As a broadcast engineer for the company who provides the technical facilities to ESPN/Turner for the broadcasts of NBA games, I can say this network is only used for the statistics data.
the live webstream is generated by an entirely separate entity who derives their video from our cameras, but as for their transmission, i believe they transfer from site to NBA.com offices via the house WAN (typically t3 trunks)..
networking in television production trucks, while rather basic, employs some pretty interesting technologies... the EVS machines (basically really advanced dvr's that allow for "live slowmo", and creation of clips from the incoming video signals instantaneously, for all those instant replays) transmit all audio/tvideo to a proprietary dataserver located inside the truck by use of a proprietary coaxial network (called sdti)
as for your hd broadcasts, those still go out the old fashioned way, via satellite...
and i gotta tell you.. if you own an hdtv, you're getting hosed by your service provider. it's crazy how bad the signal you get at home is in comparison to what gets beamed to/from that satellite.
In the record store i worked at we would fit about 7500 discs in two of these stacked on top of each other:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =7543505009&category=3299
(i'm not sure this is the exact model...)
we would buy cases of individual cd sleeves to keep our discs in:
http://www.shop4tech.com/item2161.html
number them sequentially with a sharpie at the top, one disc in each side of the sleeve and you could fit 7500 discs in a shelving system that's about 3 ft. wide and 18" deep... throw a label on the front of each drawer to say the number range, and keep a database of what is where. i think that's the smallest storage area you'll achieve in a very organized manner.
but as said above, you'll probably want an intern to do this for you.
-joe
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As a broadcast engineer for the company who provides the technical facilities to ESPN/Turner for the broadcasts of NBA games, I can say this network is only used for the statistics data.
the live webstream is generated by an entirely separate entity who derives their video from our cameras, but as for their transmission, i believe they transfer from site to NBA.com offices via the house WAN (typically t3 trunks)..
networking in television production trucks, while rather basic, employs some pretty interesting technologies... the EVS machines (basically really advanced dvr's that allow for "live slowmo", and creation of clips from the incoming video signals instantaneously, for all those instant replays) transmit all audio/tvideo to a proprietary dataserver located inside the truck by use of a proprietary coaxial network (called sdti)
as for your hd broadcasts, those still go out the old fashioned way, via satellite...
and i gotta tell you.. if you own an hdtv, you're getting hosed by your service provider. it's crazy how bad the signal you get at home is in comparison to what gets beamed to/from that satellite.
In the record store i worked at we would fit about 7500 discs in two of these stacked on top of each other: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =7543505009&category=3299
(i'm not sure this is the exact model...)
we would buy cases of individual cd sleeves to keep our discs in:
http://www.shop4tech.com/item2161.html
number them sequentially with a sharpie at the top, one disc in each side of the sleeve and you could fit 7500 discs in a shelving system that's about 3 ft. wide and 18" deep... throw a label on the front of each drawer to say the number range, and keep a database of what is where. i think that's the smallest storage area you'll achieve in a very organized manner.
but as said above, you'll probably want an intern to do this for you.
-joe