Monday, July 27, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Syfy channel name change
I haven't been blogging lately, and a bunch of stuff went down. Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Walter Cronkite all died. Shelly Sindland filed a sex and age bias complaint vs. WTIC-61. And the Sci Fi Channel changed its name, to Syfy. I'll address only the latter this time: It's pretty dumb looking. Syfy? Why not SighFigh? Or SayeFaye? Or SFi? Or SkyFi? Or StyintheEye? Anything but Syfy!
Brooks and Co. in High-Def
WVIT-30 this week became the first local station to broadcast its news in high-definition.
Of course, that must have made the affable Gerry Brooks very nervous, as it would me.
But it's the future, and now WVIT can showcase local products in high-def, the station points out.
Oh, and the news will be served too, somehow.
What's interesting about the rebuild there in West Hartford is how they used parts of the old building (which was a dump by modern standards) and tried to make a "green" building.
Says a WVIT release, "The new Media Center features a state-of-the-art studio, with 1080i HD production, allowing greater flexibility in news presentation. The entire facility is wired for on-air locations, enabling camera set-ups throughout the building. In addition, the Media Center no longer uses videotape, enabling all video to be gathered, edited, and broadcast from a server-based system, resulting in the cleanest, most vivid video presentation possible across multiple media platforms."
Of course, that must have made the affable Gerry Brooks very nervous, as it would me.
But it's the future, and now WVIT can showcase local products in high-def, the station points out.
Oh, and the news will be served too, somehow.
What's interesting about the rebuild there in West Hartford is how they used parts of the old building (which was a dump by modern standards) and tried to make a "green" building.
Says a WVIT release, "The new Media Center features a state-of-the-art studio, with 1080i HD production, allowing greater flexibility in news presentation. The entire facility is wired for on-air locations, enabling camera set-ups throughout the building. In addition, the Media Center no longer uses videotape, enabling all video to be gathered, edited, and broadcast from a server-based system, resulting in the cleanest, most vivid video presentation possible across multiple media platforms."
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