Engineering for creative people

摘要

'May you live in interesting times' is a traditional Chinese curse. We are certainly living in interesting times in the broadcast industry at the moment, but I have to say that I do not personally feel cursed - at least not that much. The nature of these interesting times is well understood. The digital delivery revolution means that where there were a handful of analogue channels there are now hundreds available to most viewers. Again, digital means that a lot of the engineering challenges in the delivery chain have gone away, although some new ones have appeared in their place, just to keep us on our toes.