Video and Media Servers - Technology and Applications (Paperback)

Anyone with a technical understanding of video, analog or digital, will find answers here to many of the questions that surround the whys and hows of tapeless, digital disk and sever-based video recording. The switch in the direction of digital television broadcasting, the acceptance of compressed digital video and storage, video-on-demand, pay-per-view delivery and multichannel satellite are all elements in this universal shift towards servers for storage and forward delivery of video media.;The book will discuss operational and technical issues related to disk-based, digital recording and the implementation of video server and media server based technologies for broadcast and non-broadcast applications. It will include developmental and technical discussions of optical, magnetic and silicon based disk systems.;The material presented will include both surface level and in-depth discussion aimed at the users of the technology: the electronics technician, the maintenance engineer working in a video facility, and the technical manager whose job it is to recommend and advise upper management on current as well as future technological choices in advanced television. The applications portions will also be helpful to the operations technicians or managers already working in a broadcast facility with server systems, or one that is considering integrating video and media server technologies into the plant.