The SVC Blogcast

SVC Podcast Show 18, Part 1

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In this edition, SVC contributing editor Bennett Liles talks with John Tiner, senior systems and design engineer with the University of Maine System. They discuss the upgrade of the university’s statewide distance learning network to an all-IP system using Haivision Barracuda encoders, a Haivision Videofurnace advanced server base system with Instream desktop player, and Stingray set-top boxes. Tiner provides details on how the production is done in the distance learning classrooms including greenscreen keying. Links of interest:

• Haivision Barracuda H.264 encoders used for sending program A/V to the network
• Sony BRC-300 PTZ cameras used in the originating studios
• The KeyWest Technology BVTBC10 10-bit TBC Synchronizer
• Crown CM-30 hanging microphones used in the distance learning studios