Chapter 6
Section Editors: Glenn Reitmeier
The essential step of how to get the content to the viewer is the focus of this section. Distribution systems have evolved since the earliest days of broadcast television, and they have historically imposed many system parameters and constraints that ripple upstream to content creation systems. In order to explain these technical limitations and constraints and their origins, we will briefly discuss the history and evolution of Broadcast Networks and Television Stations, Cable Television, Satellite Television, Internet Video, Pre-Recorded Media (DVD/Blu-ray discs), and Digital Cinema and then describe the architecture typical to each of these systems today. Our task is complicated ...
Get The Media Workflow Puzzle now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
