Reporting Live, from Almost Anywhere. / Susan E. Reed.
by Reed, Susan E; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 62Science. Publisher: New York Times, 2002ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Artificial satellites in telecommunication | Technological innovations | Television -- Transmitters and transmission | Television broadcasting of news | Video telephone | War correspondents | Afghanistan -- History -- Anti-terrorist operations (2001- ) | Afghanistan -- History -- Civil War (1989- )DDC classification: 050 Summary: "Nearly 40 years after it was touted as the telephone of tomorrow, the videophone is having a moment in the sun as the gadget of choice--or desperation--in television news reporting from remote locales like the Afghan war. But for all its utility in showing a correspondent on the front lines, the videophone did not show much action there....Because of its low transmission rate...the videophone is impractical for showing something as active as boys racing around with guns....Given the less-than-satisfying results in Afghanistan--with out-of-sync images evoking a 'Max Headroom' episode--the networks are scrambling to find new hardware and software so they will be better equipped to go into the next battle." (NEW YORK TIMES) The author presents TV networks' need to find better tools for journalists to use when attempting to get "fully edited videotaped reports on the air cheaply and quickly from remote places.".
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Reporting Live, from Almost Anywhere, Jan. 31, 2002; pp. D1+.
"Nearly 40 years after it was touted as the telephone of tomorrow, the videophone is having a moment in the sun as the gadget of choice--or desperation--in television news reporting from remote locales like the Afghan war. But for all its utility in showing a correspondent on the front lines, the videophone did not show much action there....Because of its low transmission rate...the videophone is impractical for showing something as active as boys racing around with guns....Given the less-than-satisfying results in Afghanistan--with out-of-sync images evoking a 'Max Headroom' episode--the networks are scrambling to find new hardware and software so they will be better equipped to go into the next battle." (NEW YORK TIMES) The author presents TV networks' need to find better tools for journalists to use when attempting to get "fully edited videotaped reports on the air cheaply and quickly from remote places.".
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