| Astute sailors know the optimal time to catch the tidal fl ood toward the harbor. If it is missed, a ship may be caught in a storm or stranded at sea. An able captain and crew never pass up favorable currents. Today there is a different tidal fl ood that many captains of ship are seeking to ride to safe harbor. What is it? It is the tidal swell of information technology (IT) 1 that is being leveraged to create compelling video systems 2 and fi le based — ” tapeless” — workfl ows for broadcasters and other professional operations. In the big picture, we are at the emergent stages of video systems designed from hybrid combinations of IT standard platforms (storage, servers, routers, networks, fi rewalls, middleware, software platforms, Internet, Web services, archives, etc.) and traditional A/V methods and technology. |