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There was a black and white fantasy TV show called "Adam Adamant Lives!" from the 60s. The BBC always wanted to re-release it but the original contracts for the show were written w…

What's interesting about the rise of the mega weight models is that if you look at the smaller models of the same family you see some significant improvements over time. So there's…

That's my home lab, it's ugly and I am starting to use MTP breakouts instead because those DACs get in the way so much.

And an extra £40~ per server is irrelevant if we're worried about an outage on £500k-£1.5m of gear and the services they provide.

Some network guys I know prefer fibre even within the rack, just because they don't want the weight and the obstructions in the rack. Apparently more than once the weight of the DA…

Film is a chemical medium for storage of images. Video is an electronic process for capturing images and displaying them. Before digital video there was analogue video, and analogu…

As a broadcast technology architect I agree with you a whole lot on the broader technology statements. But as a former lecturer, I also think the promise of interactivity is depend…

It's definitely competing in rural areas, but Starlink does suffer from physical limitations on the number of terminals per geographic area. This is a long standing problem with ce…

Spectrum contention is going to be insane in D2D. Starlink already has to constrain the number of broadband accounts per locale to avoid saturation.

Yeah. Someone recommended Bunny to me and I looked at it previously based on that but didn't have a use case then. But as someone who regularly recommends vendors for v.big CDN con…

Yeah, I think when people are getting hundreds, or thousands of channels cheaper from some off-brand name, or from a referral from a bloke down the pub, they know what's what. It's…

As someone in the media technology business, it's very frustrating for me that the pirate streaming industry has co-opted the name IPTV for it's offerings. But it's not the article…

YouTube channel DextersTechLab was looking at a piece of retro tech, an interface box for an early broadcast painting system, it acts as a kind of hub for serial tablet, "rat" and …

A somewhere over 10 years ago a certain Linux distro company commissioned a company I worked for to make a TV specific distro. The team built something amazing, as a DVR it would h…

There's an elder gentleman I talk to in my village, I'm not sure how old he is but well over 70. He worked for old IBM in the 60s. He's still doing a little coding for charities an…

There's very little margin in pure CDN products right now, so they're likely only making money on the value add products. Any money from CDNs is likely going back into maintenance,…

There's a fine line, reduce quality too far and customer satisfaction drops. Some customers will have a higher tolerance to dropping quality than others, but you've got to draw the…

It depends on which vendor they're using. It generally occurs as patterns which are slightly in the noise. Good systems pick locations where its easier to hide and turn it off when…

It was 1999 I think, I was doing a placement at a media company. One of the PAs was heavily pregnant, an old guy in the office said to her "My my Jane, your breasts are coming alon…

My SIL, this week(!) was told by her supervisor that if she tries to apply for another team and doesn't get that job, she'll be set back in her career progression in her team. Assh…

Strippers... brothels... and /hypothetically/ I could tell one story from a well known company where a sales team got in trouble for trying to expense hookers AND blow on a busines…

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We waste so much resources in storing/transiting data in human readable forms. Ultimately it's binary, we already use software to display it, requiring the data be in forms that ar…

I'll upvote you because you're mostly right. But to be fair, there is a standard that could have been used for digital video, SDI/HD-SDI, but the transceivers were expensive and it…

That's probably how NVidia did it. But there's very little software involved in HDMI, it's mostly hardware and a control API.