[Gllug] BBC moves Linux into TV production

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 29 Jan, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
> Expensive and error-prone digital tapes has forced BBC UK, one of the
> world's largest television broadcasters, to look at using computers
> running Linux to help produce its programs.
> 
> Speaking at the annual linux.conf.au Linux and open source conference in
> Melbourne, Stuart Cunningham from BBC research, said digital tapes are
> slow to copy them it must be done in real-time.
> 
> More:
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;58613278;fp;16;fpid;0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Gabriel.
> http://lives.sf.net
> 
> 

   There is a loss of quality every time the programme content is re-edited,
and it was not unusual for a programme to contain content recorded earlier
in the day that was already several generations old. There used to be very
little noticeable final loss of quality as long as no compression was used
until the programme reached the transmitter. Things may have changed, both
technical and programme quality are being reduced to cut costs.


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