt).m effects peopl~.ar~ : U.S. to -~s,e••BDTV equipment for stTunulating d'emand. "Digital is no0t'ii, ; • video and !i.'lmJproduction. and canse- pañaée~.. Despite the number.. of gen- : • ". .guently foundjitself a de facto indus- • era Reliability.It's what ITC audio cartridge machines are all about. Even after years of playing and pounding. In fact,you'll find many of our original models still in use today. Like this one from KOMA-AM in Oklahoma City. ITC cart machines have always been engineered to withstand heavy-duty use. That includes our latest models. It's reliability that's made ITC the undisputed world leader in cart machines. But our reputation doesn't end there. Engineers say ITC offers the best support in the business. With toll-free technical advice. Fast turn• around on repairs and parts. And a two-year warranty on factory labor and all parts including motors, heads and solenoids. No wonder stations buy ITC machines more often than any other brand. And keep coming back for more. There's an ITC cart machine for every need. The 99B Master Recorder with the patented ELSA cartridge preparation system. The DELTA series, the most popular cart machine for the last five years. And the economical OMEGA series, offering affordable performance. To find out more, call International Tapetronics, 3M Broadcast and Related Products Department at 1-800-447-0414.(In Illinois and Alaska, call collect: 309-828-1381.)Or see one for yourself at these dealers: Allied Broadcast Equipment; Broadcast Services Co.; Broadcast Supply West. Tellthem you heard about it from a reliable source. e1989. 3M Company 3IVI Circle 111 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com THE number of vendors may shrink as "natural selection" takes its toll. The process has already begun, in fact, WORKSTATION with the corporate demise ofFairlight Instruments Ltd. in late January. This is a good time to get an early grip on the situation. To aid in this, we offer some thoughts on the deci• sion-making processes that confront DILEMMA us in the workstation world. A major First of all, is the price justified? Prices will inevitably come down, and purchasing and further system integration will bring production decision cheaper, more task-specific units. Any realistic price comparison must may be in your future. consider that most workstations re• Are you equipped to place a multitrack tape recorder and a mastering recorder, and some replace make it wisely? most or all of a mixing console. Unfortunately, most of us don't re• place all of these items at once, unless we're starting from scratch. So this big a ticket may be hard to swallow as an incremental improvement. This is especially true for the many broad• cast facilities that have never had much of an investment in multi track BY SKIP PIZZI recorders in the past, but who might still benefit from a workstation. he digital audio worksta• And the comparison is not quite tions on display at NAB that direct, either. Most workstations 1989 will present engi• can outperform a multitrack deck in neers with a difficult as• terms of editing individual tracks af• sessment. Few of us have ter "layup," and in their ability to the perspective required slide tracks around in time relative to for a valid appraisal of this new equip• each other. Editing in general can be ment category. It's hard to evaluate previewed before commitment, much something when the industry hasn't like video editing. And the compact even defined the unit of measure• size of the workstations makes them ment. Add to this the infancy of the much more space-efficient than the industry, with its first-generation hardware they replace. Their "soft" bugs and "gold rush" atmosphere, and configuration eliminates the need to you have an intimidating environ• decide how many tracks are enough, ment for the prospective purchaser. and what track format to use, a source The sad fact is, it's probably not go• of great concern when purchasing a ing to get much better, although the multitrack ATR. BME April 1989 45 www.americanradiohistory.com Even the highest-priced systems savings. But for a very busy audio• able here, but access time and general may prove cost-efficient. A number of only facility that commonly works on design philosophy are also involved. recording studios, for whom billable complex productions, today's work• Sizes range from desktop to several hours are of supreme importance, station may prove cost-effective. full racks. How versatile and modular have successfully implemented work• Current offerings range in price the control software is should be con• stations. According to these users, from around $20,000 to over sidered as well. Each workstation has this hardware doesn't sound any bet• $150,000. All workstations are not a personality that belies the origin of ter or do any more in the end for the created equal, and the price differen• its creators, whether they be digital client, but it does it all faster. The tial reflects that. They break down sampler/synthesizer manufacturers, time saved can be booked by other cli• into three major categories: audio processing firms, console de• ents. One major studio claims its 1) Editor only. Audio is downloaded signers, tape recorder builders, or workstations have paid for them• into the workstation, assigned to vari• pure computer types. Knowing this selves faster than anything else they ous "tracks," edited and output. No going in can help scope out the design have ever bought. audio processing, no mixing onboard. approach, and thereby help you get Examples are the AMS Audiofile and quickly to the heart of any potential DAR Soundstation II. strengths or shortcomings for your This is not just a newer, 2) Editor with "virtual" mixer. Au• applications. dio is downloaded in, assigned to And of course, don't forget user• better version of last tracks, and edited. Mixing and some friendliness. How long it takes your year's product-it's a audio processing can be accomplished staff to come up to speed on the device using a mixing-console-like display is far from a trivial concern. Various whole new product. So on CRT, emulating typical control levels of training and other support new, it may redefine the surfaces, and operated by mouse or are offered by the manufacturers. De• QWERTY keyboard manipulation. termine these clearly, and factor very nature of audio Examples are the Waveframe Audio• them into any purchasing decisions. production. frame, NED PostPro, and Dyaxis Sys• Remember, too, that this is any• tem. Some workstations of this vari• thing but a static market. Economic ety are also based around musical volatility and "soft" configurations Can this timesaving capability keyboard controllers, such as the both make for lots of changes in a translate to the same economic ad• NED Synclavier. hurry. Many buyers have changed vantage for broadcasters? That will 3) Editor with digital mixer. Here a their minds more than once between depend on the specifics of your situa• small mixer is attached, to be used for purchase approval and delivery. tion. Is your cash flow limited by pro• AID conversion, grouping, mixing and We're dealing with rapidly moving duction speed? If your production stu• assignment of audio inputs to the targets here, faster than we're used dio were more productive, would that workstation, as well as digital mix• to, since much the momentum driving show up on your bottom line? It is im• down and processing of edited tracks. this development comes from the portant to note that audio down• Workstations of this category (such as high-volume computer industry. loading to, and uploading from, a the Lexicon Opus, AMS Logic 1 and The workstation's advantages come workstation cannot currently be ac• SSL 01) are true standalone control hand in hand with the danger of mak• complished at anything greater than rooms, requiring only an outboard· ing a massive mistake, if a choice is the real-time speed. For the facility mastering deck to which to download considered imprudently. Fluency in not already using multitrack regu• the final mix, and an audio monitor• this arena takes more than a quick larly, these added steps can actually ing system. trade-show demo. An entire brave make production take longer. The pic• Even some of the higher priced new world must be carefully con• ture will change radically if faster• models are still fairly limited in what fronted, a world where computers than-real-time digital 110 becomes they can actually accomplish. For ex• meet audio and broadcasting. Even if available. ample, one of the fully dedicated a long-term demo in your studios is Radio and television/film users of workstations has an eight-input, on• available, it takes valuable amounts these devices will have different board digital mixer. But the CPU can of your time to study, learn and fi• needs and priorities. The relative ease only handle three "disk events" nally evaluate. Is that worthwhile? of synchronization and of conforming simultaneously, meaning that only The answer is probably yes, since you audio to last-minute picture changes three tracks can be mixed at a time to are investing in your own and your that many workstations offer is a an outboard mastering deck, or only company's future, and expanding clear advantage to teleproduction. two tracks if staying totally inboard your knowledge base. Somewhere, For radio, the justification is more dif• with the mix file-the preferred sometime, this is inevitable technol• ficult, since much of the daily produc• method in most cases. ogy.• tion load is fairly quick and simple, Size variations are also notable. thus minimizing the potential time Storage capacity is the primary vari- Pizzi is BME's contributing editor. 46 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com The Future of Broadcast Audio Has Arrived ... 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Take a look at just a few of the features of the 66 Series: • Microprocessor - controlled reset system for switch status and input gain • Optional system to restore rotary controls and faders to previous settings • Dual input mono and stereo mic/line channels • Multiple clean feed system (mix-minus) • Four-band equalizer • Silent matrix switching • Four or eight stereo groups • Up to 12 mono and two stereo auxes • 24 or 32-track recording and post- produc- tion options Neve welcomes you to the future - A Siemens Company BERKSHIREINDUSTRIAL PARK, BETHEL,CONNECTICUT 06801, U.S.A. • TELEPHONE: (203) 744-62:30. 260 WEST52ND STREET,NEW YORK, NY 10019, U.S.A.• TELEPHONE: (212) 956-6464. 6353 WESTSUNSETBLVD., SUITE402, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90028, U.S.A. • TELEPHONE: (:!13) 461-6383. 1221 lóTH AVENUE SOUTH, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE37212, U.S.A.• TELEPHONE: (615) 329-958l. MELBOURN, ROYSTON, HERTSSGS 6AU, ENGLAND •TELEPHONE: ROYSTON (0763) 60776. POSTFACH 326 A-1031, VIENNA, AUSTRIA• TELEPHONE:43-222-72930. www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com Watching the horizon for more of Type IX? That's Sony's value line of U-Matic SP™ 3/4-inch video equipment. Well, the goods are here. And they're not just good. They're great. There are three new pieces: the V0-9850 Editing Recorder, V0-9800 Recorder/ Player, and the V0-8800 Port• able Recorder. They will dazzle you with advanced capabilities. And affordable prices. One innovation is soft• ware control. A menu on the screen lets you preset an optional time code and access other machine func• tions, such as diagnostics, by means of front panel software switches. The RS-422 serial inter• face for remote control is bi• directional, so that the edit controller is continually up• dated on machine status. Plus longitudinal SMPTE time code, for ± O frame ac• curacy. Not to mention the Dolby® C audio noise reduc• tion, with balanced audio XLRconnectors. But see these wonderful new arrivals for yourself. Just call Sony at 1-800-523-SONY. Sony Communications Products Company, 1600 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. © 1989 Sony Corporation of America. Sony and U-Matic SP are trademarks of Sony. Dolby C is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories. Inc. SONY PROFESSIONAL VIDEO www.americanradiohistory.com ,. inside YOU GET THE RIGHT:~ STUFF Today's multí-fcr• mat editing demands more from a TBC. So the Nova900S deli• vers more: Professional TBC performance with true 4:2:2 component pro• cessing. Plus synchronized , input swítchíng and digital ef-1 fects that will "supercharge" yoúr video ~...stem's creative potential. outside YOU GET THE RIGHT NAME The Noca logo means proven performance. ríependa-" bility and reliability: Our exactír.g test and burn-ín · procederes make sure of that. 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True, television engi• neers may be bracing for the onslaught of advanced televi• sion and radio engineers steel• ing themselves to face digital audio workstations and new transmission technologies. But these portents imply, not im• pending Armageddon, but rather a dynamic, growing in• dustry with a commitment to R&D and technical excellence. As the following pages am• ply show, innovation and ex• ~~cellence will be no strangers to l. the NAB 1989 show floor. New ~ product introductions will cut across virtually all equipment categories. New names will crop up in established mar• kets, and established products by the score will be enhanced and upgraded. The upshot of all this activity? A healthy, vi• tal industry with its eye on the future. - The eye of the NAB at- tendee, on the other hand, may !!tfAl~ easily be distracted by the glit• ter and hype that surrounds any show of this importance. To help you cut through the confusion we offer, in the pages that follow, our annual "What's Hot" analysis ofdevel• opments at this year's NAB. For complete information on any exhibitor, turn to the al• phabetical listing of exhibi- tors, immediately following the What's Hot section. We I wrap up our NAB coverage \ .. with a list of this year's excit- ing and informative engineer- ing sessions. A lot is happen- ing, but take a breath and plunge right in. We'll see you 1. on the floor. www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com ' Sony switcher four has 17 inputs, one M/E, and a TV/VIDEO program/preset bus with effects. Standard configuration includes auto phasing of inputs, E-File and a chroma keyer Judging by the number of new product introductions that can use a component background signal. The digital scheduled for NAB 1989, video equipment manufacturers effects link runs on the same fader as the switcher. are going out of their way to demonstrate the health and An unusual item will be a seven-input, 1.5 M/E switcher vitality of the broadcast industry. If you're attending the that is completely battery operated. The size of an attache show, be prepared for some surprises and plenty of case, it will feature three linear keyers and 34 built-in excitement. The staid production switcher market, for example, will heat up considerably as Sony enters the field with a splash. Don't expect other switcher manufacturers to take this move lying down; this year should see dramatic devel• opment in production switchers generally. Digital effects, too, will move beyond the established cast of characters with new entries and lots of new and upgraded equipment. Video recording, last year's hottest area, will cool to a steady simmer this year as both Ampex and Sony continue to ship their D-2 recorders. But Panasonic/Matsushita will attempt to keep the temperature high with its new half• inch digital recording technology. With the industry about to begin HDTV testing, ad• vanced television is sure to dominate many conversations at this year's show. In addition to NAB's own ATV Hall, at CEL family of video effects devices. the Convention Center, the 1125/60 Group will host a large display at the Tropicana Hotel. wipes. The top of the line will be the "ultimate" Sony Here's a sampling of NAB's hottest products for video: switcher, a D-2 composite digital unit that will be demoed as a product concept only. •Another advance in high-end switching is expected to be Switchers and Post-Production on view at the Abekas booth (2346), where the A84 digital •The hottest news in this area will be Sony's (4101) entry component switcher will make its debut. Announced (but into the production switcher market with not one but six not exhibited) at SMPTE, the A84 is a high-end switcher exciting products. Entry-level switcher is a three-input for the D-1 digital domain. unit that includes a field of memory to lock together two • Ross Video (4977) will unveil the Downstream Multi• VTRs, eliminating the need for TBCs and allowing simu• Keyer, an option for the company's RVS416 production lated A/B edits with only one VTR. It features full 3D switcher. The device can put eight different keys from six digital effects and a surprisingly low price tag. Second in sources on the screen at one time, bringing the total of key the line is a 10-input, 1 M/E switcher with full key bus and levels on the 416 to 12. It also features non-additive keys, four external key inputs. Options will include a chroma allowing key source and program video to be combined. keyer, E-File and a downstream keyer. The switcher also • Thomson (5141) will show several new production features an editor interface and digital effects link. The switchers: the TTV 5645, an analog component switcher next step up is a 10-input, 1 M/E switcher with two key with 4:2:2 digital processing; the TTV 5650, a serial com• buses and a downstream keyer, genlock and editor inter• ponent digital mixer; and the TTV 5655, a parallel compo• face as standard equipment. This unit is capable of nonlin• nent version of the 5650. ear transitions, has 34 wipes and a digital effects link, and • New from Crosspoint Latch (3977) will be a pair of pro• will be available in a component version that can intermix duction switchers, the 6129 BHK and the 6199 YC. Betacam and RGB signals. •Utah Scientific (4526) will introduce a new automation BME April 1989 53 www.americanradiohistory.com WHAT'S HOT system, the TAS-1. way. The new model, the P164 series, features an eight• • In video editing systems, CMX (4538) will premier the bit, 4:2:2 format, along with new software, proprietary latest version of its midrange editor, the 3100B. The B has ASICs, and DSP digital signal processors. The device has all the features of the 3100A, which it replaces, plus the four composite inputs with internal switching and input operational features of the higher-priced 3400A. Users of selection for component, Y/C, YUV, and digital. Added the 3100B will enjoy advanced capabilities such as Dy• memory capacity has allowed a raft of new effects, such as namic Motion Memory, Gismo II software, expanded GPI, skew, ripple, cropping and zoom, perspective, Hand V flips alphanumeric reel names, and switcher M/E bank assign• and mirrors and many more. It is built around an infinite able from the editor's keyboard. In addition, CMX has window TBC and five-field framestore. upgraded its 3600 Edit System with a bootable 20 Mbyte • ALTA Group's (4526) latest intro in this field is the hard disk, which offers increased speed and more file Cygnus 5.5, a wideband TBC/synchronizer that supplies space. This option, which is retrofittable to existing 3600s, 5.5 MHz bandwidth in both composite and Y/C modes. It costs $3500. also provides 3 dB chrominance NR and has a new one-line • The new A34 Solo integrated post-production system chroma-luma delay for multiple generation color integ• from Abekas (2346), shown in a hospitality suite at rity. The Cygnus 5.5 meets RS-170A specs and includes a SMPTE, will make its official U.S. debut. This product wide variety of production effects. combines editing with time base correction, A/V switching and programmable digital effects. • United Media (5544) will introduce its Multi-Tasking Video Graphics Series of multisource video editors. •Look for Sony (4101) to enter the still store market with • Cinedco (7027), known for its Ediflex, will introduce the an innovative product using removable optical WORM Cineflex random-access video editor and the Audiflex digi• disks for true CCIR 601 digital component storage. Sony's tal audio workstation. "decentralized hardware-distributed software" approach •Also noteworthy: Comlux (3085) plans to unveil a multi• relies on linking a series of completely independent main• channel, all-digital telecine system. Convergence (1773) frames, each of which supports up to eight disk drives. A will unveil the Slo-Motion edit controller. control computer off each mainframe drives the system. Several computers may be tied together using the network port on the computer. A "jukebox" holding 50 disks can Digital Effects replace any single disk drive. • Industry leader Ampex Corp. (4501) will up the effects • Ampex's (4501) entry into the hot character generator ante with the introduction of a moderately priced addition market, Alex, will make its NAB debut. This midpriced to its ADO line, to be unveiled a day before the show opens. unit ($15,000 to $50,000) is positioned to compete with • Sony (4101) will unveil an "incredibly powerful" digital such high-end CGs as the Aston 4 and Chyron Scribe. It effects device. This high-end, high-priced unit will be posi• features 256 levels of both transparency and antialiasing, tioned to compete directly with the Ampex ADO 3000 and plus virtually unlimited manipulation and animation, Quantel Mirage and will link with Sony's new switchers. variable motion speed, an internal palette of 16 million • Pinnacle Systems (801) will premier the Prizm Video colors and effects such as metallics and glows. A unique Workstation, built on a modular, VLSI-based platform. feature is the ability to map characters to follow a curve. Options for the system include the Prizm Digital Optics • Dubner (4130) will introduce a number of enhancements system, featuring true 3D perspective, warp and curvilin• to its product line, including the new 30K character gen• ear effects, along with 1/32 sub-pixel motion resolution, erator and the GF-50, an upgraded version of the GF-30 smooth movement and 15-point antialias filtering. Other Graphics Factory. modules include an eight-bit linear key channel and Prizm •Harris Corp. (1305) will show the latest enhancements FreezeFile image storage. The system meets CCIR 601 for its Vws still store/video workstation, including charac• specs and features D-1 1/0. ter generation, 2D graphics, and 3D animation. • CEL Ltd. (at the James Grunder booth, 4177) has up• •Aston (7720), famous for its high-end character genera• graded its seven-bit efx/framestore/TBC system in a big tors, will show a new still store product. 54 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com • Look also for new product introductions from: Aurora (4956); BTS (4119); Chyron (4538); Digital FIX (7211); Intelligent Light (7105); Cubicomp (703); Wavefront (7217) and Symbolics (7017). Processing and Standards Conversion •Merlin Snell & Wilcox (5330) will introduce several ex• citing products: the ME 2001 high-definition downconver• ter for all HDTV standards; the ME 9900 multistandard four-field standards converter, now in full production; and the ME 8800 compact universal standards converter. •The 1ine of Stage *1 enhanced NTSC encoders and decod• ers from CDL (3944) will make its NAB debut with new additions and enhancements. •Thomson (5141)will introduce a new 4:2:2 digital compo• nent color corrector, the Colorado, which operates on indi• vidual and master gains, blacks, gammas, saturation RGB, with time code and memory. •The CVS-940A standards converter will premier at the Yamashita Engineering booth (3712). Thomson's Sportcam. CCD field camera. • Intelvideo (4478) will premier a dynamically enhanced NTSC coding technology. version of the EP-3. It uses a high-density interline frame • Look for a new line of component video encoders and transfer CCD chip that boosts its resistance to smear. decoders from Conrac (1741). Other features include over 700 lines of resolution, sensi• tivity off/6.2 at 2000 lux and 60 dB SIN. The NC-120 is a $13,000 CCD camera intended for the high-end pro or low• end broadcast market; it is a three-chip model with specs Automation almost as good as the SP-30. • Switching automation will take a step forward when •Sony (4101), never a slacker when it comes to new prod• Media Touch (2105) unveils its ARC-2000 software, which ucts, will add a new Betacam SP camcorder to its camera operates in conjunction with any audio switcher or mixer. line, which already includes the one-piece BVW-200 and Days of switching any input to any output plus start, stop, the BVP-7 CCD model. rewind, and recue instructions for analog machines can be • Panasonic Broadcast (4142) will demonstrate its half• set up weeks in advance. inch composite digital recorder, shown as an engineering • A new control room touchscreen console will add the prototype at SMPTE. It's expected that the deck's electron• crowning touch to Dynatech NewStar's (4526) popular ics, initially rack-mounted, will have shrunk down to newsroom automation system. A full news set and hourly VLSis for a compact and possibly portable unit. Also new newscasts will demonstrate NewStar's ability to automate from Panasonic will be the AK-450 camcorder. newscast production while controlling a fully electronic •Thomson Video Equipment (5141) will introduce several teleprompter, Betacart, character generator, still store new cameras. Among them: the Sportcam CCD stu• and robotic camera system. dio/field camera; TTV-1647 CCD ENG/EFP camera; and the TTV-1532, a high-end studio camera. The 1647 uses a new 768 pixels/line CCD sensor and operates over triax or Video Acquisition and Recording multicore. •Two new CCD cameras will be on view at the NEC booth •Sony's (4101) RAM Recorder, previously seen in proto• (3444). The SP-30, at approximately $25,000, is the ENG type, will be introduced as a product at NAB. The device is NAB1989N BME April 1989 55 www.americanradiohistory.com WHAT'S HOT built on a mainframe incorporating 60 seconds of video memory; memory is upgradable in 20-second modules to a RADIO/ AUDIO maximum of three minutes. The word in audio is "digital" once more, but digital with a •NEC (3444) will have further enhancements for its VSR- small "d." This is an NAB of consolidation as companies 10 solid state recorder, which now features a sports panel work to integrate digital technology into equipment that controller. has some practical use today. With the exception of outfit• •A new digital disk recorder will be introed by special efx ting new facilities or ground-up rebuilds, manufacturers specialist DSC (4538). know establishing digital audio as the medium of choice •Also hot: BTS (4119) will also unveil a new CCD studio will take several years of pounding the pavement. camera; JVC (4168) will premier a new CCD camera and "Cost effective" is another popular theme, and many new S-VHS VCRs. companies are extending ranges or enhancing products as a way to make new sales at price points that won't cause buyers heart failure. Advanced Television So the digital enthusiasts must wait for what they really While Congress debates the politics of ATV and the elec• want: effective, cheap, compatible mass storage. While a tronics industry focuses on economics, the broadcast in• technology like the erasable optical disk may finally kick dustry is developing ATV technology at an unprecedented the reluctant DAW market into takeoff, manufacturers in . pace. Two venues will showcase the latest: the NAB's own the meantime attempt to define and diversify their market Advanced Television exhibit, at the Convention Center, through areas like audio-for-video and film scoring. and the HDTV Pavilion sponsored by the 1125/60 Group at While some interesting products from Valley foretell the the Tropicana Hotel. A few highlights: future for digital signal processing, new entries from com• • Rank Cintel (710) will show an updated version of the panies like Ampex, Eventide, Lexicon and Dolby continue MkIII HD 1125/60 flying spot scanner. It will be exhibited to prove there's life and high quality in analog yet. An• with an advanced Amigo preprogrammer for color correc• other hot category for stations is telephone interfaces for tion in the Tropicana. Rank has announced that it will call-in talk shows. See Gentner for starters. support all HDTV standards including 1050 lines, and has Despite political problems which continue to inhibit already shown a 1250/50 version. commercial consumer development in the U.S., DAT may • Rebo Research, also at the Tropicana, will have a line of be coming into its own. Look also for new or improved new equipment for HDTV production, including a entries for AM stereo, NRSC and FMX. fiberoptic transmission system, a downconverter, and a framestore. The framestore is based on the Macintosh II and includes graphics. Mies and Intercoms • BTS's (4119) TAS/TVS 2001 HDTV video/audio routing •Clear-Com (5346-49) adds the Matrix Plus fully digitized switcher system, with full 30 MHz bandwidth, will be matrix system to its line of standard analog intercom sys• shown. tems; also see the Model 1020/M self-contained stereo am• •Thomson Video Equipment (5141) will unveil a progres• plified monitor speaker system. McCurdy (1755) will fea• sive-scan EDTV studio camera dubbed "Proscan." ture its new CS9500 digital intercom system, 50 x 50 in •Test equipment for HDTV is beginning to appear. Magni and 3RU. Systems (3173) will pull the wraps from a programmable • There'll be a host of new mies from which to choose. HDTV generator, while Tektronix (3700) will unveil a Shure (1517) adds its new Beta Series dynamic mies to its new HDTV generator family. SM series professional line. The Beta 58 is for music • Sierra Video Systems (7904) will have a new keyer for vocals; the Beta 57 for musical instruments. Vega HDTV, the CIK-1. Toko America's (7100) HDTV (3846/47), meanwhile, announces the T-88 Pro Plus and framestore is also worthy of note. Beyer Dynamic (3738/39) bows the MCE 86 shotgun and • Don't forget to check out the established ATV/HDTV the SI86 and TS 190 wireless mic systems. Micron Audio players for the latest developments, including Sony (4101), (5772) has new wireless mies. Ikegami (5305), Hitachi (4519) and Faroudja (5733). •Watch for more products geared toward ENG and small- 56 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com ONE TOUCH ... AND YOU'LL SHIFT TO LEITCH Once you get your hands on a STILL FILEby Leitch, you won't want to let go. The reason is simple ... the STILLFILEis the best designed still store on the market ... fully integrated and with a host of features that are as easy as the touch of a button. Call Leitch today for a hands-on demonstration, and we'll even leave a STILL FILEat your studio for awhile. We're confident we won't have to pick it up again. 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The perfect lens for outdoor events like cameras. the Super Bowl and the Calgary Olympics where the The J50X9.5BIE is designed for outstanding per• J50X was put into action. Featuring a 50X zoom ratio, formance on both 2/3" tube and CCD cameras. And f14 maximum aperture, and an effective focal length with a weight of JUSI 36 lbs , these credentialsare even of 9.5 to 950mm, thanks to its built-in 1.5X and 2X more impressive.Simply stated,the J50X represents extenders. Any way you look at it, the J50X9.5 gives the most advanced design in optical technology avail• you incredible reach. Yet,it's great indoors too, with a able to the broadcast industry today. "here is no better minimum object distance of 7.2 feet and macrofocus• lens to meet the tough professionalstandards of elec• ing to 20 inches. Plus the usual high M.TF, minimized tronic field production. 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Anchor Audio (3451/2) introduces the consoles, audio test equipment, intercoms and the show's series 400, a hardwired party-line intercom system which hot product category, telco interface equipment. Broadcast accommodates up to 40 belt-pack stations. Also new: tele• Audio's (1053) Series VI is completely modular up to 24 phone interfaces, voltage-controlled amplifers and remote mixers with standard audio follow video control, while control additions to the ARMS 7000 virtual routing audio Harrison (1116) enters the AP-100 and Neotek bows the routing switcher. Samson (2310-08)will launch new porta• Esprit for post-production. Orion (3068), something of an ble wireless transmitters and receivers for ENG, including innovator in digital on-air consoles for radio/TV, adds the the Infinity with dbx noise reduction. AFV/8 + 8 editing system first seen at SMPTE to its SoundStar post-production lineup. • Across-the-board entries come from Neve and Radio Technologies: Test Equipment Amek/Tak. Amek/Tak (2008/18) offers the Tac Bullet, the and Enhancements Amek BCII and the Amek Classic-a field portable mixer, • Inovonics (1473) launches a digitally synthesized FM an on-air console and a production console. Neve (2407) stereo generator which includes a plug-in option for FMX. will launch the 66 series on-air console and make the new • Circuit Research Laboratories (CRL) (1009) supports VR production console first seen at the Hamburg AES last NRSC and AM stereo with the PMC 450 tri-band peak month available for hands-on demonstration. VR enhance• modulation controller and the SMP 950 tri-band matrix ments include the option of resetting controls to stored processor. Both feature precise implementation of the configurations; an upgrade program has been developed NRSC standard. for V series users. •Delta Electronics (1159) launches a production version of •Also note: International Music (7440) will show the new its noise generator for test signal applications. Akai digital samplers (models SlOOO,SlOOOHD,SlOOOPB, • TFT (2115) adds frequency-agile high-level inputs and S950) for people who want to make their own noises with• built-in absence of carrier and modulation alarms to the out moving into digital audio workstations. 844A FM aural modulation monitor. It also launches the Model 8888 RPU. Digital Audio Workstations • WaveFrame (7817) brings to market its long-awaited Cart Decks and Automation universal digital interface module for the AudioFrame • Fidelipac (1117) bows an enhanced version of the digital audio workstation. CTR30R three-deck cartridge recorder. • Symetrix (2304/6) enters the digital recording arena • Digital studio automation innovators Concept Produc• with the DPR-100, an adaptive hybrid disk-based process• tions (1453-1455) will launch the CAPS II computer as• ing recorder. Also new: the SX205 precision level sisted programming system based on DAT decks. The sys• indicator. tem has 120 hours of full random access storage for • AKG Acoustics (2043) will launch its DSE 7000 digital automated, live or satellite programming operation. Inno• sound editor. A RAM-based work station, it combines an vative Automation (1603) extends its line of cost-effective eight-track recorder, editor and mixing system. analog automation systems, adding the Di-Trol Jr. • AMS/Calrec (1134) upgrades the AudioFile with ADR software and combines it with the new Logic 1 digital audio mixer to form a workstation. Consoles and Production • Lexicon (2327) is now shipping the Opus 1 for produc• • A slew of on-air and production consoles will make air tion, post-production, commercial and mastering applica• freight shipping a nightmare. Wheatstone (1034/40) tions. It now offers 12 channels of integrated digital EQ. launches the A-500as on-air radio console which sequen• New signal processing products: software upgrades for the tially controls cart machine banks. Also new: the SP6a 2400 stereo audio time compressor/expander and the 480L stereo production console with full external machine con• digital effects system. 2400 Version 3.0 provides new ma• trol and internal console logic, and the 822 stereo selector chine interfaces; 480L Version 3.0 provides digital stereo audio routing switcher. Ward Beck (5319) bows new on-air two-band and mono four-band parametric EQ programs. NAB1989NA EME April 1989 61 www.americanradiohistory.com WHAT'S HOT • Filling the gap while the DAT industry attempts to protocol via MIDI port. standardize itself, Fostex (5280) presents its four-head • SSL (2005) features ScreenSound, a multitrack hard D20 DAT digital master recorder, first seen at AES. The disk-based digital audio editing, mixing and recording sys• unit has SMPTE time code, sync to video, off-tape monitor• tem. It interfaces with VTR/VCRs, film reproducers with ing and immediate punch in/out. Also new: the RS eight• full machine control and Quante! digital production sys• track recorder with detachable remote control front panel. tems via HARRY for off-line video and film post produc• Compatible with most synchronizers; MIDI option. tion and audio-for-video editing. Recording Equipment Signal Processing • Revox (1261) shows the PR99 MKIII Compact two-chan• • Valley International (2030/32), a pioneer in digital nel recorder, while Studer bows the A827-24 multichannel equipment with radio applications, launches its long• recorder, the A764 professional FM monitor tuner and• anticipated DCE digital compressor/expander. It joins the sure to be a show-stopper-the A729 CD system controller. DDP digital dynamic processor formerly seen in prototype. Tascam (5577) will also show CD control first seen at last • Analog audio processing equipment new here includes fall's AES. Gentner's (2127) Phoenix Audio Prism, Orban's (1630) • Look for DAT everywhere. Leaders of the pack start at Optimod-HF 91051 audio processing system for interna• Harris (1305) for the XD-OOlUH broadcast quality unit. tional shortwave and 764B programmable parametric • Note: Many distributors-Allied and Schafer World equalizer/notch filter with optional RS-422, RS-232 and Communication among them-will be showing DTRs, ei• MIDI interfaces, and the "cost-effective" hands-on BD940 ther as standalones or part of packages. delay unit from Eventide (2535). New software versions of the Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer tailor it for on-air production or post (Studio Ultra-Harmonizer) and for Post-Production broadcast (H3000B), with cart and varispeed tape control. •Two important companies are entering this volatile cate• Dolby Labs (1457) will launch a new noise reduction unit, gory for the first time. The first is Sony (4101), drawing on the Model 363/SDV4, while the Aphex (1058/62) Model its professional audio expertise to offer a 24-channel digi• 250 Type III aural exciter first seen at SMPTE makes its tal audio-for-video mixer. The second is Cinedco (7027), bow at Vegas. HoweTech (1465) will bring the ATC-35 which is entering with a digital audio-for-video editor. PhaseChaser audio time base corrector, also seen first at Cinedco's Audiflex will first be used in film and video post SMPTE, to Las Vegas, where it will expand its HoweTech production but the design is expandable to full DAW func• lOK console/mixer series. tions including music editing and SFX production. Cinedco is also launching the Cineflex random access video editor. Audio Test Equipment • On the console automation front, Harrison (1116) • Digital testing by itself is not new, but digitally based launches a Macintosh II-based hard disk automation sys• analysis and synthesis of audio frequency signals in both tem for its Series Ten automated console and teams with the analog and digital domains is very new. The System George Massenberg to create an inline multitrack record• One Dual Domain from Audio Precision (2044) can gener• ing, production and post-production recording system. ate either analog or digital at one end and analyze either Designated "MR-20", the system combines Harrison elec• analog or digital at the other. The system also features tronics and the GML moving fader automation. enhanced analog measurement capability. • Adams-Smith (2505/11) adds automatic track selection, •The trend in audio test equipment is toward increasing VTR motion control and C:SOUND still-frame and slow sophistication and performance at decreasing prices. The motion sound editing to the company's 2600 A/V Audio• 3200B programmable audio signal generator, at $4380, for-Video Editor. Among the new features for the Zeta• and the 3100B autoranging audio analyzer, at $5660, both Three Audio-video-MIDI synchronizer are multiple tempo from Sound Technology (4577), are two cases in point. map banks, MIDI metronome and Adams-Smith serial These portable units offer three modes of operation-man- 62 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com ual, automatic, and computer-driven using an external PC • Doubling the maximum power rating of the Harris with menu-driven software. The generator can store 99 (1305)line ofdigitally modulated solid-state AM transmit• test panels in battery-backed RAM and send them all to ters is the new 50 kW DX-50.The 86 percent efficiency of the analyzer at the touch of a button. this remarkable transmitter is achieved by digital modu• • A unique method of testing the phase relation of two lation which is accomplished by digitally turning amplifi• stereo channels is provided by the 1200 stereo signal test ers on and offwhile the sum oftheir outputs is totaled in a set from Dorrough Electronics (1035). The instrument, a master RF combiner. The FlexPatch feature ensures con• modern version of the classic "Gain Set," allows measure• tinued safe operation even if a power amplifier should fail. ment down to -75 dB and is the only test set available with •In the two years since FMX was introduced at the 1987 the capability of measuring the stereo program signal in NAB convention, some 100 stations have begun FMX both the sum and difference formats, according to the transmissions. The system uses an additional stereo manufacturer. subcarrier to provide stereo coverage equivalent to mon• • Amber Electro Design (2209) will show an enhanced aural coverage at the same power. The new Inovonics version of its AudioCheck software, which is designed to (1473) Model 706 FM/FMX digital stereo generator will control the Amber 5500 series of audio test equipment and improve on the original model 705 by adding the ability to has the built-in ability to control audio test equipment accommodate radio data service subcarriers, providing from any manufacturer by using the industry standard front panel instrumentation of internal functions and al• IEEE 488 bus. New features include an expanded graphi• lowing remote control of some functions. Broadcast Tech• cal capability, faster operation, enhanced ease of use and nology Partners (2249) will also show the 706. greatly enlarged sample and example files. • Nautel (1065), the perennial leader in solid-state AM • Something new in audio monitoring is the series 190 transmitters, is extending its Ampfet line in the direction audio line monitor/bridging switcher from Anchor Audio of lower power by adding a 5 kW transmitter, the ND-5. (3451). The 190 series features eight monaural or 16 stereo This is essentially a smaller version of the Ampfet ND-10 inputs and can function as a routing switcher. The oper• introduced at last year's NAB and has the same specifica• ator selects one of the inputs to become the output, listens tions, including 125 percent positive peak capability to 5.6 to the quality of the selected signal, and adjusts the audio kW, a flat frequency response from de to 10 kHz, virtually level based on a meter reading in volume units. no square wave tilt, IM distortion of less than 1 percent, and IQM better than 36 dB. • Television Technology (3500) will unveil the highest powered domestic FM solid state transmitter yet produced RF/ AUTOMATION when they show the 4.0 kW FMS-4000. This will be the In radio transmitters, solid state AM is well entrenched first ofa line which will include units rated at 1 kW, 2 kW and multiplying, but the trend in FM above 4 kW is to a and 8 kW. FETs will be employed throughout for improved hybrid design consisting of solid state with a one- or two• performance and efficiency. The unit will occupy about 3/i tube output stage. The rage in TV transmitters for of a rack, be cooledby air and incorporate the proven solid klystrode in UHF and solid-state in VHF continues hot state model X exciter. and heavy, but the big news is the air-cooled klystrode • Energy-Onix (1730-1732) will introduce five solid state which offers reduced size and cost and should be with us FM transmitters ranging in power from 100 W to 2 kW. In for some time. addition, they will show for the first time five single-tet• rode FM transmitters ranging in power from 1.5 kW to 12 kW and six two-tetrode FM transmitters ranging in power Radio Transmitters from 15 kW to 50 kW. In all cases, the intermediate power Solid state rules the roost in AMtransmitters, but not FM, amplifiers and driver sections will be solid state. Zero• and the reason is purely economic. FM frequency in solid biased tetrodes will be used because they don't require the state at more than 2 kW comesdear and while some manu• complex circuitry associated with pentodes. facturers are testing the upper limit, no one is ready to • Delta Electronics (1159) has a new AM stereo exciter, price himself out of the market. the ASE-1, along with a new radio transmitter remote NAB1989N EME April 1989 63 www.americanradiohistory.com WHAT'S HOT monitoring/remote control system, the RCS-lV. Delta will • Harris (1305) will enter the all-solid-state VHF TV also unveil the AMP-1 audio processor with NRSC. transmitter market with the 30 kW HT30HS. Since the • Bext (7913) will exhibit new FM amplifiers rated at 800 middle of February, this transmitter, which is also avail• W, 1.5 kW and 2 kW. The very compact amps measure 25 able in power ratings up to 60 kW, has been in continuous inches deep, 14 inches high and 19 inches wide for easy operation at KYW-TV in Philadelphia. Modular design rack mounting. allows the on-line replacement of 1 kW power amplifiers without service interruption and an optional redundant exciter and exciter switching further reduce the chance of Television Transmitters catastrophic failure. • Comark (5141), which first offered the klystrode two • Another fully solid-state VHF transmitter is the 20 kW years ago, will enter the market for air-cooled klystrodes dual-drive model EVHF 20000 DD from Thomson-LGT by introducing a line of transmitters having power ratings (Cornark booth, 5141). Features include broadband ampli• up to 120 kW based on a 30 kW, UHF amplifier, the CTT• fication, TV stereo and a built-in regulated power supply. UA-30. The CTT-U-35SKC, a 35 kW UHF klystrode trans• Thomson-LGT will also show three smaller UHF trams• mitter from Comark, will feature high efficiency, excellent mitters. The 2 kW dual-drive solid-state EUHF 2000 DD linearity, low drive requirements and reasonable price. will feature full broadband operation and built-in regu• The CTT-U-lSS is a solid-state, 1 kW UHF transmitter lated power supply, while the 200 W RUHF 200 S transla• intended for the low-power TV market. Also new is an 80 tor will claim extreme linearity and a low noise figure. The kw UHF klystrode, the CTT-U-80SKM. last of these, the 10 W low-power translator, RUHF 10 S, is •Television Technology (3500) will offer the UHF-60MA, designed to operate from a solar energy supply. a 60 kW air-cooled klystrode transmitter. The unit will • Telettra (3086) will debut its DTV-45 video codec for 45 feature high efficiency and a redundant design, accom• Mbit/s digital transmission systems. DTV-45 employs the plished by using two 30 kW klystrodes. Also on display discrete cosine transform algorithm and is a TV codec for will be the XL-1200, a 1 kW, part-73 UHF transmitter transmission of a television program plus associated sig• with a built-in remote interface. nals into a DS3 channel at 44.736 Mbit/sec. Conversion •Varian (5300) will show its latest transmitter develop• between composite and component formats is accom• ments using the MDSC klystron. plished by swapping I/O cards. • Larcan (3562) will unveil the TTS-30M, an all-solid• state, 30 kW VHF model that employs FET semiconduc• tors for excellent linearity and reliability. The self-con• Weather Radar and Graphics tained unit, seven feet wide and 3.5 feet deep, is available • Ground clutter suppression, preservation of important in power levels from 250 W to 60 kW. Also new from weather information, and the first national and regional Larcan will be a pair of CCIR-standard transmitters, the radar images composited from data gathered simulta• 5 kW TTS-5MH and 10 kW TTS-lOMH. Both employ all• neously from multiple radar sites are the shining features solid-state FET technology and are designed for CCIR of WSI's new NOWrad service (3774). NOWrad offers standards in band 3. weathercasters the first national composite radar image •With most of the TV transmitter industry going to solid using radar data that is only minutes old and up to 48 state for VHF, NEC (3444) continues to offer a choice be• archived images for tracing developments over time. tween solid-state and tube. NEC's 30 kW highband, one• •The new Advanced Weather Graphics System from ESD tube-with-solid-state-aurals VHF transmitter will go on (5461) will feature improved art and animation capabili• display as the PCN1430AH/1. Four solid-state drives will ties together with a more detailed and better defined pic• provide the aural output while two solid-state drives and ture combining both satellite and ground observations for the final tetrode will provide the visual output. Also, for greater accuracy. the first time from NEC, an all-solid-state, 30 kW, •The new DWSR-88CTV,Doppler weather radar system highband VHF transmitter, the PCN1430SSH, will be from Enterprise Electronics (3870) "sees" wind and fea• shown. A 60 kW, klystron UHF transmitter, the tures a radius range of 300 miles and 70 to 98 percent PCU960HC, will round out NEC's offerings. ground clutter cancellation. • 64 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com etwor • Our clj0riLs l1etve c e r rei r.T y app r e c i a t e d t lr e cost savings, anó evPrycne l1Bs enjoyed the extra ti~e sat.ellite hns provideC! us. CycJe--Seit l1é1s proven that se t.e Lt í t e is c:1 very vial:-J e D€:1-hoC t o c1istr ibute corcr.re r c i.e J s. - Dana Geiken,DMB & B ur :i.ssJc1.1tt.cr1 1o1ui ;'yc¡?-~F r1~s bi?"L xn C·XClti.íl~ :,1cf [01' .1:0:. C-!'L'ie-~at t.a s rn&.rje it .~it~ier :~.Jr J~- 1.'J l'i:flc10:'= :lpcl. T.V. Ouy:i: i r: !!!•d::ri~r:r.:·k0~:. - Merle !#!Leh,Foote,Coneand Beiding We have become accustomed to the ease and reliability of receiving commercial spots via satellite. We are also impressed with the flexibility of the system in regard to getting refeeds and special feeds. We look forward to a long working relationship. - Karl Hagnauer KPLR Our experience at WGN-TV with Cycle-Sat !1asbeen quite positive. The system has been very reliuble and the convenience of receiving the commercials in non-primctime has been helpful in scheduling our tape machines. Our equipment has been freed for production use during the prime hours. -Robert Stmtzel, WGNTV The quality and reliability of the hardware ~nd software is outstanding. It's error free in its operation, and the speed with which we receive commercial feeds saves us make-goods and lost ti~e. -]£m Martin, WOAYTV If you still haven't joined the Cycle Sat network, check out the reception we're getting from people who have. Visit us at N.A.B. Booth 3184 and we'll tell you more. Or just give us a call at Cycle ...Sat 1-800-622-1865. A CommunicationsNetwork 1 <:y ch- Sal. 1989 Circle 126 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com Booth 4142 e 1989 Ma:suS''"ta Eecncoc cc-cc-euco cl A..••enea Just when broadcasters and professional users mind. Our editing recorders and systems work with are shifting from one-inch and 3/4-inch video tape all of today's existing standards for video, audio and systems to 1/2-inch analog component video, along control. When you're ready to convert your editing comes the specter of 19mm D2. First they made it suite to Composite Digital video, Panasonic will fit in. smaller; now they want to make it bigger again. Panasonic cameras, from our new, all solid• When Panasonic set out to design Composite state AK-450 to the new all-digital DPC-1, are Digital recording systems, we had a big responsibility designed to slip transparently into the operators' -to keep it small. Our customers have a right to experienced hands. expect their investment in 1/2-inch to be preserved. Today's mobile teleproduction requirements We know that a change in technology means more include everything from commercial production to than a change in equipment; walls, racks, layouts, fast-breaking news. That's why our system design is suites, vans and tape storage are all long-term built around interchangeable components and true investments that shouldn't have to be re-done every portability-and will remain so from1oday to digital to time there's a new chip on the block. HDTV. Panasonic's new Composite Digital system not Here's the bottom line. Television in the 1990's only delivers superior multi-generation capability, demands technical advances and irmovations• long-term signal stability and unprecedented digital video and HDTV.But your demands are for operating ease. It is designed to fit right where it systems that permit smarter, leaner operations. And should-into your existing facilities. that is why Panasonic's broadcast equipment, both Panasonic's design philosophy is always to for today and tomorrow, is designed to fit into your create products for the future with today clearly in plant, your vision and your budget. 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APHEX ASSOCIATED AUDIO SYSTEMS 1058-1062 COMPUTER DEVELOPMENTS 3465 New: Model 800 studio SERVICES 7121 Field portable mixers; on-air clock; Model 250 Type II au• Graphics. weather graphics & consoles. mixers; post-pro• ral exciter. Audio processors. production software for the duction consoles. Amiga; Amiga genlock APOLLOAUDIO devices. AUDIO KINETICS 2414 VISUAL 7535· 7537 ATRsynchronizers; audio Lenses (Raynox); lamps; ASSOCIATED console automation. Raynoxvideo slide transfer PRODUCTION system; studio furniture. MUSIC 1641 Music/sound efx libraries. See ad on p. 138 BME April 1989 71 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING I AUDIO consoles. BAF COMMUNICATIONS ------PRECISION 2044-2046 CORP. 7835 New:System Onedual do- I AUTOMATED BUSINESS SNGsystems. 1 main audio test equip.; OSP CONCEPTS 2539-2541 audio test set. Radiobusiness automation. BAL COMPONENTS 7740 AUDIO-TECHNICA AVCOMOF BARCO 5463 I U.S. 1631 VIRGINIA 5114 NTSCencoders/decoders; NAB Mies, accessories. Audio test equip.; SCPC video monitors. LAS VEGAS downconverters& demodu- AUDIOPAK 1653 lators; satellite earth sta- BARRETT ASSOC. 1041 1 9 8 9 Audiotape. tions; spectrum analyzers, sweep generators. BASYS 5568 AUDITRONICS 1363 See ad on p. 79 New: Basysmachine control Post-productionconsoles; system. Cart automation/ ·¡-.,...---~---..•..--~II mix-minussystem. B&B MERPS;electronic still SYSTEMS 3873-3874 stores; character generators; AURORA SYSTEMS 4956 Audio phase monitors; studio production switchers; robotic New:20 graphics systems. design & construction; camera systems; telepromp• I 30 modeling, animation. technical/engineering ters; newsroomcomputers. * consultant. I I I AUTOGRAM 1026 BCS--THE BROADCAST * New:On-airconsoles, mix• B.C., INC. 7834 I STORE 7235, 7237 ers; post-production Broadcastequip. distributor. TIMECODE EDITING ...LIVING DANGEROUSLY? ·---·· ~0"'111~ -oces ,..,.,'!";~ '>l·.·:w.i~·~ '~AMIS -----'fi'l ~ O"ll í1J:f !In.... !.&.:I /' •~Ü - -l -, - -l - - o· 2' 4' fl"" II"" /_.. I I , ~ • ' I ti I I I fl U(ll( g.-r ------<3 [> 1 ! f I ' I I f f f 1 f = ;;J:.~ i:: .__ fil't..:C :(WI &:l tlfll llO"..Q. --: ; ...._, ~-I~ lll.."1 IK";.<,( • ~ ~ __ 5'_ !•..•_ CJ 'V ,'.."• .,.' ~ ·.\.'' ' ,e. '- Not if you have the new ADx-02 Timecode Analyzer. The ADx-02 is being used around the world in a va• This is a sophisticated test instrument, as well as a riety of environments and applications. But the di• fully functional reader-generator with video Key and agnostics function is not the end of the story, the L.E.D. displays. It can save you time and money. ADx-02 is a very versatile timecode reader• Finding timecode errors on tape before an edit is at• generator-inserter, with multiple screen displays, tempted, or matching color frames and ScH phase, selectable fonts, three jam-sync modes, stable code or tracking on a Betacam is easy. For the engineer, it generation, full speed range read and much more. can be the quickest way to set tape speed, realign So why buy just a timecode reader-generator? video play-back heads or check an audio synchronizer The ADx-02. The only timecode unit that can for wow. Eachtimecodebit is displayedgraphically. safely save you money. ADK Systems Inc. The World Leader 274 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 in Timecode For more information contact you local ADx dealer or call us at 1-800-444-4-A-D·X. 72 BME April 1989 Circle 131 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com l - Built bv Shook Electronic Enterprises,Inc., Sar; Antonio Perfection is Priority. For eight year-. John Crowe Productions • 6 BTS (Philips) • 32 input full stereo audio mixer has set the standards in remote television LDK-6A cameras • 2 Chvron 4100 EXB w/CCM, production. We never forget that our clients • 2 lkegami HL 79E-E cameras MCivi, hard disk deserve the best in performance from the.JC!' • 6 Canon 40Xl lens (Philips) • 1Abekas AS3D DYE with warp equipment, and now JCP presents a producers • 2 Canon 18Xl lens (Ikegami) • 1 Abekas A 42 Still Store dream. A 48-fcxit production trailer featuring • 4 Sony BVH 3100 1" Vl'Rs • RTS 12 channel PL/IFB w/6 802 a 3-tiered production area that will comfortably • Grass Valley 24 input, 3 M/E, stations accommodate the most complex production. w/Master E-MEM production • 45 monitors in production area Completely compatible with JCP'sother mobile switcher units, #4 features; .JCPnow offers three "Look-Alike" mobile units with 16 BTS (Philips) LDK-6A cameras, 8 Ikegarni HL 79 cameras, 13 Sony 1" YTR'.~and 6 Chyrons, all available anywhere in the nation, plus permanent facilities in the Summit in Houston, Texas. SUPERB PICTURE QUALITY "Based on our experience with the BTS (Philips) cameras, I saw no reason to change", john Crowe said, "and when you consider that 10 of our existing LDK6 cameras are being upgraded to the LDK-6A's it's a real bonus forJCP Where else in the country could you get 16 look alike cameras." The LDK-6A is a future proof camera with frequent improve• ments offering the program producer consistently superb picture quality over the short and long term. Rugged, reliable, rainproof, and able to work over a wide range of temperatures. the LDK-6A performs to perfection when perfection is priority. John Crowe Productions Houston 10 Greenway Plaza Houston, Texas77046 (713) 627-9270 3 Dallas Communications Complex 6311 N. O'Connor Rd. Suite 102 Irving, Texas75039 (214) 556-1816 www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com and A-type module: Cat. with-accurate veri• No. 3SO~SR ficarionof decode module only, 0 Multi-tum level; .• R~layccontrólled calibration JeZ,els and the Cat. Né'. contro"lsorí~di . · ''hard;¡ 6ypáss of• and playback 45Ó-A-type channel-Ior all'~ircuitry. frequencyresponse. module only. setting allJe•.els. Front panel control of Cenera.es record/pla,: -Dolby femefor 'Allows S.Witc;hing.¡:::a'nk' ,· _A~{ypeprDolby cheCklng'of ¡lso-beswiffheci ~ E} '4•hb1Slf0r SR- «"'( the non~ t!nder~tane r- -~~ alt.'Sác1i~at~s · decoded signa! recorderremote Auto- Compare.-'I"!'~ from tape mode for SR during record• processing, alignment. ingor playback. or SR. z- ~lmbiSW9~~01-TIO-t111, :[)[] DolbylÍ~>f' 1·~r;-~·t7sm546 ·i·-,f ---:~;,.,.;~,~;'12~ www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING BEAVERONICS BENCHMARK MEDIA BIRD ELECTRONIC 1726-1728 SYSTEMS 3780 CORP. 1552 New: Favag LED50 digital Mic preamps; audio test Audio test equip.; remote clock; ESEES-CG89charac• equip.; System 1000 audio monitoring systems; RF ter generator. Favag & ESE DAs; IFAsystems; wire, ca• power measurement & master clock systems; ESE ble; connectors, jackfields. termination. timers; downstream keyers; custom video switching sys• BEXT, INC. 7913 BOGEN PHOTO tems; video hum stop coils. New: FM amps. CORP. 5744 NAB Lighting equip. LAS VEGAS BELAR ELECTRONICS BEYER DYNAMIC 3738· LABORATORY 1352 3739 BOGNER BROADCAST 1 9 8 9 Demodulators, modulation New: Shotgun mic, wireless EQUIP. 5174 1 monitors, frequency monitors mic system; headphones. Antennas, towers. & controllers. Equip. distributor. See ad on p 137 BOONTON BHP 7517-7519 ELECTRONICS BELDEN ELECTRONIC VTReditor/controllers; CORP. 2525 WIRE & CABLE 2431 multisource video editors; Modulation monitors; RFtest Wire, cable; connectors, random access editors. equip. jackfields. BIRCH/SCARBOROUGH BENCHER 4584 RESEARCH 5770 Video copy stands. Ratings service. Blow Out 15-25o/o ,.. Made To NAB Special Longer Last Longer Run Time -Special introductory pricing •Full 4.5Ah capacity -Higher beginning voltage -Full 4.5Ah capacity runs equipment up to 25% •Easily accessible exterior fuse -Automatic resettable circuit longer breaker -Choose black, gray or white -High capacity (1.8Ah) cells ·Contact authorized repre• ·Contact authorized repre• sentative for details ·Made in USA sentative for details ·Contact authorized repre• sentative for details ~Alexander® ~Alexander® ~Alexander® • _ Batteries ~Batteries t~ Batteries PO Box 1508, Mason City, IA 50401 PO Box 1508, Mason City, IA 50401 PO Box 1508, Mason City, IA 50401 Call toll free 1-800-247-1821 Call toll free 1-800-247-1821 Call toll free 1-800-247-1821 Circle 170 on Reader Service Card Circle 171 on Reader Service Card Circle 172 on Reader Service Card www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING BOWEN BROADCAST I BROADCAST VIDEO CAL SWITCH 4882 CENTRAL DYNAMICS SERVICE 3429-3430 SYSTEMS 3426 LTD. 3944 VTR heads, electronics; New: NTSC encoders/ CALZONE CASE New: Stage*1 NTSC Technical/engineering decoders; Masterkey II linear I CO. 3416 encoders/decoders; SDS-2 + consultant. , keyer; safe area generator, 1 Transportation cases. routing switchers. Production time/date/indent generator. switchers (Strata). BRADLEY BROADCAST Video test equip. CAM-LOK 3481-3482 SALES 2301 I CENTRAL TOWER 1004 Equip. distributor. BROADCASTERS I Antennas, towers; equip. dis- GENERAL STORE 7327 CAMERA MART 5551 tributar; technical/ BRETFORD MFG. 5782 Equip. distributor. Lenses; ENG/EFPcameras; engineering consultant. Cart automation/MERPS. camcorders; video monitors; BRUEL & KJAER 7431 I video test equip.; character CENTRO CORP. 4956 WALTERS. BREWER Mies, accessories. I generators; 2D graphics sys• ENG/EFPvehicles; SNG sys• CORP. 4777 tems; 3D modeling, anima• tems; studio furniture; studio Studio & remote lighting BRYSTON LTD. 2148 I tion; digital video effects; design & construction; mo• equip.; power supplies, bat• Other audio (audio amps & I VTR editor/controllers; bile vehicle construction; teries; wire, cable; connec• preamps). multisource video editors; techn ica l/engi neeri ng tors, jackfields; tools; light• camera support equip. consultant. ing system design & I BSM BROADCAST See ad on p. 88-89 consultation. SYSTEMS 2237 CENTURY 21 PRO· I New: MC switchers. Routing CANARE GRAMMING 1621-1.623 BROADCAST AUDIO ¡ switchers, DAs; audio routing CABLE 5755-5756 ¡ Compact disc equip.; CORP. 1053 switchers. New: Component cable, 75 music/sound efx libraries. New: Series VI on-air audio ohm video jack coax. Wire, consoles. Studio monitors; BSW/BROADCAST cable; connectors, CENTURY PRECISION audio DAs. SUPPLY WEST 2015 jackfields; tools. OPTICS 3470 Equip. distributor. New: Lenses. BROADCAST I CANON USA-OPTICS AUTOMATION 7226 BYS/BROADCAST DIV. 3955 CHANNELMATIC 5519 New: Studio automation I TELEVISION New: Lenses. Camera sup- Cart automation/MERPS; equip. Compact disc equip. SYSTEMS 4119 I port equip. switching automation; rout• New: Character generators; 1 See ad on p. 58-59 ing switchers, DAs; clocks, BROADCAST ELEC. 3D modeling, animation; timers. SVCES. 1205 routing switchers, DAs; con- I CARPEL VIDEO 3848 On-air consoles, mixers; cart trol system); 2D graphics CHAPMAN/LEONARD decks; turntables; studio systems. Studio cameras; CASCOM 7727 I VIDEO EQUIP. A.177 automation equip. ENG/EFPcameras; 3D modeling, animation; dig• See ad on p. 8 camcorders; HDTV produc• ital video effects; graphics/ CHESTER tion equip.; color correctors; special efx facility. CABLE/ALCATEL 5203 BROADCAST telecines; MC switchers; Wire, cable. ELEC.SVCES. 923 I switching automation. DWIGHT I See ad on p. 126-127 CAVENDISH 5470 CHRISTIE BROADCAST Telecines. I ELECTRIC 3441 MICROWAVE BURLE I Tape erasers, degaussers; SERVICES 1718 I INDUSTRIES 4048 I CBSI 1253 power supplies, batteries. New: STLs, TSLs; ENG micro- Transmitter, power tubes. New: Business automation. wave; intercity microwave; CHYRON 4538 power supplies, batteries. BYTE BY BYTE 7900 I CCA ELECTRONICS 1047 New: 2D graphics systems. I Radio transmitters. I Character generators. BROADCAST I CABLEWAVE See on p. 37. PRODUCTS 2426 SYSTEMS 5100 CEL ELECTRONICS 4177 Antennas, towers; connec• New: TBCs; frame syn- I CINE 60 4019-4020 BROADCAST TECH. tors, jackfields. chronizers; standards conver- New: multi-function batter- PARTNERS 2249 tors; electronic still stores; ies. Power supplies, FMX broadcasting system. digital video effects. batteries. 78 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com CINEDCO 7027 accessories. MTS equip.; AM video editors; random access New: Cineflex random-ac• stereo equip.; SCAequip. editors; electronic audio edi• cess video editor. Audioflex tors. digital audio workstation. CIRCUITSTUDIOS 3963 Ediflex random access New: Velocity 3D modeling COAXIAL editors. and animation system. DYNAMICS 2527 Other RF,general. CINEMA PRODUCTS CLEAR-COM 5346-5349 CORP. 3758-3760 New: Intercoms. Studio mon• COHERENTCOMMUNI- NAB Lighting equip.; camera sup• itors; audio test equip.; tel co CATIONS 7618 LAS VEGAS port equip interface equip. Field portable consoles. 1 9 8 9 CINEMILLSCORP. 3181 CMCTECHNOLOGY,DIV. COLORADOVIDEO 3913 1 Lighting equip. OFDATATAPE 4253 New: Colorizers, field/ New: Refurbish BVHupper framestores, video noise re• CIPHERDIGITAL 3574 drums. VTRheads, electron- ducers. Weather New: CDl-4810 phantom VTR les: tape erasers, degauss• radar/graphics. emulator. Tape synchroniz• ers; heads, accessories. ers; electronic audio editors COLORGRAPHICS (Softouch-PC). CMX CORP. 4538 I SYSTEMS 4526 New: 3100A mid-range video Color correctors; 30 model- CIRCUITRESEARCH editor; hard disk drive for mg, animation; weather LABS 1009 3600 editor. VTReditor/ radar/graphics. New: Audio processors; mies, controllers; multisource I I AVCOM PSA-370 PORTABLE SPECTRUM ANALYZER • • • AVCOM INTRODUCES THE NEW PSA-370 PORTABLE SPECTRUM ANALYZER WITH DIGITAL • FREQUENCY REAOOUT.AVCOM'S NEW PSA-370 Porta ble Spectrum Analyzer has a 4 digit front panel frequency readout and is controlled by a rotary frequency adjustment control. Frequency ranges that the PSA-370 cover are Oto 500 MHz, 500 to 1000 MHz, 950 to 1450 MHz, 1250 to 1750 MHz and 3.7 to4.2 GHz. The PSA-370 Portable Spectrum Analyzer is lightweight. portable, battery operated, ideal for field test situations. A built-in DC block with a +18 VOC powers LNAsand BOCs with the flip of a switch. All other performance characteristics and features are the same as the PSA-35A which has become an industry standard for satellite communications work. $2475 . on the products '"'""'" ...··-· ·: "t \ . advertised in this . . • . 1 issue, use HJIE handy Reader AVCOM INTRODUCES A FULLY AGILE SINGLE CHANNEL PER CARRIER DEMODULATOR, THE SCPC-3000E, FOR VERSATILE AND ECONOMICAL RECEPTION OF SC?C SIGNALS. The SCPC-3000E Demodulator features a high-performance synthesized 50-90 MHz tuning modute for • Service Card. maximum system versatility. Frequencies are tunable in 800 steps of 50 KHz each. Standard expansions are 3:1 and 2:1, other expander formats are available. Deemphasis is switchable between O. 25, 50. and 75 micro-seconds. Selectable low-pass 15, 7.5, and 5 KHz audio filters are standard. .• AVCOM can customize the SCPC-3000E Agile SCPC Demooutator to suit spec.ñc receiver needs, contact AVCOM with your requirements. $1378 Reader Service ... another 500 SOUTHLAKE BOULEVARD, RICHMOND, VA 23236 .. H:\I E Improvement. AVCOM® Tel. (804) 794-2500 FAX (804) 794-8284 Teff!x 701-545 Circle 136 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTI NG I COLUMBINE I COMSAT WORLD CONVERGENCE 1773 SYSTEMS 4277 1 SYSTEMS DIV. 4383 New: Slo Motion edit control• New: Business automation; New: HDlV production equip. ler. VTReditor/controllers. newsroomcomputers. , Video monitors; & test equip. I COOL-LIGHT co. 5761 COMARK 1 COMTECH ANTENNA Lighting equip. COMMUNICATIONS, CORP. 2024-2026 DIV. Antennas, towers; satellite ¡ CORPORATE NAB THOMSON-CSF 5141 earth stations. COMMUNICATIONS LAS VEGAS New;1Vtransmitters. Trans- I CONSULTANTS 3080 mitter, powertubes. . COMTEK 5768 Color correctors. 1 9 8 9 See ad on p. 114 I New: M-182, M-180 I handlheld mic receiver. Mies, CORTANA CORP. 7908 COMLUX 3085-3086 I accessories; intercoms; re• Antennas, towers. New: Multichannel, all-digital I mote monitoring systems. telecine system. COUNTRYMAN COMWAVE 5262 ASSOCIATES 1463 COMMODORE 1Vtransmitters; antennas, Mies, accessories. BUSINESS towers; MDS, SMAlV MACHINES 7033 1 systems. CROSSPOINT LATCH CORP. 3977 '----~~~~~~~~~ 1 COMMUNICATIONS CONCEPT New: 8200X TBC;6129 BHK I GRAPHICS 1600 PRODUCTIONS 1453· I & 6119 YCproduction Promotional items. 1455 I switchers. New: Studio automation I COMPREHENSIVE I equip. (CAPSI, CAPSII). I CROWN VIDEO SUPPLY 5548 I Music/sound efx libraries. INTERNATIONAL 1557 New: Lenses; NTSC Mies, accessories; audio test encoders/decoders; S-VHS CONIFER 3858 equip. color processor; color corree- I ITFSequip. tors; Edit Master multisource , CUBICOMP 703 video editor; production I CONNECTRONICS PictureMaker/60 3D model• switchers; S-VHSDA;time I CORP. 1571 ing & animation system; code equip.; intercoms. Connectors,jackfields. PictureMaker/50 midrange Equipment distributor. 2D & 3D graphics system; CONRAC DISPLAY PictureMaker/15 full-color COMPROMPTER 5774 PRODS. 1741 paint system; Vertigo Series New: Newsroomcomputers. New: Componentvideo 2000 graphics and anima• Teleprompters. encoders/decoders.Video tion workstation. monitors. COMPUTER CONCEPTS CURRENT CORP. 1061 CONTEL A.S.C. 5777 TECHNOLOGY 7621, Business automation. 7623 CONTINENTAL New: Digital protection for COMPUTER ELECTRONICS/ I lighting equip; power con• PROMPTING VARIAN 1125 ditioning for 1Vtransmitters; I CORP. 3612 New: Radiotransmitters. An- I powersupplies, batteries. Teleprompters; closed cap• tennas, towers; remote moni- I tioning systems. taring systems; transmitter I CYCLE SAT 3184 remote control; AM stereo Spot delivery by satellite. COMPUTER PROMPTING equip.; SCAequip.; transmit• See ad on p. 65 SVCES. 3378 ter, powertubes. I PETER W. DAHL 1663 : COMREX CORP. 1521 CONTROL CONCEPTS Powersupplies, batteries. New:Telco interface equip. CORP. 3902 Field portable mixers. Powersurge & transient H. L. DALIS 5063 I See ad on p. 87 protectors. 80 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com DALSAT SATELLITE DIELECTRIC COMMUNI- Products that get you on the COMM. 7417 CATIONS 1025 air quickly and cost-effectively New: ENG/EFPvehicles; SNG Other RF,general. with superior coverage. systems; satellite earth stations. DIGITAL ARTS 7633 Character generators; 2D BILL DANIELS CO. 5277 graphics systems; 3D model- ing, animation. DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT 5586 DIGITAL AUDIO &VIDEO 4983 DATACOUNT 2004 Business automation. DIGITAL AUDIO RESEARCH 7921 DATATEK CORP. 3951 Digital audio workstations. Routing switchers, DAs; au• dio routing switchers. DIGITAL CREATIONS 7133 DATAWORLD 1374 Studio automation equip; New: Graphics/special efx fa• video editor/audio console cility; technical/engineering serial interfaces. consultant. DIGITAL EQUIP. dbx 2420 CORP. 7811 Audio processors; audio noise reduction; audio moni• DIGITAL FIX 7211 toring equip.: compact disc New: Electronic still stores; equip., MTS equip. character generators; 2D graphics systems; digital DELCOM USA 4386 video effects (DF/X200). DELTA DIGITAL SERVICES ELECTRONICS 1159 CORP./DSC 4538 New: Active whip antenna for New: Digital disk recorders. in-field measurements; ste• Digital video effects. Whatever your transmission line needs may be - AM, FM, reo noise generator; C-QUAM UHF or VHF - Andrew has a product engineered for you. stereo exciter; high-power DOLBY Choose from a large selection of rigid line and waveguide, ammeters and sampling to• LABORATORIES 1457 as well as HELIAX® coaxial cable, the industry standard for roids. RFtest equip.: high• New: Noise reduction excellence. HELIAX cable is made exclusively by Andrew. power pulse reflectometer. systems. And now, see us at NAB about our newest air dielectric See ad on p. 91 Seeadonp 76 cable, 2-%" HELIAX coaxial cable. With its medium power applications, it's the ideal choice for Class B FM stations. DENON AMERICA 7127 DORROUGH Turntables; cassette decks; I ELECTRONICS 1035- compact disk equip. 1037 In addition to broadcast transmission Jine, . New: Model 1200 stereo sig• Andrew also offers a large selection· cf broadcast antennas and satellíte communicatfon systems. DESISTI LIGHTING/ nal test set. Audio proces• DESMAR CORP. 3583 sors; on-air consoles, mix• Lighting equip. ers; audio level meters. .__,, ANCRE\N DeWOLF MUSIC PHILLIP DRAKE LIBRARY 1736 ELECTRONICS 7005 Andrew Corporation Music/sound efx libraries. Audio monitor amps; field Customer Support Center portable mixers; on-air con• 10500 West 153rd Street DI-TECH 3716 soles, mixers; post-produc• Orland Park, IL 60462 New: Routing switchers, DAs; tion consoles; intercoms. 1-800-255-1479 audio routing switchers. Circle 138 on Reader Service Card Page 107 BME April 1989 81 www.americanradiohistory.com words cannot describe the best in the business LEDDII ® tubes for all cameras USA: EEVInc, 4 Westchester Plaza,Elmsford, NY 10523 Telephone: (914)592 6050 Telex: 6818096 Fax: (914)682 8922 EEV CANADA: EEVCanada Ltd, 67 Wes"more Drive, Rexdale, Ontario M9V 3Y6 Telephone: (416)745 9494 Telex: 06 989363 Fax: (416)745 0618 UK: EEV,Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2QU, England Telephone: (0245) 493493 Telex: 99103 Fax: (0245) 492492 Subsidiary of the General Electric Company ple of England GtfJC ® Leddicon is the Registered Trodemark See us at NAB-Booth #4262 of EEV Lead Oxide Comero Tubes. Circle 139 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING DYNAMIC Application-based products TECHNOLOGY 4682 that get you on the air quickly Switching automation; video and cost-effectively. routing switchers, DAs; light• ing equip.; satellite earth stations. DYNATECH NAB NEWSTAR 4526 LAS VEGAS New: Business automation. Election reporting systems; 1 9 8 9 teleprornpters: studio auto• mation equip.; newsroom computers. EASTMAN KODAK 4551 Videotape. ECHOLAB 1770-1776 New: Digital video effects. Production switchers. ECONCOBROADCAST SERVICE 1675 Transmitter, power tubes. DSI COMMUNI- CATIONS 1765 EDITRON USA 7632, Remote monitoring status 7634 system; studio design & VTReditor/controllers; construction; technical/ multisource video editors; engineering consultant. ATRsynchronizers. DUBNER COMPUTER EEG SYSTEMS 4130 ENTERPRISES 3438- Andrew offers a complete line of satellite communication New: GF-50 Graphics Factory 3439 systems, including the 4.5 metre and 7.:3 metre "cherry 3D modeling & animation New: VBI data transmission, picker" TYRO antenna systems that can pick and choose system; 30K character gen• closed captioning, data cast• programming from any domestic satellite. erator; new software for ing. Teletext equip.; news• And now, Andrew offers its newest "cherry picker," the 7.3 weather package; MCA-14 1V room computers. metre R{T antenna system with 6-port feed system. It's a master control automation two-in-one antenna because it is dual banded as well as system. Turbo Paint 2D EEV 4262 transmit (at Ku band) and receive. Andrew also offers its graphics systems, 20-KEL New: Transmitter, power brand new Tri-fold 4.5 and 4.6 metre transportable antenna election reporting system. tubes. Camera pickup tubes. systems. ~ See ad on p. 82 DUGGAN MFG. 5328 In addition to satellite communication systems, EG&G 3922 Andrew also offers a large eetection of broadcast DX I Tower lighting. antennas and broadcast transmission lines. COMMUNICATIONS2343 New: Satellite earth stations. ELCOM BAUER 1153 Audio processors; radio __,,, ANCRE\N DYNAIR transmitters. ELECTRONICS 1707 Andrew Corporatio1n ELECTROIMPULSE Dynasty, Dynamite, Series Customer Support Center 1200 video routing switch• LAB 1103 10500 West 153rd Street ers; Dynasty, Dynamite audio Other RF,general. Orland Park, IL 60462 routing switchers; Series 1-800-255-1479 1200 fiberoptic systems. Circle 140 on Reader Service Card Page 107 BME April 1989 83 www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTI NG ENERGY-ONIX BROADCAST Products that get you on the EQUIP. 1730-1732 air quickly and cost-effectively New: Radio transmitters. with superior coverage ... E-N·G MOBILE SYSTEMS Andrew TRASAR~ 4981 and GUIDELINER@ high power transmitting NAB ENTERPRISE antennasfor UHF LAS VEGAS ELECTRONICS 3870- and high band VHF 3872 applications. Wide selection of patterns 1 9 8 9 New: Doppler weather radar for optimum viewer system. coverage. ESD 5461-5462 New: Advanced Weather Andrew "G" series Graphix, TrueView Dimen• standby and emergency antennasfor UHF handle sional lmager, EasyData 60 kW and help ensure 9600 Service. efficient maintenance and minimal revenue ESE 3907-3908 loss. Available in less than 36 hours for New: Character generators. emergency situations. Routing switchers, DAs;time code equip.: clocks, timers; teleo interface equip. Andrew "L" series ELECTRO-VOICE 4174 antennasfor low and New: Audio test equip. Field EVENTIDE 2535 intermediate power UHFapplications of portable mixers; mies, acces• New: Digital audio 2-20 kW are light and sories; studio monitors. workstations. Video and au• modularized for fast, dio broadcast delay; audio easy installation. ELECTROHOME 5116 I processors. Video monitors. EVERTZ Andrew "HMO" series ELECTRONICS MICROSYSTEMS 5379- antennasfor ITFSand MMDSare offered in RESEARCH 1017 5380 many pattern and gain Antennas, towers; diplexers, Character generators; VTR combinations for multiplexers. editor/controllers; tape syn• 2.5-2.7GHz applications. chronizers; time code equip.: Both horizontal and vertical polarizations EMCEE BROADCAST clocks, timers; ATR available for better PRODUCTS 4251 synchronizers. coverage. TVtransmitters; techn ical/engi neering EXCALIBUR Andrew TRASAR, GUIDELINER, G series and HMD series consultant. INDUSTRIES 3165 antennas are radome enclosed and pressurizable for long Transportation cases. life, lower windloading and trouble-free performance. EMCOR/CRENLO 1573 Studio furniture; transporta• EXPRESS In addition to broadcast antennas, Andrew also tion cases. TOWER CO. 7903 offeirs a large selection of satellite comm'Jnication Antennas, towers. antennas and broadcast transmission lines. EMERGENCYALERT RECEIVER 2248 FAIRLIGHT SCAequip.: EBSequip. INSTRUMENTS 7717 __,,,,,ANCRE\N New: Digital video effects; digital audio workstations. Andrew Corporation Customer Support Center FAROUDJA LABS 5733- 10500 West 153rd Street 5736 Orland Park, IL 60462 New: HDTVproduction 1-800-255-1479 Circle 142 on Reader Service Card Page l07 EME April 1989 85 www.americanradiohistory.com ..JR LISTING equip.; NTSC encoders/ FOCAL PRESS 7616 GARNER ALAN GORDON decoders; other processing. Book publisher. INDUSTRIES 5112-5113 ENTERPRISES 3855 See ad on p. 16 Tape erasers, degaussers. Lighting equip.; camera sup• FOR-A CORP. OF port equip.; mies, FARRTRONICS 5448- AMERICA 5151 GE AMERICAN accessories. 5449 New: TBCs; frame syn• COMMUNICATIONS3419 Intercoms; telco interface chronizers; character genera• Program distributor; digital GORMAN REDLICH equip.; connectors, tors; digital video effects; audio transmission service; MFG. 1271 jackfields. post-production consoles. transponder leasing service. EBS systems. See ad on p. 136 NTSC encoders/decoders; color correctors; VTR editor/ GEFEN SYSTEMS 2351 I GOTHAM AUDIO 3538 FELDMAR WATCH 3187 controllers; multisource New: Compact disc changer; New: Mies, accessories. Au• Clocks, timers. video editors; routing switch• sound efx/music software & dio processors; studio moni• ers, DAs; time code equip.; hardware. tors; digital ATRs; digital au• FERN O clocks, timers. dio workstations; cassette WASHINGTON 7726 GENERAL decks; compact disc equip.; Audio and video equip. carts. FORT WORTH ELECTRIC 3905 turntables; special efx. TOWER 3840 Lighting equip. FGV PANTHER CORP. OF Antennas, towers. G&M POWER AMERICA 3838 GENERAL ELECTRIC/ PRODUCTS 5083 New: Helios HM ls. Camera FORTEL 5526 COM BAND 2243 support equip. TBCs; color correctors. Addressable systems for GRAHAM·PATIEN MMDS/ITFS; multichannel SYSTEMS 5728-5731 FIBERBILT CASES 5338 FOSTEX CORP. OF block downconverters. Video keying systems; post• New: Molded shipping cases. AMERICA 5280 See ad on p. 135 production consoles; 4020 event controller; char• subcarrier for digital audio FIDELIPAC 1117 acter generators; tape syn• GENERIC DESIGN 5352 transmission. Cart decks; audio tape, carts; chronizers; time code equip.; VTR heads, electronics; VTR tape storage systems. FAME software; mies, acces• editor/controllers; time code THE GRASS VALLEY See ad on p. 3 sories; studio monitors; stu• equip. GROUP 4130 dio ATRs; digital ATRs; ATR New: Production switchers. FIELD synchronizers. GENTNER HDTV production equip.; ENGINEERING 3084 ELECTRONICS character generators; 2D New: In-camera SMPTE safe FREZZOLINI CORP. 2127 . graphics systems; digital action/safe title generator. ELECTRONICS 3916-17 New: Audio processors (Au• video effects; VTR editor/ New: SC2, MB10/90 battery dio Prism, Phoenix); trans• controllers; multisource FILM HOUSE 1659 chargers; FBP-14/13 nicad mitter remote control. Field video editors; random ac• TV marketing campaigns for battery pack; Frezzi-Portable portable mixers; telco inter• cess editors; MC switchers; radio stations. power case; Mini-Fill pro face equip.; audio routing switching automation; lighting kit. Lighting equip.; switchers. routing switchers, DAs; FIRSTCOM BROADCAST power supplies, batteries. weather radar/graphics; elec• SERVICES 1008 GENTNER RF PRODS. tion reporting systems; sync Music/sound efx libraries. FUJI PHOTO FILM 3551 DIV. 2127 & pulse code generators/ Videotape. Transmitter remote control. processors; post-production FLASH consoles; fiberoptic systems. TECHNOLOGY 1553 FUJINON 3555 GEOCAM 7003 Tower lighting. New: HDTV production equip. Camera support equip. GRAY ENGINEERING Lenses. LABS 3947,4046 FLORICAL See ad on p. 52 GML 7333 Time code equip. SYSTEMS 5686-5687 New; Audio compressor/ New: Cart automation/MERPS FUTURE limiter; studio automation THE GREAT AMERICAN (ShowTimer Time Shifterl I); PRODUCTIONS 5784- equip. Mies, accessories; MARKET 3373 switching automation 5785 electronic audio editors; New: Access lighting control (MACS). New: Camera control unit. reverb, special efx. console. 86 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com LYNN GREENBERG transmitter remote control. HARRIS CORP., VIDEO ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIV. 1305 TELEPROMPTING 7543 HARRIS CORP., TBCs; frame synchronizers; New: PC-based BROADCAST DIV. 1305 Vws video workstation/elec• teleprompters. New: Electronic still stores; tronic still store; digital ef• character generators; 20 fects devices. JAMES GRUNDER & graphics systems; 30 model• ASSOC. 41'77 ing, animation; video graph• HARRISON New: CELP164 eight-bit, ics workstation; DATrecorder; SYSTEMS 1116 NAB 4:2:2 digital efx/framestore/ radio transmitters; TV trans• New: On-air consoles, mix• LAS VEGAS TBC; P165 eight-bit bidirec• mitters; antennas, towers. ers; post-production con• tional standards converter. TBCs; frame synchronizers; soles; studio automation 1 9 8 9 CELdigital video effects on-au consoles, mixers; equip. systems. transmitter remote control. H&E MICRO-TRAK 3431 I L------41""'&------' GTE SPACENET 909 HARRIS CORP., BROAD- New: SNG systems; SNG CASI MllCROWAVE 1305 HEDCO (SUBSIDIARY OF I voice communication ENG& intercity microwave. LEITCHVIDEO) 3855 service. New: Routing switchers, DAs; HARRIS CORP., BUSI• audio routing switchers. Sync HALLIKAINEN & NESS COMMUNICA- and pulse code generators/ FRIENDS 1111 TIONS :DIV. 1305 processors. On-air consoles, mixers; re• mote monitoring systems; .Portable Partnership When you're on the scene, you're on the air-with a cellular phone and a Comrex. Our PLXmicro converts telephone quality to program quality around town or around the world. The PLXmicroisthe tiniest extender we've ever built. Just about pocket size, it stows-and goes-almost anywhere. Yetdespite its size, it'spacked with features::the Comrex frequency extender isbuilt in, along with interface for cellular telephone or standard dial line. There are microphone and tape inputs and automatic send level control. A monitor decoder, hybrid circuitry and headphone output allow full duplex operation. Callor write for a demo tape of the difference that a Comrex can make. Comrex Corporation, 65 Nonset Path, Acton, MA01720 508-263-1800 1-800-237-1776 Comrex UK,Ltd., 171-175 Uxbridge Road, London Wl39AA 01-579-2743 Circle 143 on ReaderService Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com The faster things change, the faster At Camera Mart, we cover video changes In over 50 years, we've sold and rented faster than you change lanes. more film and video equipment than any• Our video pros are close to the manufac• one. turers, often evaluating new ideas and Today,we have millions of dollars inves• testing new products before they're intro• ted in the worlds best video equipment. duced. For production, post-production, duplica• So, when you ask us, "What's new?" you tion, digital effects and graphics-plus, know we know what we're talking about. lighting for any size job. See us at NAB Booth #5551 Branch Offices: Burbank, Calif. 91506 Las Vegas, Nv. 89121 Sacramento, Ca. 95841 Liverpool, New York 13088 Miami, Florida 3J172 Evac.sville,In. ~7715 (818) 843-6644 (702) 435-9234 (916) 487-4545 (315) 457-3703 (3Q5)227-2.975 (ff12) 476-6327 FAX (818) 843-2478 FAX:(702) 451-3229 FAX:(916) 487-2940 FAX:(315) 457-3795 FAX:(305) 227-0531 www.americanradiohistory.com we keep up. In all, we have over 110,000 square feet of equipment on both coasts and an in• ternational division to meet the needs of customers anywhere on earth. In addition, we design, build and install complete video systems. And it all comes with the best service, brightest experts and friendliest rates you'll find anywhere. If you want to hear about the latest in The Camera Mart. inc. video, call us. And see how fast we move. SALES • SERVICE • RENTAL 456 West 55th Street, New York 10019 (212) 757-6977 FAX: (212) 582-2498 Circle 144 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com r EXHIBITOR LISTING KARL HEITZ, INC. 3477- IGM COMMUNI• INTEGRATED MEDIA JBL 3478 CATIONS 1141 SYSTEMS 7011 PROFESSIONAL 3577 Camera support equip.; vid• Studio ATRs; studio automa- Dyaxis digital audio Studio monitors. eotape; mies, accessories. tion equip. workstations. JEFFERSON-PILOT DATA HIPOTRONICS, POWER IKEGAMI ELECTRONICS INTEGRATED SERVICES 1241 PRODUCTS DIV. 3379 (USA) 5305 TECHNOLOGIES 7334 Business automation; news• Automatic voltage regulators. Studio cameras; ENG/EFP Audio & video DAs; pulse & room computers. cameras; camcorders; HDlV subcarrier amps; HITACHI DENSHI production equip.; NTSC character/graphics systems. JENSEN TOOLS 1667 AMERICA 4519 encoders/decoders; Power supplies, batteries; Studio cameras; ENG/EFP telecines; video monitors; INTELLIGENT wire, cable; connectors, cameras; video test equip.; video projectors; ENG LIGHT 7105 jackfields; tools; transporta• HDlV production equip. microwave. New: 3D modeling, tion cases. See ad on p. 74-75 animation. HM ELECTRONICS 3066 JOHNSON New: Intercoms; tel co I ILC TECHNOLOGY 3773 I INTELVIDEO 44 78 I ELECTRONICS 1527 interface equip. Mies, Lighting equip. New:NTSC SCA equip. accessories. encoders/decoders; ''Video IMAGE VIDEO 5574 Flasher." JVC PROFESSIONAL H.M.I. LIGHTING 7536 Video routing switchers, DAs; PRODUCTS 4168 digital production systems; INTERACTIVE MOTION New: CCD camera; S-VHS HOFFEND& audio routing switchers. CONTROL 5477 VTRs. Studio cameras; frame SONS 3365-3366 See ad on p. 138 Remote motion control synchronizers; video moni• Lighting equip.; camera sup• systems. tors; 2D graphics systems; port equip. INDUSTRIAL VTR editor/controllers. ACOUSTICS 7641· 7643 INTERGROUP VIDEO HOLADAY IND. 2028 Studio design & SYSTEMS 3526 KAHN COMMUNI- RFtest equip. construction. New: Production switchers; CATIONS 1005 routing switchers, DAs. New: AM stereo receiver; au• HOME SHOPPING INFORMATION DISPLAY dio processors; telco inter• NETWORK 7805 SYSTEMS/SAIC 7135 INTERNATIONAL face equip.; AM stereo HDlV projectors; equip. dis• MUSIC/AKAi equip. HOODMAN CORP. A125 tributor; studio design & PROFESSIONAL 7440 New: Monitor sun shades. construction; technical/ New: Akai Digital Samplers. KALAMUSIC 2543 engineering consultant. Post-production consoles; Syndicated radio HOTRONIC 3771 studio monitors; studio ATRs; programming. TBCs; frame synchronizers. INNOVATIVE digital ATRs; cassette decks. AUTOMATION 1603 KANGAROO VIDEO HOWE New: Studio automation ISi 3862 PRODUCTS 3741-3742 TECHNOLOGIES 1465 equip. (Ditrol Jr.). Cart decks; Carrying cases. On-air consoles, mixers; audio tape, carts; equip. I.Y.E. 3938 Phase Chaser audio TBC; stu- distributor. New: Camera support equip. KAVOURAS 5719 dio furniture. Weather radar/graphics. INNOVISION ITELCO S.P.A. 3459 HUGHEY& OPTICS 2020 Radio transmitters; 1V trans• KAY INDUSTRIES 1647 PHILLIPS 4276 mitters; microwave for ENG. Power supplies & batteries; Remote monitoring systems. I INOVONICS 1473 power converters. New: FM/FMX stereo genera• ITS CORP. 5180 HUNGERFORD, ALDRIN, tor, digital stereo generator. New: MDS, SMAlV systems. K&H PRODUCTS/PORTA NICHOLS 1056 Audio processors. 1V transmitters. BRACE 5377 Camera cases. IDB COMMUNICATIONS INTEGRATED JAM PRO GROUP A140 ARTS 7821 ANTENNAS 1217 KINGS ELECTRONICS Antennas, towers; satellite Antennas, towers; wire & co. 5123-5124 earth stations. cable. New: Digital video effects. 90 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com KINTEK 1057 LAKE SYSTEMS LECTROSONICS 5370 Audio processors; audio CORP. 819 monitoring equip.; audio test [_aKart MERPS system; video I LEE COLORTRAN 3533 equip. & audio systems designer. Lighting equip. KINTRONIC LABS 710 LANDY LEITCH VIDEO OF AM directional antenna ASSOCIATES 5522 I AMERICA 3568 feeder systems. Studio furniture; equip. dis• New: Video test equip.: elec• tributor; studio design & con• tronic still stores. Frame syn• NAB KLIEGL BROS. 3516 struction; mobile vehicle chronizers; routing switchers, 1 LAS VEGAS Lighting equip. construction; technical/ DAs; sync & pulse code engineering consultant. gen/proc; clocks, timers. 1 9 8 9 KLINE TOWERS 5446 I See ad on p. 57 Towers. LDL COMMUNICATIONS/ LARCAN 3562 LEMO USA 5107 KNOX VIDEO 3849 New: TV transmitters; anten• Connectors, jackfields. New: Character generators; nas, towers. 20 graphics systems. LENCO LEADER ELECTRONICS 3716 I LAIRD TELEMEDIA 4874 INSTRUMENTS 5371 TBCs; video processors; Color correctors; telecines; Video test equip.; sync & 1 video test equip.; video rout• character generators; routing pulse generators; audio test ing switchers, DAs (Starflex); switchers, DAs. equip.; AM stereo equip. reverb, special efx; time compression systems. Heart Monitor. "'" No matter how you look at it, the heartbeat of your TV pulse echoes. This makes the PRH-1 ideally suited for crowded station depends on a healthy transmission line. If a problem antenna farms and community antennas, unlike traditional develops, how would you ever know until it's too late? time domain reflectometers. Its ability to measure AM and Now there's a way to check your line thoroughly and FM lines as well make the PRH-1 a sound investment. accurately before a simple problem becomes a major malfunc• What you don't know about your transmission line can tion. It's the PRH-1 High Power Pulse Reflectometer from hurt you. Considering the consequences you'll suffer being Delta Electronics. knocked off the air, shouldn't you consider buying the PRH-1 The rugged PRH-1 puts out a low current, 5,000 volt as your top priority? variable pulse that overcomes the obstacles of long transmis• To see actual PRH-1 test results, call or write today. Delta sion lines, with no risk of damage. What you end up with is a Electronics, Inc., 5730 General Washington Drive, P.O. Box series of echoes from the pulse displayed on your oscilloscope 11268, Alexandria, screen which represent your transmission line. The shape of VA 22312. Telephone: The AboveStandard the echoes determines the nature of any problem. (703) 354-3350, Industry Standard~ The PRH-1 operates like a champ in high RF fields, FAX: (703) 354-0216, DELTA ELECTRONICS L -= withstanding interference without any visible degradation of Telex: 90-1963. ® Circle 145 on Reader Service Card Page 107 1989 Delta Electronics. Inc. BME April 1989 91 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING LEONETII CO. A157 3M BROADCASTING& MATCO 5382-5384 I MICRODYNE 5119 New: Lighting equip. RELATED Cart automation/MERPS;VTR Antennas, towers; Quick Link PRODUCTS 3405 editor/controllers; routing SNGsystems; satellite earth LEXICON 2327 Charactergenerators; routing switchers, DAs. stations. Audio processors; digital au• switchers, DAs. dio workstations; reverb, MATIHEWS STUDIO MICRON AUDIO special efx. 3M/INTERNATIONAL EQUIP. 4183 .PRODUCTS/ TAPETRONICS 3405 Camerasupport equip. DEDOTEC 5772 LIGHTING Cart decks; audio tape, carts; New: Lighting equip. METHODS 4483 I audio routing switchers. MAZE BROADCAST7420 I (Dedolight, Dedocool); wire- See ad on p. 44 Usedequip. distributor. less mies. LIGHTING ELIMINATORS &CONS. 3919 3M MAGNETICMEDIA MCCURDYRADIO MICROSONICS 5362 DIV. 3405 INDUSTRIES 1755 Combfilters. LIPSNER·SMITH Audio and videotape. New: Digital intercom sys• co. 1706 See ad on p. 84 tem. On-airconsoles, mixers; MICROTIME 4.126 New: Ultrasonic film cleaning audio test equip.; studio New:TBCs;3D modeling, equip. M/A-COM 3933 automation equip. animation; digital video ef• Microwavefor ENG. See ad on p. 60 fects; multisource video LISTECVIDEO editors. CORP. 3523 MAGNI SYSTEMS 3173 MCL A115 New: Liveediting computer New:Component/composite See ad on p. 115 MICROWAVE prompter. signal generators; pro• RADIO 1731 grammable signal generator, MCMARTIN Antennas, towers (ProStar); LOGITEK 1635 multistandard waveform INDUSTRIES 2227 microwavefor ENG. On-airconsoles, mixers; monitors and vector scopes, Audio processors; on-air con• post-production consoles; programmable HDTVgenera• soles, mixers; audio monitor• MIDWEST audio routing switchers, DAs. tor. NTSCencoders/ ing equip.; radio transmit• COMMUNICATIONS decoders; sync and ters; exciters. CORP. 4568, A110 LOWEL-LIGHT pulse code generators/ New: Framesynchronizers; MFG. 3768-3868 processors. MEDIA standards converters; color Lighting equip. COMPUTING 5386 correctors; 2D graphics sys• MAGNUM Weather radar/graphics; tems; routing switchers, DAs; LPB 1541 TOWERS 1501-1502 election reporting systems. TVtransmitters; ENG/EFPve• New: Citation II audio con• Antennas, towers. hicles; SNGsystems. TBCs; soles; turntable preamps. MEDIA NTSCencoders/decoders; MAIL AMERICA/ DEVELOPMENT 7140 video test equip.; production LTMCORP.OF RADIOXPRESS 7131 switchers. AMERICA 5358 MEDIA TOUCH See ad on p. 6, 10. 12 Mies, accessories. MANHATIAN PRODUC- SYSTEMS 2105 TION MUSIC 3064 New: Switching automation. MILLER FLUID HEADS LUCASEYMFG. 5062 New: Productionmusic on Compact disc equip.; studio (USA) 5455 compact disc. automation equip.; audio Camerasupport equip. LUXOR 2449 routing switchers. NV tables, stands, cabinets. I MARCONI COMMUNICA· MINOLTA 4682 TION SYSTEMS 4338 I MERET 4473 L-WATHENA 5205 Radiotransmitters. MIRALITE COMMUNI· Telecines. MERLIN SNELL & CATIONS 7530 MARTI WILCOX 5530 New: Satellite earth stations; LYON LAMB V.A.S. 7111 ELECTRONICS 1204 I ME9900, ME8800 stan- equip. distributor. 3D modeling, animation sys- Audio processors; mies, ac- dards converters; ME2001 tems and accessories. cessories; audio monitoring; HDTVdownconverter. MITCHELL remote pickup, RENG;STLs, CAMERA A165 TSLs;remote control sys• MICRO COMMUNI· Camerasupport equip. tems; SCAequip. CATIONS 1547 New:Transmitter remote control. 92 EME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com , MITSUBISHI ELEC. MOLE• MOTOROLA AM SALES AMERICA 7101 RICHARDSON 3974 I STEREO/C & E 1068 On-air consoles, mixers Lighting equip. STLs, TSLs; AM stereo equip. (Westar); post-production consoles; studio ATRs (X Se• KEITH MONKS MUSCO MOBILE ries); digital ATRs; cart AUDIO 2151 LIGHTING A135 decks. Record cleaning machines; Lighting equip. studio monitors. MOBILE-CAM MZB/GRAY 3432 NAB PRODUCTS A165 MONTAGE GROUP 5283 ENG/EFPvehicles; mobile ve• LAS VEGAS New: Frame synchronizers; Random access video hicle construction. mobile vehicle construction. editors. 1 9 8 9 Camera support equip. N.A.R.T.E. 4486 MORTON HI TEK 7800 I MODULATION Studio furniture. NADY SYSTEMS 3740 SCIENCES 5765 New; Two-way portable ra- Audio processors; MTS MOSELEY I dios; mies, accessories; ra- equip.; AM stereo equip.; ASSOCIATES 1317 dio transmitters. SCA equip. Audio routing switchers, DAs; STLs, TSLs; remote control NAGRA MAGNETIC MOD ULITE/ systems; SCA equip. RECORDERS 4005 BARDWELL 3880 Field ATRs. Lighting equip. NAKAMICHI 2149 I America's Premier ELLIS & WATTS Division of Dynamics Corporation of America Custom 4400 Glen Willow Lake Lane, Batavia, Ohio 45103 Television Phone: (513) 752-9000 •Fax: (513) 943-3395 Production Trailers We build our customers a lot more than just a trailer; we provide a custom engineered ~---- system to solve your problems. -;--- An Ellis & Watts product I includes some built-in features ! • I which are tough to find in --- r- - ~~¡ today's marketplace: quality, reliability, integrity, nationwide service and the absolute best value available. --=I! Please call us with your requirements for new trailers and vans or overhauls/ upgrades on your existing mobile units. Delmar Ellis Factory Sales Manager (513) 752-9000 Stan Buczek National Sales Representative (201) 838-5317 Circle 146 on Reader Service Card Page 107 BME April 1989 93 www.americanradiohistory.com &witchcraft® SPEAKS ••• ..Easeo1Wiring The APP Series audio patch panel two locations.The unit can also accom• Test and compare. Switchcraft audio speaks broadcast engineers' language modate 22 or 24 gauge wire, ei1her patch panels are a breeze to operate with featurestlhatmake it easyto install, solid or stsanded.. and deliver the convenience and trans• wire,and maintain.Noother patchpanel mission quality. the industry depends offers the level of flexibility and silt'1>1ic• Four Conífiguratlions on. Specify Swi.t~hcraft ... we s,peak ity availablein Switchcraft'sAPPSeriies. Offer 'Versatility. audio-ease! Four convenient unit configuratiions Insulation Displacement are offered. Engineers can specifJ·the Connectors (IDC's) Make complete asse111bly,front and back Termination Easy. panel remote without frame, and e1ither Color-coded IDC's insure accurate·ter• rear or front panelonly,makingthe.APP mination identification. One simple tool Series ideal for any installation. Switchcraft eliminates the need for wire stripping and soldering and makes connections Identification Features A Raylhean Company quick and easy. Speed Maintenance. Front panel identification strips, color• 5555 N. Elston Ave. A Varie·tyOf Wirin.gOptions Expand coded IDC's,internal and external wire ·Chicago, 'L 60630 Your Applications Possibilities. guides, and a rearecable support bar (312) 792-2700 The API?Series gives engineers the all provide convenient wiring organiza• ability to terminate two wires at one tion and iidentificatiion. Circle 147 on Reader Service Card- Page 107 IDC,so a signal can be transmitted] m For instant response to your questions er l'or more informal:ion, FAX us at (312) 792-2·129, or call OU" Audio Department at (312) 792-2700. www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING NALPAK VIDEO 3368 I NORTRONICS 1537 ORION RESEARCH 3068 New: Camera support equip.; Heads, accessories. New: SoundStar post-pro au- ATA rack-pod transportation dio console. On-air consoles, case. Newsroom computers. NOVA SYSTEMS 5472 mixers. TBCs; frame synchronizers. NARDA See ad on p. 50 OSRAMCORP. 1421, I MICROWAVE 2349 7429 Video test equip.; audio test NPR SATELLITE New: Lighting equip. I equip.; ENG microwave. SVCES. 7622 NAB Satellite dist. svces. OTARI CORP. 1353 I LAS VEGAS NAUTEL 1065 I 3/4-, 1/2-inch VTRs; time Radio transmitters. NURAD 5538 code equip.; studio ATRs; 1 9 8 9 New: ENG microwave. STLs, J field ATRs; digital ATRs; NEC AMERICA, TSLs; intercity microwave. heads, accessories; cart BROADCAST EQUIP. decks; ATR synchronizers. DIV. 3444 NYTONE New: ENG/EFPcameras; digi• ELECTRONIC 5479 PACIFIC RADIO ELEC- tal disk recorders; TV trans• Telecines. [ TRONICS 7330· 7332 mitters. Digital video effects. New: Wire, cable; connec- O'CONNOR tors, jackfields. Tape eras- L.E. NELSON I ENGINEERING ers, degaussers; mies, ac- SALES/THORN-EMI 5365 LABS 4574 I cessories; tools; equip. Lighting equip. Camera support equip. I distributor. NEOTEK 7430, 7432 I ODETICS/BROADCAST I PACIFIC RECORDERS & I New: Esprit post-production SALES 711 . ENGINEERING 1325 I console. Cart automation/MERPS. I On-air consoles, mixers I I See ad on p. 129 (BMX, AMX, ABX, NETWORK MUSIC 1624 I Newsmixers, Stereomixer); I Music/sound efx libraries. OKI ELECTRIC post-production consoles INDUSTRY 3087 I (AMX, ABX); cart decks (Tom- I NEUTRIKUSA 1734 1 Standards convertors. cat, Micromax); audio routing Connectors, jackfields. switchers, DAs; studio OLESEN 3726 I design. RUPERT NEVE 2407 Lighting equip. New: On-air consoles, mix• PACO ELECTRONICS ers. Field portable mixers; OMICRON U.S.A. 3920 I post-production consoles. VIDEO 2515-2517 Power supplies, batteries. New: Model 451 NTSC/PAL I NEW ENGLAND encoder/decoder. MC switch- PALTEX 4156 DIGITAL 2307 I ers; routing switchers. DAs. New: Multisource video edi- J Digital audio workstations tors (Abner, Elite, Elan, ES/D, (Synclavier; Direct-to-Disk; OMNIMUSIC 1527 I Esprit Plus). VTR Post-Pro). Music/sound efx libraries. editor/controllers. I A.C. NIELSEN 903 I OPTICAL DISC PANASONIC Ratings service. CORP. 2231 BROADCAST New: 534 digital audio pro- SYSTEMS 4142 I NIKON 3581 cessor encoder for New: AK-450 camcorder; dig- I Lenses. I LaserDisc. Videodisc record• ital VTR. ENG/EFPcameras; ing & playback systems. camcorders; digital VTRs; I NORPAK 3783 3/4-, 1/2-inch VTRs; cart New: TIX600 teletext ORBAN ASSOC. 1630 I automation/MERPS; TBCs; receiver. New: Optimod-HF; pro- I NTSC encoders/decoders. I grammable parametric See ad on p. 66-67 equalizer. BME April 1989 95 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING PANASONIC I PHOTOGRAPHICEQUIP. QUALITYVIDEO INDUSTRIALCO./ SVCES. 4882 SUPPLY 3383-3384 RAMSA 4142 Camerasupport equip.; pho• Equip. distributor. 3/4-, 1/2-inch VTRs;field por• tographic equip. table mixers; post-production QUANTACORP. 4526 consoles; mies, accessories; PINNACLE Charactergenerators studio monitors; studio ATRs; SYSTEMS 801 (Microgen, Delta, Orion); 2D field ATRs;digital ATRs;com• New:3D modeling rendering graphics systems; 3D model• NAB pact disc equip. station; digital video effects ing, animation; VTR LAS VEGAS See ad on p. 22-23, 24, 26 (Prizm601); desktop editor/controllers. preproduction & editing sys• 1 9 8 9 PANSOPHIC tem. 1000, 2000 & 3000 QUANTEL 5312 SYSTEMS 7917 Series modular Video I Standards convertors; elec- 2D graphics systems; 3D Workstations; digital video 1 tronic still stores; character modeling & animation. effects; 2D and 3D graphics; generators; 2D graphics sys• still store systems. tems; digital video effects; PATCHBAY digital disk recorders; VTR DESIGNATIONCO. 5344 PINZONE editor/controllers; Patchbay labels. COMMUNICATIONS2315 multisource video editors; Satellite earth stations; wire, random access editors; digi• PEERLESS cable. tal audio workstations. SALES 4086-4087 Monitor mounting brackets; PORTA-PATTERN 51771 QUICKSEY speaker mounts. Video test charts. INTERNATIONAL 3513 New:Camerasupport equip. PENNY& GILES 2201 POTOMAC Rotary& slide attenuators. INTRUMENTS 1375 R·COLUMBIA Audio test equip.; remote PRODUCTS 3468-3469 PEP 4000 monitoring systems; trans• New: Mies, accessories; in• Powersupplies, batteries. mitter remote control; AM tercoms. Telco interface stereo equip. equip. PERROTIENGINEERING See ad on p. 136 LABS 3834 PROBATIERY 3382 Lighting equip.; camera sup• Powersupplies, batteries. R*SCANCORP. 5732 port equip.; powersupplies, Weather radar/graphics. batteries. PROGRESSIVEIMAGE TECHNOLOGY 3381 RADIATION PESAAMERICA 5712 New:TBCs;frame syn• SYSTEMS 3070 New: Remotemotion control; chronizers; NTSCencoders/ New: Satellite earth stations. remote monitoring systems; decoders; PCgenlocks; transmitter remote control. character generators; di- RADIOSYSTEMS 2037 Video monitors; video test gital video effects; sync On-airconsoles, mixers; digi• equip.; character generators; and pulse code generators/ tal ATRs;radio transmitters; intercoms; TV transmitters. processors. studio furniture; equip. dis• tributor; studio design & PHILIPSLIGHTING7321 I Q·TV 3713 I construction. New: Lighting equip. New:Teleprompters. RAM BROADCAST PHILIPSTEST& QEICORP. 1147 SYSTEMS 1001 MEASURING Radiotransmitters; modula• Equip. distributor. INSTRUMENTS 5105 tion monitors, RFamps. Video test equip.; RFtest RANGERTONE equip. QSISYSTEMS 3751· I RESEARCH 3762-3766 3753 One-inchVTRs;telecines. Procamps; Colorbargenera• tors, video SID, video auto switchover. 96 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING RANK CINTEL 3926 ' ROCKWELL INTL., SAMSON New: Electronic still stores NETWORK TRANS. TECHNOLOGIES (Slide File II, Gallery DIV. 3733 CORP. 2308-2310 Photocall, etc.); weather STLs,TSLs;fiberoptic New: Post-production con• radar/graphics (CloudFile). systems. soles. Mies, accessories. Color correctors; telecines. I ROH/DIV. ANCHOR SANKEN RAPID DEPLOYMENT AUDIO 3451-3452 MICROPHONES 1645 NAB TOWERS A150 [ New:Studio monitors (An- Mies, accessories. LAS VEGAS New: Rapuptower mast, con• chor 1000/1400); audio test trolled guy wire system. 1 equip. (Series 190); inter- SATELLITE MUSIC 1 9 8 9 corns (Series 400); audio NETWORK 7617 REACH ! routing switchers (ARMS Programdistributor. ELECTRONICS 5751- ¡ 1000). 5752 I SCALA SCAequip. ROHDE& ELECTRONICS 4962 SCHWARZ 3813 RECORTEC 3910 Video test equip.; remote SCHAFER WORLD COM· Tapeerasers, degaussers. monitoring systems; teletext MUNICATIONS 1347 equip. New: Digital ATRs;studio REES ASSOC. 3483- monitors. Field portable mix- 3484 t ROHN 4013 ers; on-air consoles, mixers; Studio design & Antennas, towers. 1 cart decks; compact disc construction. I equip.; studio automation ROSCO LABS 5340 I equip. I REGISTER DATA Lighting equip. I SYSTEMS 2337 l SCHNEIDER CORP. OF New: RDSTraffic Master I & ROSCOR 4238,A210 I AMERICA 4162 I II. New: Digital video effects; New: Lenses. SNGsystems; studio furni• I RESEARCH ture. Equip. distributor; stu• SCHWEM I TECHNOLOGY dio design & construction; TECHNOLOGY 5482 INTERNATIONAL 1706 mobile vehicle construction; Lenses. I New:V-Seriesvideotape mobile facilities rental; I degaussers. technical/engineering SCIENTIFIC consultant. I ATLANTA 3423 I RETEX Satellite earth stations. INTERNATIONAL 7435 ROSS VIDEO 4977 Studio furniture. New: Downstreammulti• I SECK 3577 keyer. I Digital video effects. RF TECHNOLOGY 5451· 5453 RTNDA 4003 SELCO/SIFAM 1657 New:Antennas, towers; ENG Audio level indicators. microwave;fiberoptic sys• RYS SYSTEMS 4151 tems; GaAsFET2/2.5 GHz New: Intercoms; telco inter• SENNHEISER ELEC. Amps. STLs,TSLs; intercity face equip. Audio test equip. CORP. 1052, 1054 microwave. New: Mies, accessories; I SACHTLER CORP. OF headphones. RICHARDSON AMERICA 3958 ELECTRONICS 3852 New: Reporter& Production SENTRY SYSTEMS 2215 New:Cathode raytubes; series Iightrng equip.; Video Studio automation equip. technical/engineering con- 10 camera support equip. sultant. Pickuptubes; trans- See ad on p. 131 SESCOM 3413-3415 mitter, powertubes. Audio processors; audio test cs 1673 equip. ROCKTRON 3946 I New: Long-life ferrite heads for cart machines. 98 EME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com THE RUMORS DON'T EVEN COME CLOSE. NAB'89 SONY@ SONY COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCTS COMPANY Sony Communications Products Company. 1600Queen Anne Road. Teaneck. NJ 07666. © 1989 Sony Corporation of America. Circle 149 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING SG COMMUNI· SMPTE 5726 I production equip.; one-inch SOUNDMASTER CATIONS 2405 VTRs;TBCs;standards con- USA 7340 Towerand antenna installa• SBE 4886 I vertors; video monitors; Electronic audio editors. tions, repair. video projectors; multisource SOCIETYOFPROF. video editors; on-air con• SPECTRA SHIMA SEIKI 3073 VIDEOGRAPHERS4487 soles, mixers; post-produc• SYSTEMS 3077 20 graphics systems; 30 tion consoles; mies, acces• New:Videodisc player. VTR modeling, animation; digital SOLIDSTATE sories; studio ATRs;field editor/controIlers; video effects. LOGIC 2005 ATRs;digital ATRs;compact multisource video editors; New: Electronic audio editors disc equip. random access editors; post• SHIVELYLABS 1341 (Screensound).On-aircon• See ad on p. 99 production consoles; elec• Antennas, towers. soles, mixers; post-produc• tronic audio editors. tion consoles; digital audio SONYINFORMATION SHOOK workstations. SYSTEMSDIV. 4101 SPRAGUE ELECTRONICS A117 MAGNETICS 1446 SOLUTEC 5748 SONYMAGNETIC Heads, accessories. SHUREBROTHERS1517 Cart automation/MERPS; PRODUCTS 4101 New: Mies, accessories (Beta routing switchers, OAs;ste• New: 0-2 videocassettes; up• STAINLESS 3479-3480 Series); audio processors; reo audio OAs. graded Betacam cassettes. Antennas, towers. field portable mixers; on-air See ad on p. 20 consoles, mixers. SONO-MAG STANDARD CORP. 1105-1107 SONYPROAUDIO COMMUNICATIONS SIERRAVIDEO Cart decks; compact disc DIV. 4101 CORP. 2545-2547 SYSTEMS 7904·7906 equip.; studio automation New: PCM-334848-track Agile Omni satellite 1V New:CIK-1 H01Vkeyer. Color equip.; audio routing digital ATR;PCM-3324Adigi• receiver. correctors; format convert• switchers. tal ATR;digital audio mixer See ad on p. 41 ers, keyers; production and interface enhancements. switchers; routing switchers, SONYBROADCAST APR-24multitrack ATR;APR- STANTON OAs;sync/pulse routing; time PRODUCTSDIV. 4101 5003V two-channel ATR; MAGNETICS 1649 code equip.; component New: Betacam SPCCO MXPseries digital audio mix• Headphones,accessories. video products; audio routing camcorder; still store; new ers; mies. switchers. versions of 0-2 composite STANTRON/UNITOF digital VTR;new LMSma• SONYPROVIDEO ZEROCORP. 1712-1716 SIGMA chine. BVP-7CCOEFPcam• DIV. 4101 Tape storage systems; studio ELECTRONICS 3168 era; BVW-200one-piece New:V0-9850/9800 U-matic furniture. New: NTSCencoders/ Betacam CCOcamcorder; SPeditor and feeder/ decoders (IGM2.0). Routing BVW-70, BVW-75 Betacam recorder; V0-8800 field por• STARCASE 4782 switchers, OAs;sync and SPrecorder/editors; BVW-60 table recorder; BVU-920 Transportation cases. pulse code generators/ play-only deck; OVR-100-2 player. OXC-325camera; processors; clocks, timers; composite digital VTR;OVR- color monitors; projection STATUS audio routing switchers. 1000 0-1 component digital systems; high-band 8mm CABINETRY 7001 VTR;digital interface series; video products. Studio furniture. SIRA/DATASECURITY/ LibraryManagement System; See ad on p. 48-49 COMADCOMMUNICA· BVM-1315 broadcast STEADl·FILM 7927 TIONS 2121 monitor. SOUNDIDEAS 3826 Lenses; remote motion con• Tape erasers, degaussers; See ad on p. 4-5, 104-105 Productionmusic libraries. trol; pin-registered film gate antennas, towers. for RankCintel telecines. SONY SOUND SISCOM 7117 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY 4577 STEENBECK3877-3879 New: NewsProteleprompter. PRODUCTS 4101 New:Audio test equip. Telecines. Newsroomcomputers. New: ENG/EFPcameras; digi• tal VTRs;3/4-, 1/2-inch VTRs; SOUNDWORKSHOP STOREELCORP. 5238 SKOTEL cart automation/MERPS; PROF.AUDIO 7231 Tape storage systems. CORP. 4021-4022 NTSCencoders/decoders; New:Time code generator. electronic still stores; VTR SOUNDCRAn STRANDLIGHTING4351 editor/controllers; studio ELECTRONICS 3577 I Lighting equip. cameras; camcorders; H01V I On-airconsoles, mixers. 100 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com STREAMLINE COMMUNI• SYSTEMATION 1032 I TELEMET, DIV. I CATIONS 7211 Studio automation equip. I GEOTEL 5138 NTSC encoders/decoders; I STUDER REVOX TABER MFG.& I video test equip.; routing 1 AMERICA 1261 ENGINEERING 4017 switchers, DAs; fiberoptic Field portable mixers; on-air Tape erasers, degaussers. systems. consoles, mixers; post-pro• duction consoles; studio TAM RON TELEMETRIC$ 5105 monitors; studio ATRs; digital INDUSTRIES 3777 Triax camera controllers. NAB ATRs; cassette decks; telco Lenses. LAS VEGAS interface; ATR synchronizers. , TELEPAK SAN I TANNOY NORTH DIEGO 5746-5747 1 9 8 9 STUDIO AMERICA 7533 I New: Camera covers, cases. TECHNOLOGIES 3828 New: PBM Series & AVM stu- 1 MicPreEminence mic dio monitors; studio TELESCRIPT 5335-5336 preamp; MTS equip. monitors. Teleprompters. SURE SHOT SATELLITE TAPSCAN 1012 TELETTRA USA 3086 NETWORK 3686 Ratings analysis system. New: Digital video codec for 1 Mobile facilities rental. 45 Mo/s transmission. I TARGET TUNING 5440 SWINTEK TELEVISION * ENTERPRISES 2205 I TDK ELECTRONICS I ENGINEERING Mies, accessories; CORP. CORP. * 4983 1 1742 intercoms. Audio tape, carts; tape eras- ENG/EFPvehicles; mobile ers, degaussers. production units. SWITCHCRAn 1042, 1044 TEAC/TASCAM PRO TELEVISION EQUIP. Mies, accessories; connec• AUDIO DIV. 5577 ASSOC. 5200 tors, jackfields. Audio processors; field porta• Video delay lines, filters); au• See ad on p. 94 ble mixers; on-air consoles, dio headsets; antialiasing mixers; post-production con• audio filter; video filters to SWR 4009 soles; mies, accessories; remove audio subcarriers. Antennas, towers; wire, ca• cassette decks; compact ble; RF switches. disc equip.; reverb, special TELEX COMMUNI- See ad on p. 106 efx; audio tape, carts; ATR CATIONS 3541 synchronizers. Wireless mic systems; inter• SYLVANIA coms; telco interface equip.; LIGHTING 3900 TEATRONICS 5738-5742 high-speed tape duplicators. Lamps. New: Lighting equip. See ad on p. 97 SYMBOLICS 7017 TECCOM 3948 I TELMAK PTY. 7240 3D modeling, animation. TEKNO 7227 I TELUS SYSTEMS 2301 SYMETRIX 2304,2306 Lighting equip. New: Telco interface equip. New: Adaptive hybrid disk• based recorder/processor; TEKSKIL TENNAPLEX digital processing recorder; I INDUSTRIES 3586 SYSTEMS 5441-5442 precision level indicator. Teleprompters. Music Manager automated Video projectors. 1 CD player; antennas, towers; TEKTRONIX 3700 I technical/engineering SYSTEM New: HDTV generator family; I consultant. ASSOCIATES 5355 I video test equip.; audio test [ Equip. distributor. equip. TBCs; frame syn• TENTEL CORP. 5223- I chronizers; video monitors; 52241 sync and pulse code New: Video test equip. generators/processors. BME April 1989 101 www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING Tn 2115 TIMESSQUARE TRUEVISION 7627 UNITEDMEDIA 5544 New: Model 8888 RPUsys• LIGHTING 3286 Computer graphics hardware, New: UMI 500 video editor. tem. EBS systems. New: Fresnels, broads. software. Multi-Tasking series, Com• mander series multisource THEATRESERVICE& I TOKOAMERICA 7100 I TSM/TOTALSPECTRUM video editors, random access SUPPLY 3865-38661 Standards converters; HDTV I MANUFACTURING 719 editors; sync & pulse gens/ Lighting equip. framestore. Robotic camera systems; procs: time code equip.; 1 1 camera support equip. ATR synchronizers. THERMODYNE TORPEYCONTROLS/KEY INTL. 2415 VIDEO 5102 TIC/TELEVISION UNITEDPRESS Transportation cases. MC switchers; switching TECHNOLOGY INTL. 1134 automation; routing switch• CORP. 3500 Syndicated radio THOMSON·CSF ers, DAs; clocks, timers; cen• New: Radio transmitters; TV programming). BROADCAST 5141 tral digital thermometers. transmitters; transmitter re• See also COMARK, THOM• mote control. UNITEDROPEWORKS· SON LGTand THOMSON TOSHIBAAMERICA5168 (USA) 1722 VIDEO Studio cameras; ENG/EFP TYi/THEATREVISION Tower guys. New: TV transmitters; anten• cameras; digital efx systems; INC. 5757.5759 nas, towers; remote monitor• SNG systems; TV Lighting equip. UNISET 1752 ing systems; MTS equip. transmitters. Studio furniture. technical/engineering See ad on p. 133 TWENTIER consultant. SYSTEMS 7827 UREI 3577 TOWNSEND Business automation; news- ¡ On-air consoles, mixers; stu- THOMSON-L.G.T. 5141 I BROADCAST room computers. dio monitors. New: TV transmitters; anten- SYSTEMS 5555 nas, towers; remote monitor• TV transmitters; antennas, 27th DIMENSION 2533 USHIOAMERICA 7735 ing systems; MTS equip. towers; STLs, TSLs; transmit• New; Hyperfex music/sound Halogen lamps. technical/engineering ter remote control; MTS efx libraries. consultant. equip.; studio furniture; mo• UTAHSCIENTIFIC 4526 bile vehicle construction; TWRLIGHTING 5110 New: TAS-1 automation sys• THOMSONELECTRON technica l/engi neeri ng Tower lighting. tem). Production switchers. TUBES& DEVICES 1165 consultant. See ad on p. C3 Transmitter, power tubes. U.S.AUDIO 5368 TRANSMISSION New: Audio amplifiers, mix• UTILITYTOWER THOMSONVIDEO STRUCTURES ers; headphone monitor co. 1447 EQUIP. 5141 LTD. 1617,1619 system. Antennas, towers. Video proc amps, pulse Antennas, towers. amps, DAs; 2D graphics sys• U.S.TAPE& LABEL1533 VALENTINO 1627-1629 tems; studio & ENG/EFPcam• TRFPRODUCTION Promotional bumper strips & NEW: Music/sound efx eras; title keyers, chroma• MUSIC 701 I inside window labels. libraries. keyers, downstream keyers. New: Carlin music library, compact discs. ULTIMATIECORP. 5165 VALLEY TIFFENMFG. Video image compositing de• INT'L 2030,2032 CORP. 3744-3746 I TRIMM 7636 vices; camera support Digital audio compressor ex• Lens filters. 1 Connectors, jackfields. {Ultimatte Memory Head). pander. Mies, accessories; noise reduction systems. TIMELINE 2416 TROMPETERELEC· UNIONCONNECTOR VTR editor/controllers; tape TRONICS 4023·4024 co. 4582-4583 synchronizers; Lynx keyboard New: Satellite earth stations; Lighting equip.; wire, cable; control unit; Lynx system wire, cable; connectors, connectors, jackfields. 1 supervisor. jackfields; tools. I UNITEDAD LABEL co. 7526·7528 I Labels for audio & video equip. 102 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com VALMONT VIDEO FINANCIAL VINTEN INDUSTRIES 3371 CORP./RIVIERA BROADCAST 809 New:Antennas, towers. BROADCAST New: Roboticcamera sys• LEASING 3883 tems; camera support equip. VARIAN Financial services. See ad on p. 123 ASSOCIATES 5300 Transmitter, powertubes. VIDEO INTL. VISTEK DEVELOPMENT 3486· I ELECTRONICS 5530 VEAM, DIV. LITTON 3487 New: NTSCencoders/ NAB SYSTEMS 3611 New:Standards convertors. decoders; standards conver- LAS VEGAS New: Fiberoptic mic snake tors; video monitors; digital multipin connectors. Connec• VIDEO LAB 7303 video effects. 1 9 8 9 tors. jackfields. New:VTRheads, electronics; time code equip. VITAL INDUSTRIES 4326 VECTOR Productionswitchers; MC TECHNOLOGY 2137 VIDEOMAGNETICS 5438 switchers; switching automa- New: Radiotransmitters. New:VTRheads, electronics; tion; routing switchers, DAs. tape erasers, degaussers; VEETRONIX 5751-5752 transmitter, powertubes. VORTEX MCswitchers. COMMUNICATIONS1521 VIDEO SVCES. New:VTRheads, electronics; VEGA/A MARK IV UNLIMITED 7228 NTSCencoders/decoders; co. 3846-384 7 Camerasupport equip. standards convertors;video New:T-88 ProPluswireless test equip.; routing switch• mic, "Q" Plus intercom. Mies. VIDEOMEDIA/SED 3959 ers, DAs;sync and pulse accessories; intercoms. VTReditor/controllers; code generators/processors; multisource video editors; time code equip.; audio pro• VIDEO ACCESSORY routing switchers. DAs;time cessors; intercoms; audio CORP. 5212 code equip. routing switchers. Clocks, Routingswitchers, DAs;sync timers. and pulse code VIDEOTEK 5563 generators/processors. New: RM-8color video moni• WARD-BECK SYSTEMS tor; DM-5RARFdemodulator. LTD. 5319 VIDEO ASSOCIATES Framesynchronizers;video New: On-airconsoles, mix• LABS 4015-4016 test equip.; production ers; audio test equip.; inter• New: NTSCencoders/ switchers (Prodigy);routing coms; telco interface equip. decoders (Mark 10). switchers, DAs;sync and Field portable mixers; audio pulse code generators/ routing switchers; connec• VIDEO processors (TimesSix, Times tors, jackfields. BROKERS 3411-3512 Plus,VSG-201); audio pro• See ad on p. C4 New:Turbotelecine. Equip. gram monitors; RF distributor. demodulators. WAVEFRAME See ad on p. 112 CORP. 7817 VIDEO COMMUNI· New:Universaldigital inter• CATIONS 7117 VIKING CASES 5326 face module. Digital audio Business automation; news- Transportation cases. workstations; electronic au• room computers. dio editors; reverb, special efx. VIDEO DESIGN PRO 7317 WAVEFRONT Studio design & TECHNOLOGIES 7217 construction. 3D modeling. animation. BME April 1989 103 www.americanradiohistory.com You can slip Sony's new Yet it does what only digi• machine can operate simulta• composite digital video re• tal can do. For example, the neously as both a source and corder right into your current Sony DVR-10 composite DTTR recorder. editing suite. With its analog gives you more than 20 gener• The DVR-10is physically inputs and outputs, it con• ations of transparent digital small-half the size of a BVH- nects directly to your existing dubbing. And with its write• 2000 recorder-and its price equipment. after-read capability, one is as compact as its size. www.americanradiohistory.com And the DVR-10records you get superior dubbing capa• But see the power of digi• four PCM channels of audio, bility, data error correction, and tal for yourself. ..Contact your bringing you the same dra• built-in editing functions. Sony Broadcast Sales Engi• matic digital sound you've neer. Or call Sony at (800) been hearing on compact 635-SONY. discs. Sony Communications Products Company, 1600Queen Anne Road, Teaneck, NJ 0766!;_ © 1988 Sony Corporation With digital techniques, SONY of America. Sony is a registered trademark of Sony. BROADCAST PRODUCTS www.americanradiohistory.com EXHIBITOR LISTING I WEATHERBANK 5770 THEWILL-BURT I WSICORP. 3774.3775 Weather radar/graphics. CO. 4883·4884 New:Weather radar/graphics Antennas, towers. (NOWrad). WEATHER CONNECT 7534 WINSTEDCORP. 4965 I YAMAHAMUSIC 7205 Studio furniture. Audio processors; field porta- WEGENERCOMMUNI- ble mixers; on-air consoles, CATIONS 2109 WIREWORKS J mixers; post-production con- NAB Digital audio transmission CORP. 1760 soles; mies, accessories; 1 LAS VEGAS systems; STLs,TSLs;FM Wire, cable; connectors, studio monitors; reverb, spe- I subcarrier receiver; jackfields. cial efx. 1 9 8 9 subcarrier digital audio receiver. WOLDCOMMUNI- I YAMASHITA CATIONS 1764 ENGINEERING WHEATSTONE Satellite time brokers, I MANUFACTURE 3712, CORP. 1034 uplink/downlink svces. 38'11 New:On-airconsoles, mix• New:CVS-950Astandards ers; post-production con• WOLFCOACH 1787 converter. NTSC soles; stereo selector routing ENG/EFPvehicles; mobile I encoders/decoders; stan• switcher. production units; mobile ve- I dards converters; sync and See ad on p. C2 hiele construction. pulse code generators/ I processors. WHEELIT 3844 WORLDTOWER Transportation cases. I CO. 1470 I ZAXCOMVIDEO 5459 I Antennas, towers. New:TBCremote control. WHIRLWIND 5368 Powersupplies, batteries; I I ZONALLTD. 2401-2403 wire, cable; connectors, Audio tape, carts; magnetic jackfields. sound recording film. S.W.R. Systems with reliability; design and manufacturers of rigid coaxial transmission line systems, waveguide systems, UHF/VHF/FM antennas. S.W.R.,now under new management, has just expanded our product line, manufacturing capabilities, and engineering capacity. We are moving to our new company headquarters located in Westfield Massachusetts. For all your broadcast equipment requirements and field service needs please contact Mike Comito at: (413) 568-6571 Fax: (413) 562-5521 S.W.R.J.V.C. Lockhouse Rd. P.O. Box 1170 Serving the Westfield, MA 01086 Seeus broadcast industry for 20 years at booth #4009, 4010 & 4011 Circle 150 on Reader Service Card Page 107 106 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com ------Completely Digital FM Broadcast Stereo System ...New Digital Sound un ; ni::.Ain Broadcasting Modulation System• ProudTradition •Dynamic Future CD Quality for Mobiles 1:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. FM Improvement FCC FM Regulatory Technical Ac• tions ...FM Stereo Separation v. Re• ceiver Blend ...High-Powered Syn• chronous FM Boosters ... Optimum Bandwidth for FM Transmission ...A Report on Formation of the NRSC FM Subcommittee ...FM Directional An• tennas and New FM Short-Spacing Rules ...NTIA Irregular Terrain Pro• pagation Studio Saturday, April 29 8:45 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. Radio Engineering FCC Remote Control Policy: An Update ...Consolidating AM and FM Transmitter Sites ...Determination of the CP Gain of Sidemount CP-FM Antennas ...Practical Maintenance ... The NAB Test CD-Use and Applica• tions ...Approaches to Diplexing AM Antennas ...Automated Maintenance NAB Testing Sunday, April 30 ENGINEERING 8:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. AM Systems Engineering Overview of FCC AM Actions ...Pro• gress Report on NAB AM lmprove• ment ...Development of a Low Profile PROGRAM AM Antenna System ...Low Profile Anti-Skywave Antenna ...Alternate RADIO ENGINEERING Production of Groundwave by Struc• tures of Inherently Low Skywave SESSIONS Potential ...AM Directional Antenna Tuning: New Methodology, New Friday, April 28 Tools ...Diplexer Design: Q-Matching 8:50 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. Technique ...The Splatter Monitor and Spectrum Analyzer Digital Audio and Radio Systems Digital Audio lnterconnection ...Test• Monday, May 1 ing Digital Audio Devices in the Digi• 1:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. tal Domain ...The CD Player in the Broadcast Environment ...Planning a Radio Production and Digital Production Studio ...Digital Audio Processing Audio for Links and Subcarriers ...A Broadcast Applications for Voice Ac- BME April 1989 111 www.americanradiohistory.com 2U Shberriaker aoaq,~ottstown, P~nnsillt;aliiá194~'F"'(iílS) 327-2292 ..;it1'1•·iz. - TWX 7~0-6_53-01'?.SzFlX'(215) 327-9295 Seeus at NAB Show #5563 ~ "-~ ~~. Círcle4S1 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com tivated Microphones ...Acoustic Noise to Television and Film Post-Produc• NAB Level Measurement and Control tion Audio ...Group Delay Corrector Techniques for Broadcast Equip• for Improved TV Stereo Perform• ment ...A Digital Dynamics Processor ance ...How to Acoustically Upgrade ENGINEERING for FM Broadcast ...Operational Fea• for Stereo Television Production ... tures and User Interface Consider• Digital Audio Data Compression• ations of a RAM-Based Digital Audio A Practical Solution PROGRAM Workstation ...Analog and Digital Technology for Audio Processing ... Audio Processing for NRSC ...Digital Saturday, April 29 Audio Tape in Broadcasting 8:20 a.m. - 11:55 p.m. Television Engineering and New Technology TELEVISION A Universal Control Network. ..Man• aging Routing Switcher Growth in a ENGINEERING Multiformat World ...Digital Video: Converting Between Digital Stan• SESSIONS dards ...S-VHS Signal Processing in Time Base Correctors ...Interfacing Friday, April 28 the Tektronix VM700 Video Measure• 8:30 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. ment Set to the Real World ...Recent Developments in Solid State TV Television Automation Transmitters ... Multichannel RS- Multiplicity of Videotape and Satel- 250B Short-Haul Video Transmission lite Delivery Formats The Auto- on Fiber Optic Systems ...The PBS mated Library System The Design Technical Evaluation Process and Implementation of a Three• Camera Studio Remote Control Sys• tem ...Interfacing Newsroom and Sta• Sunday, April 30 tion Automation Systems ...UTECS• 9:00 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. A Unified System for Remotely Con• trolling Television Analog Func• UHF Transmission tions ...The Mouse: A New Approach Systems to Character Generator User lnter• Three-Tube Switchless Combiner ... face ...lncreased Versatility for the An Improved Circular Waveguide for ESBus ...Integrated Station Automa• UHF-TV ...Klystrode-Equipped UHF• tion TV Transmitters-Report on the Ini• tial Station Installations ... Giving Renewed Life to an Old UHF Trans• 1:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. mitter ...I.F. Diplexed Tetrodes vs. Multiplexed Klystrons/Klystrodes Graphics and Animation ...High Power Isolator for UHF Tele• Distributed Anti-Aliasing Through vision ...A 60 kW UHF-TV MSDC the Use of Pipeline Architecture in Klystron Transmitter Graphic Systems ... NBC Olympic Graphics and Animation ...Electronic Graphic Interface to Newsroom Com• 1:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. puters ...Film Style Creativity and Digital Power in Video Animation ... HDTV Production Trends in Weather Graphics, Images Lighting for HDTV Production ... and Hardware ... High Resolution HARP-High Sensitivity, Hand-held Computer Scan Conversion HDTV Camera ... High Definition Television Post-Production ...HDTV Transcoding, A Versatile Standards 3:00 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Converter ...HDTV Camera Lens Re• quirements ... The Hardware and Television Audio Software of HDTV Production ... Report on the BTSC Modulation Mon• Multistandard HDTV Signal itoring Committee ...A New Approach Generation BME April 1989 113 www.americanradiohistory.com NAB SPECIAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING SESSIONS PROGRAM Sunday, April 30 FINALLY ... 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. Professional A Fully Development Images, Stereotypes and the Broad• cast Engineer ...Engineering Manage• Solid State ment Made Simple 1 kW UHF TV 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Transmitter,• Computers for Broadcast Engineers Computers in an Engineering Depart• ment ...Applications of High Speed Lo• NO TUBES!!! cal Area Networks in the Broadcast Environment ...Technical Documenta• tion and the Personal Computer ...The Use of On-Line Services for the Visit Broadcast Profession ...The Evolution Monday,May 1 of Microcomputer File Transfer Pro• COMARK 8:45 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. tocols ...On-Line Communications and the Broadcaster Advanced Television I At NAB Report on the FCC Advisory Commit• tee ...Testing of ATV Systems for Ter• 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Booth #5141 restrial Broadcasting by the Ad• vanced Television Test Center ...Cable Professional Licensing Testing for Advanced Television for Engineers To See The Systems ...Propagation Testing for Advanced Television Broadcasting Latest Systems ...The Cost of Converting a Monday,May 1 Broadcast Facility to HDTV ...The 8:45 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Advancements Spectrum-Compatible HDTV Trans• mission System ...Advanced Compat• Pre~aring for an FCC ible Television-An Update ...The Use Technical Inspection In UHF TV of Genesys Technology for HDTV Technical Compliance in a Deregu• Transmitter lated Environment 1:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. 9:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Technology. 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Dawson, Hatfield and Dawson Circle 153 on Reader Service Card Page 107 BME April 1989 115 www.americanradiohistory.com WHY WTVH-TV'S BRUCE LEVY LOVES For more than 20 years, WTVH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Syracuse, N.Y, has broadcast HIS its news using EPO remote camera control systems. During that time, the systems have outlasted four sets of cameras-a clear EPO testament to EPO's durability and reliability For most of those years, as Bruce Levy,the production chief at WTVH-TV, will tell ROBOTIC you, the station was virtually alone among American broadcasters. Now, of course, all that has changed. Ameri• CAMERA cans are beginning to wake up to what their European brethren have known for some time-that EPOCamera Control CONTROL Systems can save them money. Lots of money! SYSTEM. But even EPO Robotic Camera Systems don't last forever. Recently, when WTVH-TV's 20-year-old unit began to show some wear and tear, Bruce Levy confidently ordered three new ones from AF. Associates, thereby continuing his and WTVH-TV's long asso• ciation with the EPO systems. If you would like to know more about Bruce Levy's favorite way to save money, call AF. Associates. In the east: (201) 767-1201; in the west: (619) 277-0291. THERADAMEC EPOROBOTIC CAMERA CONTROL SYSTEMS. Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by A.F.ASSOCIATES INC. ADVANCED SYSTEMSAND PRODUCTS FORTHE VIDEO INDUSTRY 100 STONEHURST COURT, NORTHVALE, NJ 07647 A.F.Associates, Inc. is a Video Services Corporation company. Circle 154 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com NUMBER SEVEN SPECIAL SECTION APRIL 1989 BTP Says Bose FMX Report Flawed CompuSonics it's a great product and Quits it doesn't use a lot of roadcast Technology Partners (BTP) of memory." Greenwich, CT has formally responded to a Manufacturing Ironically, the move report critical of the FMX stereo broadcast Digital audio company may lead to the manufac• model authored by Drs. Amar Bose and Wil• CompuSonics Corp. has ture of mass storage liam Short of the Bose Corp. The Bose/Short stopped manufacturing its functionality, the one report was presented at MIT in Bost.on on radio-oriented recording, "piece of the pie" that January 25, 1989. (See EME, March 1989, p. 67.) BTP editing and automation broadcasters have long developed the FMX system. equipment. The Palo Alto, sought from digital audio Terming the report "sophistry," BTP executives Emil CA-based firm will become systems. "The Cornpu• Torick and Tom Keller cite real-world experience of over a contract engineering and Sonics algorithm doesn't 50 stations transmitting FMX in varied formats and ter• R&D licensing firm con• require as much space as rain conditions. This data does not support the Bose• centrating on its core data direct recording-mass Short result; BTP further concludes the report is flawed processing and CSX data storage would make it all in theory and method. compression technologies. worthwhile," Laird said. BTP says the Bose/Short mathematical model claimed "We have no doubts as an original development was first used by RCA as about the actual technol• early as 1945. The Bose report does not define the FMX ogy and we would never system mathematically and also treats time-varying abandon current owners," modulation functions as static values, BTP says. CompuSonics chairman NRSC FM The fixed values chosen for these variables are worst• David Schwartz told BME, Committee to case examples with small statistical probability of occur• pointing out that the com• rence in real-life, the company adds. In addition, the re• pany will support existing Test at WAEB• port illustrates an inadequate understanding of warranties. "We blazed a AM/FM multipath theory and applies flawed reasoning in order trail with this technology. Tl:-_eNational Radie to "shock" readers, BTP says. Now it's time for other Sys"tems FM Committee BTP further claims Bose and Short followed inappro• people to manufacture and will conduct a six- priate experimental procedures. Worst-case data was design correctly targeted mon th tes; project O.I;l generated, for example, by parking a mobile receiver in broadcasting products." FM multipath at con• a deep null during measurement. BTP also says the Digital Trends Inc. of temporary bits statio.n radio station and the receiver used in the test were Concord, CA and British WAEB-AM/FM, Allen• seriously impaired. A proof-of-performance was not corporation Ferrograph towq,, PA. Edward conducted on the RF chain of the station in question Ltd. have been granted Schober, .F:adiotech• (WMBR-FM, MIT-licensed, 200 W), while the receiver's full licenses to manufac• niques, wil. act as con• FMX decoder chip was an early prototype not suitable ture the company's exist• sulting engineer. for mobile reception. ing line of magnetic and Project co-crdinator BTP concludes the poor test results may derive from a optical disk recording Harry Simons, CE of high degree of synchronous AM noise in the transmis• equipment. Digital Trends WABB-AMJFM and a sion chain coupled with multipath reception conditions. and Ferrograph, which ex• member o': the NRSC, EME will analyze both points of view in-depth in the tended a limited Compu• says the station offers a May issue, while BTP and Bose Corp. will debate at the Sonics license, will also "textbook example" of Public Radio Conference, San Francisco, also in May. service existing products. multipath.. Site tests fo• The move should not cusing on i:he station greatly affect radio broad• transmitter and a mo• casting, according to bile test van supplied CompuSonics owner Andy by Delco Electronics are Errata: NCMO Laird, CE of KDA Y-AM, expected to begin in References to x- and y- axes of periodic wavefcrrm dis• Santa Monica, CA. "If late. May. Other manu• play were transposed in text on p. 80, "The NCMO someone else picks up the facturers are also pro• Breakthrough", BME, December 1988. licenses and manufactures viding .resources, compatible product, that will be great. Sonically, BME April 1989 117 www.americanradiohistory.com WHAT'S NEW IN RADIO survey of the major radio transmitter manufacturers A points out some clear trends. Solid state RF stages and computer TRANSMITTERS? control are the current theaters of re- finement in transmitter design throughout the marketplace. Incremental improvements continue in AM and For example, Continental Electron• ics has introduced fully solid-state FM broadcast transmitter design. Here's an transmitters for both AM and FM overview of some recent innovations. applications. The Continental XL-310 is a 10 kW, all-solid-state AM trans• mitter utilizing power-FET devices. A 1 kW version, the XL-301, is also available. The power amplifiers, ex• citer and control system are all sup• transmitters. The system provides plied on plug-in modules, providing monitoring and control both locally easy replacement, and "soft-failure" and remotely (via modem to an out• in the case of the amplifiers. The man• board PC) of all major transmitter ufacturer claims these transmitters functions. Transmitter on/off, power are relatively insensitive to load con• level and phaser pattern change (for ditions, and can be trimmed to match AM) or antenna heater control (for a wide range of antenna impedances FM) can be preprogrammed and with self-contained networks. Conti• stored for over a year in advance. nental has also designed a retrofit Measured data is also stored down to solid-state RF driver for direct field millisecond resolution, allowing the replacement of the 4-400C driver tracing of trends, and logging output tubes in its high-power AM transmit• Broadcast Electronics' MVDS system to a standard printer is available. ters. Current models of Continental's screen display. Shown here is page three, Storage memory is internally backed 317C-3 50 kW AM transmitters are the "CustomerConfiguration"screen,with up by battery. All common electrical which the user determines allowable max• now so equipped from the factory. All ima and minima for all monitored parameters of transmitter operation of the company's AM power amplifi• functions. can be measured, as well as room tem• ers now feature broadband untuned perature and air flow status. User-de• circuits, and bandpass rather than fined limits and alarms can be estab• harmonic filtering, thereby eliminat• 50 W exciter. Continenta] has imple• lished for selected parameters, and ing tuning controls and improving au• mented a modular solid-state RF additional control/monitoring paths dio quality and AM stereo perfor• driver system in its higher powered for external equipment are also mance. This type of circuitry seems to 816R series of FM transmitters as provided. reflect another mini-trend through• well. This series ranges up to 70 kW. Meanwhile, at Harris Corp., the out the industry. The company claims increased reli• R&D department has been busy. Pri• On the FM side, 1988 saw Conti• ability and lower maintenance costs mary among their new developments nental's introduction of a fully solid• as the primary assets of the upgrade. is the DX series of digital AM trans• state 3.8 kW FM transmitter, the Continental has also released its mitters. For a full description of these 814C, featuring compact size and a "Datatrax" system for computerized groundbreaking devices, see BME's single-phase power supply. A control of its FM and solid-state AM March 1989 issue. But Harris has in• "splitter/combiner" technique is used troduced some noteworthy FM trans• with 700 W broadband amplifier mod• BY SKIP PIZZI mitter improvements as well. The ules. The transmitter also features a first is a 55 W exciter, included in the 118 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com current Harris line of FM transmit• ing to Harris. The MVDS system provides real• ters, but suited for retrofitting as This represents about a 10 dB im• time display of plate, screen and grid well. The THE-1 exciter, as it is slyly provement in AM synchronous noise voltages and currents, calculated called, is capable of modulating to over earlier designs. In keeping with plate efficiency, exciter/IPA forward + /- 200 kHz any frequency from 30 the trend mentioned earlier, these and reflected power, IPA voltage and Hz to 100 kHz. It can be switched to transmitters also employ a bandpass current, TPO and calculated ERP. operate at a 15 W output level as well. rather than a harmonic filter, thus Any values that exceed user-defined Thermal protection on the exciter re• more effectively eliminating spurious preset limits are displayed in reverse duces its output to either O or 4 W propagations. This has proven espe• video. (user-selectable), and automatically cially helpful where interference with In addition to straight measure• restores when internal temperatures FAA frequencies is concerned, accord• ment, the system exerts some addi• of the RF output amplifier and main ing to the manufacturer. tional smarts to provide overall trans• supply return to within specified lim• Power supplies have also been up• mitter condition and diagnosis of any its. Front-panel composite test inputs graded in these transmitters to meet problems, along with times and and outputs are provided, along with the ANSI/IEEE standard of6 kV/3 kA causes of any carrier interruptions. a true peak-reading baseband input (open circuit) transient tolerance on Output of this data to standard com- meter. The metering includes a xlO mains input. ;'.: multiplier, a handy new feature for Transmitters in increasing sensitivity when adjusting this HT family are • ·-~-"'"'.!;~~~;;~~~'- ~,< ,. ~ SCA or pilot injection. Specifications available at 3.5, 5, also show some improvement over 10, 20, 25, 30 and earlier product, with FM compo• 35 kW levels. Top• site SIN at 80 dB below 100 percent of-the-line units al• modulation, measured with 400 Hz at so include a sec• +I- 75 kHz deviation, with 75 µ,s ondary control unit, deemphasis, across a 20 Hz to 200 kHz in case of failure of bandwidth. Composite IMD is quoted the primary con• at 0.02 percent, using a 60 Hz/7 kHz troller, with auto• 1:1 test tone pair. TIM distortion is matic switchover stated as 0.05 percent, with 2.96 kHz capability. An al• square wave/14 kHz sine wave modu• phanumeric multi• r=t····•d ''a·•-w lation. meter is featured ~ The "Flexpatch" system is a recent on these models as Harris innovation on its HT series of well, providing dis• FM transmitters that provides a uni• play of parameter form 50 ohm interface between all name, value and sections. This allows any lower power unit of measure, Continental Electronics' solid-state RF driver module, featured RF stage to be directly connected to and nonvolatile in their317C-3 50 kW AM transmitter. the transmitter's output, should the storage of recent PA fail. A failed lower power stage overloads, their date and time. Dual puter printers is supported. A second may also be bypassed by patching the bargraph display of IPA forward and page of the system features bargraph preceding stage's output directly to reflected powers is also featured. and numeric displays used for moni• the PA input. Broadcast Electronics, Inc. has ex• toring parameters such as IPA and On most models, this is achieved on panded the popular Microprocessor PA forward and reflected powers, an internal RF patchbay. Video Diagnostic System (MVDS) on plate, screen and grid currents, and Although these FM transmitters its "A" Series FM transmitters to in• calculated plate efficiency during still contain a single-tube final stage, clude a remote control feature. Using setup and tuning. The third page al• it is housed in a quarter-wave cavity any MS-DOS computer, a transmitter lows the user to establish the maxi• rather than the more common folded can be monitored and controlled via mum and minimum limits for all half-wave variety, providing lower modem on a dial-up or dedicated measured parameters, and to invoke SCA crosstalk and -50 dB AM syn• phone line, or via an STL/SCA link. various system options. Access here is chronous noise, due to its superior The system can be operated in a peri• password protected. bandwidth characteristics, accord- odic or a constant link mode. The new remote control feature al- BME April 1989 119 www.americanradiohistory.com -- O·q - .... q__CJ... --- ';; . ·-- The Harris HT-35FM, their top-of-the-line35 kW FM transmitter, The Nautel AMPFET llD-5, a5 kW all-solid-state AM transmitter featuring the "Flexpatch" on-boardRF patching system and dual-re• to be introduced at the 1989 NAB Convention. Note four indepen• dundant controllers. Note new THE-1 55 W exciter at center left. dent 1.4 kW P.A. modules at center. lows MVDS pages one and three to be cated Main/Alternate sites. This Mul• alarm systems, air handlers, tower accessed and certain transmitter pa• tiple Transmitter Interface option light sensors, switching and ·audio rameters adjusted from an IBM PC or (MTI) also provides access to control processing, via its eight status chan• clone, equipped with at least one ofnon-RF equipment such as building nels, eight analog channels and 16 re• floppy drive and 256K RAM, running lay output channels. An auto-dial MS-DOS 3.10 or above. Hayes-com• call-out feature dials a stored tele• patible auto-dial/auto-answer mo• phone number in the event any moni• dems at the transmitter and remote tored parameter exceeds its preset cri• computer location are also required, teria, as programmed by the user. operating at 300, 1200 or 2400 baud. When the limits of any The MVDS remote control can be All remote access and operations are technology are added to any MVDS-equipped B.E. further password protected to prevent transmitter. These "A" Series trans• access by unauthorized persons. approached, mitters are available in power levels An additional option allows multi• improvements come from 1 to 35 kW. The manufacturer ple transmitters to be remotely con• specifies, however, that the original trolled at a site which includes at with increasingly inboard MVDS system must be or• least one MVDS-equipped B.E. trans• dered with the transmitter, and fac• mitter. This can be a handy feature greater difficulty and tory installed. for AM/FM operations, or for co-lo- expense. Broadcast Electronics also plans a 120 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com major RF product announcement at sign. Its modular the NAB Convention this month in approach uses four Las Vegas, but will not disclose any of independent "power the details in advance of the conven• cubes" capable of tion date. 1.4 kW each, in a :.:r-i~ ••••••••• The Canadian transmitter manu• "soft-fail" configu• 'P.... --·- . .·· \?~ ••••• -,,...J••••• lil•• facturer, Nautical Electronics Lab• ration, and a dual• r . ···~ ~- :.·· 111111111 . . oratories Ltd., maker of the Nautel redundant exciter . '..]"=·. .lllllHll ,..._,__ t ...; r 111111111 ~ 111111!111 AMPFET line, continues its pioneer• stage. No IPA sec• ---E 111111111 , alllllUll ing tradition in the solid-state AM tion is used, reflect• rt:~l-s- 7· '~:::::~:::•••••••••• transmitter arena, with its planned ing their stream• "=.}h..__; .:-·.=:~-§-. ••••••••• . _,. - ••••••••• introduction of a new 5 kW unit at lining scheme, and I ' . .Eil •••••••• NAB this year. Slated for mid-1989 is little control is re• I -~J: :::::::,: -=;=-" the installation of a Nautel 100 kW quired. ~ ···-I.... all-solid-state AM transmitter in Is• Nautel contin• - ~-:::::::-.. rael, the first of its kind at that power ues to examine the :•~ -.. level. FM broadcast mar• ¡ . ge:::::::: Nautel virtually revolutionized the ket, but so far has :::::-::·····=== aeronautical radio beacon world with no definite plans :::::::::•••••••••·····-::.. the first all-solid-state transmitters for entering it, be• ª Q ··:::1:1•• for that market in 1969, and is now ing satisfied with ::::::::: the western world's major supplier of its current share of 9==···~:::1••::-fl··· such wares. Since entering the AM the AM/MW and ::=·:::::1••:1c •: broadcast market in 1982, the com• navigational radio Q :::::::::~~. pany has taken a more evolutionary markets. But some• ::::;:::: approach, starting with a 10 kW all• thing big may be •••••••••::::::::: solid-state, and gradually expanding in the works, which .:-''••'' the line to span the power levels from the company will 400 W to 100 kW. Nautel claims to only vaguely hint continually streamline and simplify at as yet. Stay its hardware, and a comparison of tuned for the latest their past and present specifications developments. appears to confirm the improvements. And at QEI, a Harmonic suppression is 20 dB better relative newcomer, Model 814C from Continental, a 3.8 kW, all-solid-state, compact now than in 1982, and distortion pa• the modular ap• high-performance, modular-design FM transmitter. rameters are less than half what they proach has been were. given a slightly different twist. Their kW or a 10 kW unit. These compact Nautel's new 5 kW model incorpo• FMQ series of FM transmitters can be devices measure only 24 inches wide rates the most recent of their refine• field-upgraded in power by exchang• by 76 inches high and run on single• ments, yielding superior specs, high ing driver cards and P.A. assemblies, phase power. QEI's higher powered reliability, and relatively simple de- thus turning a 3.5 kW model to a 5 transmitters can use any of these FMQ units as a driver section for its 20, 30 or 60 kW designs. When the limits of any technology are approached, improvements come For More Information Harris Corporation with increasingly greater difficulty Quincy, IL and expense. And so it goes here, as To find out more about transmitter (217) 222-8200 these manufacturers continue to advances, contact: press the frontier along, generally Nautical Electronics Laboratories, with small but significant steps. We Broadcast Electronics, Inc. Ltd. (Nautel) can look forward to more of the same, Quincy, IL Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada with the implementing of further (217) 224-9600 (902) 823-2233 automation, digital and solid-state Continental Electronics QEI Corporation devices, and other advances, in pur• Dallas, TX Williamstown, NJ suit of greater transmission quality (214) 381-7161 (609) 728-2020 and reliability. • BME April 1989 121 www.americanradiohistory.com COMPUTE Calculate Approximate 'Flat Earth' Groundwave Field Strength By Ronald F. Balonis y the turn of the century, futur• Such accuracy is neces• ists predict, there will be more sary, of course, for filings computers on this planet than with the FCC. But, for the human beings. "Benevolent" kind of armchair what-if PCs, dedicated to the needs of engineering most of us individuals, useful for increas• do, such accuracy is not ing skills, productivity, and necessary. This month's lightening work loads will be• Compute program, come an invading innovation GWBME.BAS, calculates impacting nearly every facet of human life and just an approximate "flat every human endeavor. earth" groundwave field strength at a distance, to Useful innovations have a way of doing that, keep speculation and simulation simple. and also have a way of defining their own uses• Regardless of frequency, the methods of cal• their own reasons for being. The best reasons and culating or predicting field strengths, manually uses flow from the curiosity and the ingenuity of or by computer, are not simple or easy. They tend users, becoming redefined and shaped by their to be complex and involved because propagation needs and their personalities, and changing the in the real world is complex and involved-many way we think, and the way we do things-in factors can affect field strength at a distance. broadcasting too. At distances beyond the radio horizon (beyond The FCC, in a recent Notice of Proposed the earth-is-flat-distance), calculations, accurate Rulemaking, MM Docket No. 88-510; FCC 88- ones, require complex equations to compensate 326, proposes to specify the computer program for the effect of the curvature of the earth, and the GWFCC.FOR, listed in FCC/OET86-1, as the way refraction and diffraction in the atmosphere. to calculate AM groundwave field strength. The However, according to propagation theory, the Commission proposes to replace antiquated light earth's curvature does not introduce serious er• boxes with computers. GWFCC.FOR, written in rors until the flat earth distance 50/(MHz)113 is Fortran, gives the three necessary significant exceeded by a factor of two. At that distance, the decimal digits of accuracy, and, in addition, the reduction in field strength tends to be caused program has been compiled to work on more by the curvature of the earth than by microcomputers. ground losses. GWBME.BAS displays the flat earth distance as the "Too Far" distance. GWBME.BAS * Approximate Groundwave Field Strength * GWBME.BAS calculates ground• Distance in Freq. Eff.Fld. Cond. Dist. *Too Far* GW F.S. tively simple method given by A. (maz ) (mv/m@lmi) (mmho/ms) (mi) (mi) (mv/m) Sommerfeld (1909, 1930) and K. A. l. 60 100.0 10.0 1.00 42.75 85.2432 For almost a century, VINTEN has been the choice of professionals the world over. Why? Quite simply, it's our panorama of features ranging from smoothness of motion to the precision accuracy of our Classic Range of Camera Mountings. Equipment that's clearly superior - able to quickly capture each shot both in the studio and in the field. 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Circle 157 on Reader Service Card Page 107 www.americanradiohistory.com SPECTRUM THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT Engineers: Time to Renew By Harry Cole s just about every broadcaster Human Exposure to Radio Frequency Electro• realizes by now, license renewal magnetic Fields, 300 kHz to 100 GHz" (ANSI season is back. In the early C95.1-1982). The document is available from the 1980s Congress extended the ANSI sales department at (212) 642-4900. normal license terms of broad• If you were already a licensed station when the cast stations from three years Commission initiated its efforts on RF radiation, for all stations to five years for those efforts had no immediate impact since you television licenses and seven could continue to operate without any further ac• years for radio. This meant that tion by the Commission. The guidelines apply for the last five years most broadcasters were only to actions taken by the FCC such as granting probably not particularly worried about prepar• construction permits. But renewals of outstand• ing renewal applications. This is doubly true for a ing licenses are deemed "actions". Thus by vir• station's engineering staff, since renewal applica• tue of the license renewal process, every broad• tions seldom demanded much detailed engineer• cast licensee will now be ing information. But two aspects of the present subject to FCC scrutiny renewal process do entail involvement by the sta• relative to RF radiation. tion's technical staff. With that in mind, we offer This means that each li• the following background. censee must include a First, station engineering staff are likely to be statement that the station most directly involved in preparing a certificate is in compliance with concerning the station's compliance with RF radi• ANSI standards relative ation guidelines established by the American Na• to RF radiation as part of tional Standards Institute (ANSI). Pursuant to its renewal application. If Cole is a partner in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the station is not in com• Bechtel, Borsari, Cole the FCC is required to consider as part of the li• pliance with ANSI stan• & Paxson, a Washing• ton,DC-basedlauifirm. censing process whether any license or permit it dards, the licensee must issues significantly affects "the quality of the hu• (except in very limited cases) submit an "envi• man environment." Several years ago the Com• ronmental assessment." This is a narrative mission concluded that this mandate included statement describing various aspects ofthe an• the effect of RF radiation on the area sur• tenna site such as its zoning classification, rounding antennas. In particular the Commis• whether there has been local environmental sion must determine whether its actions controversy about use of the site and the cri• would lead to the exposure of workers or.the teria and environmental considerations general public to levels of RF radiation ex• which led to the selection site. ceeding ANSI health and safety guidelines. The FCC has not adopted a specific form These guidelines are fully described in to govern the certificate or the environmen• the FCC's Office of Science and Technology tal assessment. If your station meets the Bulletin No. 65, "Evaluating Compliance ANSI standards, normally you only need with FCC-Specified Guidelines for Hu• to say that and possibly add a little fac- man Exposure to Radiofrequency Radia• tual explanation to support the state• tion," October 1985. You can order a ment. Obviously, the statement must copy from the National Technical In• be signed and dated. formation Service, (800) 336-4700- If you determine that there might ask for Order No. PB 86-127081. be some question as to your station's The standard itself is available compliance with the ANSI stan• in "American National Standard dards, the Commission has pro• Safety Levels with Respect to vided some useful tips. 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Odetics Broadcast 1515 South Manchester Avenue, Anaheim, California 92802-2907 example, if you determine that your antenna is rollment and special interest organizations (e.g., producing high RF levels at ground level, you NAACP, National Organization for Women, may still be able to certify that you are in compli• LULAC, etc.). ance ifthe site is a remote one not likely to be vis• If you are given primary responsibility for in• ited by the public and if appropriate warning terviewing job applicants and making hiring deci• signs are posted. If the site is in an area which is sions, you should keep a list of all the applicants likely to be used by the public (including trespass• you speak with plus copies of all resumes, job ers), you can still assume that no significant ef• applications and other paperwork submitted in fect is being caused on the humen environment if connection with the application. You may include the area in question is fenced and marked by ap• in your files notations as to each applicant's race, propriate warning signs. ethnic origins and gender, together with an indi• If, however, high RF levels are being produced cation of how each applicant happened to learn of in occupied structures (like offices, homes, balco• the job opening. This is to ensure that if a ques• nies, rooftops, etc.) or at ground level in an area tion is ever raised about the station's hiring ef• which is used or is likely to be used by the public forts, you will be able to document those efforts - and which cannot be restricted from public access, few things are worse than knowing that you have then a mere certificate won't do the trick: You'll made diligent recruitment efforts and not being have to do a full environmental assessment. And able to prove it. the bad news is that you may be required to mod• We mention the EEO aspects of hiring engi• ify your facilities to reduce exposure to RF or risk neers in particular because there may be a ten• not getting your license renewed. dency to utilize, literally, an "old-boy" network Obviously, the matter of RF radiation is one for such positions. According to a January 1989 which the Commission is treating seriously. In report from the FCC, fewer than 14 percent of all view of the potential downside exposure for any the technicians employed at broadcast stations station which wants its license renewed, it's an are women. This is less than half the percentage area to which attention should be paid well before of females represented in the "officials and man• preparing the application. agers" category or the "professionals" category. The second area of the current renewal process Some may attribute the low number of women in which may involve engineers may come as some• technical positions to a shortage of qualified fe• thing of a surprise: the station's equal employ• male engineers. Others may assert that there is ment opportunity report. As you are probably no such shortfall and that the low employment aware, the FCC expects its broadcast licensees to figures reflect a bias in the industry - and par• adopt and implement an affirmative action em• ticularly among technicians - against hiring ployment program aimed at assuring a reason• women. The best way to prove this latter group able number of minority and female job appli• wrong is through the adoption and diligent imple• cants and, ideally, a reasonable number of mentation of an EEO program, and thorough minority and female employees in each licensee's record-keeping. employment profile. Since the renewal application is intended to If you happen to be consulted about hiring tech• provide the Commission an indication of how nical personnel, you should be sensitive to the your station has performed during the past li• Commission's expectations in the EEO areas. cense term, there is precious little you can do dur• First, any time you have a position to fill, you ing the last couple of months of that term to im• should try to notify minority and female recruit• prove on shortfalls which may have extended over ment sources. The idea is to maximize the likeli• the entire remainder of the term. You would hood that qualified minority and female candi• therefore be well-advised to do your homework dates can be made aware of the position in time to throughout the license term. If you do - believe it apply for it. Potential sources include local or not - the renewal process should be a simple, schools with significant minority or female en- non-stressful experience. • 130 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com Sachtler. The new dimension in lighting. IFor news gathering and productions. Brighter, more equal distribution; lighter, more durable. We will prove it to you at NAB'89. Open face technology with a focussing range up to 1:6. Tungsten-halogenand flickerfree daylight (HMI). From 100Watts up to 1.2kw. For battery- and 110AC-operation. Switch on to Sachtler at NAB '89 April 29th - May 2nd, or write for more information. sachtler corporation of america 55 North Main Street Freeport, N.Y.11520 Phone (516)867-4900 Telex140107 sac frpt Fax(516)6 23-68 44 California office: 3316WestVictory Blvd. Burbank, CA 91505 Phone (818)845-4446 Circle 159 on Reader Service Card Page 107 Visit us at NAB Booth 3968 www.americanradiohistory.com EQUIPMENT Hypertronics Unveils Power Supply Connector . U.S.Line Master Offers Ground Fault Alarm . Digital Offline Editors Introduced... RGB Has Scan Converters... Altronic Premieres Dummy Loads Hypertronics Unveils Power of thin horizontal lines in wire frame Supply Connector drawings and user interfaces to flicker in an interlaced display for• odels with 8, 15, 25, 50, and mat. The RGBNideolink accepts full 200 amp contacts comprise screen, non-interlaced RGB input and Mthe new "L" series low inser• provides genlock, sync generation and tion force (LIF) connector line from encoding to output NTSC video. Con• Hypertronics. These rack and panel version is accomplished in real time blind matable connectors combine without software modifications and small size with low, .25 to 2.5 mil• provides the solution to making vid• liohm, contact resistance. Solder cup, eotape from any computer source. crimp, and flow solder contacts are Reader Service #205 available. Delivery is 14 weeks. Price is $40 to $100 in unit quantities of 1000. Altronic Premieres Dummy Reader Service #202 Loads art of the Omegaline 5700 se• U.S. Line Master Offers ries, model 57100B from Al• Ground Fault Alarm Ptronic Research is a depend• able, high-power water-cooled load at odel GFA-450 detects and a reasonable price. Rated for continu• alerts the user of ground-loop lows an editor or producer to view ous duty at at 100,000 W of RF power, M currents as small as 5 milli• scenes in any order instantly, accord• the unit offers a reflective power ratio amperes. Coaxial cable (digital data, ing to the manufacturer. Up to eight of less than 1.15 to 1 through 800 video, multiplexed baseband and syn• hours of source material can be trans• MHz and a water flow of only 12 gpm. chronizing) circuits are especially ferred into the system and stored digi• The single resistor design improves susceptible to ground loops. A sepa• tally as low resolution color images. water flow and simplifies resistor rate current sensor is positioned ei• Raw footage can be scanned at 16 replacement. ther around conductors carrying all times normal speed or frame-by• Model 57200B is rated for continu• phases and neutral or around the neu• frame. Changes can be made at the ous duty at 200,000 W of RF power tral to ground connector. Remote beginning of a sequence without los• and has a VSWR ofless than 1.10 to 1 hookups of up to 100 or 1000 feet are ing work done past the edit point. through 450 MHz. Water flow is 19 possible. Even when a grounding Reader Service #204 gpm. problem has been found and cor• Reader Service #206 rected, continuous monitoring is desirable. RGB Has Scan Reader Service #203 Converters SSE Introduces 8 Watt Ku-Band Transceiver GB Technology has announced Digital Offline Editors the availability of its RGBNi• powerful 8 W transceiver for Introduced Rdeolink line of scan converters use in Ku-band satellite termi• to convert computer graphics from A nals has been introduced by ditÍng Machines Corp.'s Emc2 MAC II, PS-2 and PC computers to SSE Technologies. The unit can be digital offline editing system is a NTSC video. These converters feature used in very small aperture terminals Erandom access system that al- a filter which eliminates the tendency (VSATs), ground station hubs, and 132 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com The Toshiba 2000 Series meets your total needs with unbeatable reliability, cost- . efficiency and flexibility. Power outputs range from 8kW to 64kW. Over 35 years of proven experience, original high technology and in-house key compo• nent production give you a reassurinq edge. 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Increased tion antenna to a remote receiver or III sound library and stored in ROMs power allows higher speed data with• headend over an optic fiber for dis• for instant access. The module allows out changing the antenna size. The 8 tances up to 15 miles. Transmission is a sound's brightness to change natu• W unit joins the 2 and 4 W versions of immune to microwave interference rally with its dynamics and also has the ASAT 1214 family, all of which are and weather conditions and does not the ability to take sounds apart and compatible with the North American, require a repeater. An input auto• reassemble them into multitudinous Intelsat, Eutelsat and Aussat stan• matic gain control (AGC) circuit opti• new sounds. For ease of use by the dards. Operation is full two-way mode, mizes system noise and linearity per• serious programmer, Opcode Systems or transmit or receive only. SSE Tech• formance over a wide range of input will offer an editor/librarian package nologies is the former Satellite signal levels. An output AGC circuit to be available for both the Macintosh Business Communications Group of maintains the desired output signal and Atari ST computers. Available Avantek, Inc. level over the specified range of opti• this spring at $995.00. Reader Service #207 cal loss. Reader Service #209 Reader Service #208 Ortel Presents TVRO Fiber Midwest Offers Satellite Optic Link E-MU Systems Intros Indicator/Controller Digital Sound Module ystem 6000 from Ortel Corp. ode! RC-8097B from Midwest consists of a model 6300A fiber roteus contains, in a one rack• Communications is the an• Soptic laser transmitter and a space enclosure, four mega• M swer to fast, accurate satellite model 6400A photodiode receiver. Pbytes (internally expandable to news vehicle operation by even non• The system is used to transmit the 8 megabytes) of high quality 16-bit technical operators, says the manu• LNB output from a satellite earth sta- samples selected from the Emulator facturer. Loran-C navigation signals "FIBER ACTIVE" VIDEO TRANSMIITER. WEIGH THE ADVANTAGES. Weigh the advantages of The Facts of Light: this fiber optic video link • Beatscoaxsystems by 24,500feet. ' and you'll definitely see • Zero loss in signal quality. the light. • Picture perfectaudio/video resolution. Advantages that most • Unrestricted freedom of movement. broadcast engineers • ExceedsEIARS-250BStandards. thought were not even a remote • Ruggedized, impact resistant housing. possibility are now a reality. Like 8 km • Can be worn on belt or held in your hand. of repeaterless audio/video • No heavy equipment, no cable transmission with zero loss in jockeys,no locationtoo remote. quality. 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Features in• operate and suited to a number of the correct azimuth and elevation of clude microprocessor-controlled fre• applications including CATV the antenna. As the final operation, quency agility, superior quality au- trunking and distribution, interactive the antenna controller function of the RC-8097B takes over and automati• cally points the mobile KU-band antenna. Reader Service #210 Oscilloscope Probe Kits From Pomona wo new series of replacement oscilloscope probe kits have Tbeen introduced by Pomona Electronics. Probes mate with all B&K, Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard, Philips and Leader scopes. One ver• sion is a standard replacement series and the other is a modular replace• ment series fitted with threaded con• nections to facilitate field repair. Reader Service #211 NEC Debuts Digital Codec perating at a rate between 384 Kb/s and 2.048 Mb/s as deter• Omined by the user, the Visual• ink 3000 video codec codes analog video to digital and digital to analog. The Visualink 3000 is an advanced digital international/domestic televi• sion codec which is software up• gradable to conform with known fu• ture requirements of the CCITT standards for TI codecs. The codec transmits audio and video signals to• gether with other digital data such as that from a facsimile machine, elec• tronic wiring board or graphics table. Reader Service #212 Orchard Has FM Modulation Equipment rchard Communications is in• troducing the 1000 series, a Onew generation of FM modula• tion equipment for fiber optic trans- Circle 161 on .CleaderService Card Page 107 BME April 1989 135 www.americanradiohistory.com NEW EQUIPMENT AT video conferencing and distance NAB learning networks. Reader Service #221 BOOTHS 3468 & 3469 Gentner Announces New Remote Control System LongRangeFM Wireless Intercom Headphones-Self contained FM transmitter, receiver, and battery supply. New Model TR-160 operates 144 to 174 MHz and has a range of 1-2 miles. entner has its new VRC-2000 remote control system for AM, ENG/IFB/Telephone-"Hands Free" telephone with exclusive features for ENG and GFM and TV transmitters ready "Dial-Up" IFB work New model features both tone and pulse dialing. Small size is only 2" x 4" x 1" with a clip for attaching to the user's belt. for immediate shipment. Transmit• ters may be monitored and controlled Sony Replacement Cameraman's Headphone- A heavy duty from any number of computer termi• replacement for the Sony Model DR-100 which features a NEW 4-circuit mini-plug. Available in single nals or through any touch tone tele• or double ear models. phone. The system will remind the Base Station Interface - Interfaces FM Wireless Intercom Headphones with any user if he attempts to exceed any pre• "Hard-Wired" intercom systems such as Clear Com, RTS, Telex, etc. Full or partial duplex. AC line set parameter and will call five phone (120v} or battery operation. Uses license-free frequencies. numbers in succession if a failure Request Catalog CZ-3 or Try Them At NAB Booths 3468 & 3469 causes any of these parameters to be exceeded. The new system is an up• R·COLUMBIA PRODUCTS CO., INC. grade of the VRC-1000 remote control 2008 St. Johns Ave., Highland Park, IL.60035·2499 • (312) 432·7915 TWX:910-1192·2HIO unit. Features include a built-in surge protector and an optional data Circle 162 on Reader Service Card Page 107 interface including 2400 baud modem. Reader Service #213 m;arrtronics Yamaha Offers Stereo Powered Mixers ach of three models from Yamaha's Professional Audio EDivision, the EMX2150 with six inputs and two 150 W amplifiers, the EMX2200 with eight inputs and two 250 W amplifiers and the EMX23000 with 12 inputs and two 250 W amplifi• ers features a built-in digital signal AUDIO processor, dual graphic equalizers INTERCOM & IFB DISTRIBUTION and built-in high-power stereo ampli• fiers. Units are intended as affordable consoles for sound reinforcement, entertainment systems, or any appli• cation requiring high performance at moderate cost. Prices depending on model are $1795, $1995, and $2195. Reader Service #214 .>: .-·· PUNCH AUDIO/VIDEO PATCHFIELDS BLOCKS Drake Unveils AudioNideo FARRTRONICS LIMITED Modulator 45 Campbell Ave., Kitchener, Qnl., N2H 4X8 (519) 741"1010 ln www.americanradiohistory.com trol pay TV access, will appreciate compatible equipped with any brand this audio/video modulator from the VGA board and monitor. The board Tape Degausser Premieres R. L. Drake Co. Model VM2410A us• features non-interlaced video output from RTI ers can regulate the decoding of pay and permits live video within windows. channels, directing the unscrambled The full-size board requires one slot esearch Technology Interna• signal to subscription-paying custom• and two I/O ports. List price is $1299. tional's Model VlOO conveyor ers. The modulator is a high-quality, Reader Service #217 Rtape degausser erases metal and vestigial side-band unit with access to 60 channels, including all standard and cable channels up to 400 MHz. Synthesized visual and aural carriers provide total system flexibility mak• ing it easy for cable companies to move from one channel to another since all the user has to do is dial up the desired channel. Reader Service #215 For AM, FM, SCA Sound Tech Intros and TV modulation monitors. Programmable Audio WHEN ACCURACY COUNTS ... COUNT ON... Call (215) 687-5550 or write for more Signal Generator information on Belar AM, FM, Stereo, SCA and TV monitors. esigned to exceed test equip• Circle 164 on Reader Service Card Page 107 LANCASTERAVE.AT DORSET.DEVON.PA 193:.3 ment requirements in the 16- Dbit digital era, Sound Technol• ogy's Model 3100B programmable C2 audio signal generator offers three distinct operational modes: manual, ======l~r~~fes;¡¿~;[°gof front-panel control for trouble shoot• ing; built-in automation for quick tests; and complete computerized test and measurement capability using SOUND recording external, menu-driven software. The generator sends FSK signals over the • "& duplicating · audio channel being tested, which configures the companion 3200B ana• o· \~ SUPPLIES lyzer for each test. Either or both units can be completely controlled ~ and interrogated by a compatible ter• ~ minal or PC. The 3100B uses digitally controlled analog oscillators to pro• duce sine and square wave signals in addition to SMPTE IMD, tone-burst and sine/step waveforms. now from Reader Service #216 STOCK LABELS CHICAGO and Video Overlay Board ~AMPEX Integrates Text, Graphics, 3M Scotch Video TDK maxeu rocessor Sciences has intro• duced the VGA Vision video Poverlay board, designed to add full NTSC video to an IBM PC or Circle 165 on Reader Service Card Page 107 BME April 1989 13,7 www.americanradiohistory.com Model 9700 EQUIPMENT Video Routing Switcher 2400 Crosspoints in 9 Rack Units oxide tapes. The unit achieves 75 dB erasure of metal tapes, deeper erasure Createdfor medium sizedapplications of oxide tapes. Bi-axis magnetic field with minimum expansionand unique even erases time code, audio and con• input/output requirements,the 9700Video trol track signals, says the manufac• Switcher hasa capacityof up to 2400cross• turer. The VlOO can erase 22 metal points in any input/output configuration - and still occupies only 9 rack units. cassettes per minute and is designed Pre-wiring of the unit canrange from 20 to not to overheat, even under constant 120inputs and 10to 80 outputs to produce use. any custom configuration. A bandwidth Reader Service #218 exceeding40MHz (-3dB) makesthe 9700 the perfect choicefor high definition and graphics applications, while incorporating NEC Convertor Puts S• one or more audio channelsinto the system is easily achievedby adding a Video on RGB Monitors 9600 or 6200 SeriesAudio Switcher. he SVC-10 S-Video Convertor from NEC's Professional Sys• T tems Division allows any RGB IMAGE VIDEO LIMITED monitor to show S-video presenta• u tions. 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Af• San Jose, CA, has appointed Frank automation system ter as many as 20 passes, the quality Klarer eastern regional sales man• at PBS station is equal to first generation." VTA ager. Klarer, formerly with Motorola, KLRU-TV, Austin, plans a series of seminars to acquaint will report directly to Acrian vice pres• TX. One channel is its clients with the capabilities and ident of sales Don Smith. used to automate uses of digital...Conus Communica• playback of KLRU's on-air station tions offered its subscribers complete The 1989 HDTV Conference and breaks. The second dedicated channel coverage of the inauguration of Presi• Exhibition will be held at New provides full-time automated pro• dent George Bush. "We offered clients York's Marriott Marquis June 1 and gramming for KLRU-TOO, a dedi• the opportunity to go live from all the 2. There will be a preconference cated channel on Austin's local cable inaugural balls, and from the opening session on May 31, titled "Introduc• system. The DC-800 programs the ca• ceremony of the weekend," says tion to HDTV." The conference is ble channel with essentially the same Conus White House correspondent sponsored by HDTV Newsletter and schedule as the broadcast station, but Mike McKee. Thirty-two TV news or• Meckler Conference Management. • in a different order-thus broadening ganiza ti ons used KLRU's viewer base for increased Conus' feed, in• viewer support. ABS has also in• cluding Japan's stalled an AmeriCart DC-80 auto• Fuji-TV and Uni• matic video cart system for KDOC• vision ... NASA's TV, Anaheim, CA. KDOC uses the Marshall Space system to automate both program and Flight Center, spot playback operations ... Wave• Huntsville, AL, Frame Corp. has announced instal• has completed a lation of its AudioFrame digital audio scientific visuali• workstation at eight facilities, includ• zation project us• ing singer-songwriter Stevie Won• ing animation and der's Los Angeles studio, Wonder• imaging technol• land. The other locations are Rob ogy from Intel• Arbittier, Los Angeles; Sheffield ligent Light. The Recordings Ltd., Maryland; Sound visualization is r/ Associates, New York; The Process used to describe Recording Studios, Greensboro, NC; and analyze Trax Sounds, Toronto; University of NASA's proposed California, Santa Barbara; and West Small Expandable Productions, Burbank, CA. Wonder Deployer Systems has announced his AudioFrame will (SEDS), designed be used on his next tour ...Broadcast to provide a con• Television Systems has announced trolled deployment the shipping of its lOOOth LDK-90 of payloads from CCD camera since its introduction in the space shuttle 1987. BTS has extended the LDK-90 or a space station. Mark Richer, director of programming for the family with the launch of the LDK- Public Broadcasting Service, shows off the system's 900, touted as the first frame transfer R. Terry Hoffman new half-inch MI! format equipment from CCD production camera. has been named Panasonic. The new equipment went on line in president of Cen• mid-October 1988, replacing one-inch machines, Video Tape Associates now has five tro Corp., Salt and is expected to save PBS hundreds of thousands Ampex D-2 digital tape machines Lake City. Hoff• of dollars annually. available for film-to-tape transfer, man, former presi- 140 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com ADVERTISERS INDEX Manufacturer Page Circle Manufacturer Page Circle Manufacturer Page Circle No. No. No. No. No. No. Abekas Video Systems .. 28 us Faroudja Laboratories 16 107 Polyline Corp. 137 165 Ace Communications . 70 U9 Farrtronics, Ltd . 136 163 Acoustic Systems . 70 130 Fidelipac Corp . 3 101 ADX Systems Pty Ltd . 72 131 Fujinon Inc . 52 U2 R-Columbia Products ..... 136 162 AF Associates . 116 154 Alexander Manufacturing .. 77 170-172 Alpha Video & GE Broadcast Systems Sachtler Corp. of America . 131 159 Electronics . 30 1l3 Integration . 135 161 Sony Corp. of America ... 99 149 Alta Group, Inc . 68 112 Sony Broadcast Products Ampex Avsd . 14-15 106 Inc . 4-5 Andrew Corp . 81 138 Ikegami Electronics . 74-75 133 Sony Broadcast Products Andrew Corp . 83 140 Image Video Ltd . 138 166 Inc . 32-33 Andrew Corp . 85 142 Intl. Tapetronics/3M . 44 ill Sony Broadcast Products Associated Production Inc . 104-105 Music . 138 167 Sony Tape Sales Co . 20 109 Avcom of Virginia . 79 136 Leitch Video Ltd . 57 U3 Sony Pro-Video . 48-49 uo Standard Communications Corp . 41 110 Belar Electronics ...... 137 164 Mccurdy Radio . 60 us Switchcraft . 94 147 Broadcast Electronics . . . . . 8 103 MCL, Inc . 115 153 SWR . 106 150 BTS Inc 126-127 157 Midwest Communications . 6 102 Midwest Communications . 10 104 Midwest Communications . 12 105 Telex Communications . 97 148 Camera Mart ...... 88-89 144 3M Magnetic Media . 84 141 Canon USA, Inc...... 58-59 U4 Toshiba Corp., Broadcast Chyron Corporation ...... 37 115 Rupert Neve Inc. . . 47 119 Equip . 133 169 Comark Communications . 114 152 Nova Systems . 50 Ul Comrex Corporation . . . . . 87 143 John Crowe Productions . . . 73 132 Utah Scientific Cov.III 168 Cyclesat, Inc...... 65 U6 Odetics . 129 158 Vicon Industries ...... 18 108 Delta Electronics ...... 91 145 I Panasonic Broadcast Video Display Corp...... 125 156 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 76 134 Systems Co...... 66-67 U7 I Videotek ...... 112 151 Panasonic Industrial Vinten Equipment ...... 123 155 Co 22-23 114 Ellis & Watts...... 93 146 I Panasonic Industrial Co. . . 24 116 EEV, Inc...... 82 139 Panasonic Industrial Co. . . 26 117 I Ward-Beck Systems Ltd Cov.IV PCO Inc...... 134 160 Wheatstone Corp Cov.11 100 www.americanradiohistory.com CURRENTS A GUEST EDITORIAL A Vote for Dual HDTV Standards By Bruce Bredon he recent emergence of HDTV and 59.94 Hz-for primary use where these field technology has brought about rates are already being used. To simplify the much discussion concerning a manufacture and maintenance of equipment for possible "world standard" for these standards as much as possible, an attempt HDTV. Despite the disagree• should be made to standardize other aspects of the ment over bandwidth and broad• signal such as H line rate, pixel rate, and color casting standards, it surprises encoding method. me that a suitable basic scan This is a case where digital acquisition and re• standard has not yet been cording can be of great benefit. Digital recording, agreed upon by the industry. for example, need not involve exactly one rotation My impression is that everyone is so focused on of a scanner (or whatever future method is devel• how pretty a picture RGB HDTV makes, they oped) for each field. In fact, I don't believe there seem to completely ignore the severity of the tem• needs to be any poral distortion that results from standards con• particular asso• versions between different field rate systems. The ciation between European 1250/50 standard makes sense for con• media scanning version to 50 Hz field rate European TV; but we speed and field are all well aware of the severe temporal distor• rate. Therefore, tion involved when converting to 59.94 Hz. The the scanner need talked-about 59.94 Hz field rate HDTV makes not run at differ• sense only for conversion to 59.94 Hz TV stan• ent speeds for re• dards. What makes no sense at all is the tentative cording/reprod uc• 1125/60 standard proposed by Japanese and U.S. ing the different concerns. It is needless to mention that a 60 Hz field rates. Addi• standard will never be acceptable in the 50 Hz tionally, if the camp. pixel rate is stan• When converting 60 Hz temporal rate motion to dardized for both 59.94 Hz, it is necessary to omit one image ap• temporal stand• proximately every 17 seconds. The perceived ef• ards, the only difference between recording/ fect of this conversion is usually not very notice• reproducing digitized HDTV for the two temporal able unless there is a fair amount of motion in the standards need be how the pixels are transferred program material during the repeated image. between the buffer memory and the outside This phenomenon will be particularly annoying world. The recorders for HDTV could be simple when viewing sporting events such as the Olym• "pixel stream recorders," and the horizontal and pics. Imagine watching a wonderful floor exercise vertical timing information could be easily en• and perceiving that the athlete seems to "stum• coded and decoded within this data stream. ble" slightly every 17 seconds or so! Advanced We must stop arguing about which world temporal interpolation techniques could be em• HDTV scan standard to adopt, and accept that, ployed, but I find it difficult to believe that such like it or not, two standards are required. I believe methods could adapt to all program material we should spend our time and energy analyzing without some undesirable artifacts. the ramifications of acquiring, recording, editing The only method that can completely eliminate and distributing these two temporal standards on temporal distortion when converting to existing the same equipment with the least amount of in• TV standards is to adopt two standards-50 Hz herent problems. We can then, for the first time, truly work together to develop a set of compatible Bredon is chief engineer of Mincey Productions, San requirements for the dual standard that this in• Diego, CA. dustry desperately needs. • 142 BME April 1989 www.americanradiohistory.com www.americanradiohistory.com Ill H II u111u I O! o CliUTION t-(.::;_-.,(("I,,_.\1• ~Of;:\ v.:.¡~¡~,.;. e- nuc:t 11111111111111 www.americanradiohistory.com