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The winners in the toughest ratings fight have one thing in common: Thomson Grass Valley™ multiformat and HD digital news production systems.

They're installed at leading station groups in the top five U.S. markets -- and at leading news outlets worldwide. With a complete workflow that spans acquisition, production and playout, it's clear that when you're watching the news, you're watching Grass Valley technology at work.

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Considering Compression

November 27, 2007

With a wide choice of compression schemes available, and even more on the horizon, we could be looking at a future that is not so much Variable Bit-Rate as Very Baskin-Robbins.

Mustang Chipset

Powerful Video Compression Engine for Professional HD Application

by Jean Pierre Henot, June 19, 2007

Since the launch of color TV in the 1960s, high-definition (HD) television has been one of the industry’s greatest advances.

HD News: Don’t Fear the File!

by Ed Casaccia, November 15, 2006

Director of Product Management and Marketing, Digital News Production, Grass Valley

The era of HD news is upon us, later than the earliest visionaries may have forecast, but also more suddenly than many expected. Nine years and two months after the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 defined the digital television landscape for the U.S., and four years and a month after the originally mandated date for auction of analog channels, HD news has in the past few months become a key marketing differentiator for local news offerings in large U.S. television markets.

Thomson Grass Valley Ignite Multicast Market Opportunity: Technology and System for Live Production & Business Case

September 18, 2006

Digital Television (DTV) permits broadcasters to deliver more channels of programming over their allotted digital spectrum, allowing local stations to send multiple simultaneous streams otherwise known as "multicasting". Because of network affiliations, broadcasters are limited in the amount of local broadcasting time available over their traditional channel. Therefore, digital multicasting allows broadcasters to expand local broadcast programming significantly.

Infinity - Supporting the User's Choice of Workflow

August 11, 2006

ENG has now been a practical reality for 25 years or more. When first introduced it replaced film-based acquisition, which was a real limitation for news and fast-paced production, demanding a lengthy lab process before the content could be viewed. However, the demand for speed never ceases, and today we find even real-time ingest from videotapes into the post-production workflow a major bottleneck.