Karl Paulson. Anyone with a technical understanding of video, analog or digital, will find answers here to many of the questions that surround the whys and how's of tapeless, digital disk and server based video recording. This book discusses both operational and technical issues related to disk-based, digital recording and the implementation of video server and media server based technologies for broadcast and non-broadcast applications.

Contents: 1. Media and Video Server Technologies; Digital Disk Recorders; Non-Linear Editing; Bribre Channel -- High Speed Media Server Backbone & More; Firewire or IEEE 1394; Backup and Removable Media; Networking in the Media Server Environment; 2. Disk Drive Technologies; Magnetic Drive Evolution; RAID; SCSI; Serial Storage Architecture; 3. New Applications in Media Server Technologies.

• April 1998
• 416pp
• 6 x 9
• 45 B&W illustrations
• Paperback