Splice Is In, Switch Is Out

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Splice Is In, Switch Is Out

Years after I saw the first Master Control program stream splicer at NAB years ago in the A.F. Associates booth comes this pearl of wisdom from John Luff in the January ’09 issue of Broadcast Engineering: “One might argue that a splicer is not a master control system, but to be perfectly honest, it isn’t far from one.”

Just think of how much better the picture quality would be if we used 2-pass MPEG-2 encoding on our primetime shows. (Or even better, how many more digital program streams we could stat-mux if our main program had a lower bitrate.)