Talk:Sony NEWS

SHould I add pictures of the RISC-based machine? I have two here and can take pictures of it apart. SupremeDalek (talk) 13:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It wouldn't hurt to have some pictures of a RISC motherboard, sure. I wouldn't take it any further apart than opening the case top to take a picture.  Which model(s) do you have?  Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 21:33, 22 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have the 3710 one whose pictures I added to the page (and to the commons). I actually have two: one I replaced the original hard drive, upped the memory, and installed netbsd on it and the other which I have not done anything to it. As soon as I have time, I will open the beast (which is one of my pet peeves about the machine: it was built like a VCR/DVD player/Appliance instead of a workstation. Even the power supply is completely exposed; I've been zapped twice by it) and take tons of pictures and put them in the commons. Later on we can decide which ones worth putting here.


 * I am thinking on passing one of them along, either through ebay or finding a nice home for it. I need to curb the herd. And, this is one of the reasons I want to make sure everything I can find about the machines are here. AFAIK, this is preserving history. SupremeDalek (talk) 15:31, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

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broadcast automation use
sony's broadcast division used the NEWS computers as the heart of their LMS broadcast playout systems, based on a large robotics cabinet holding several hundred cassettes (typically the betacam 1/2" format) & several VTRs. the ones I experienced in this context were the NEWS 1800 & 5000 variants, running software specific to the business of schedule fulfilment against a feed of station timecode. a bug meant that we had to stop using the machine if the timecode needed to be adjusted backwards (as during the autumn clock-change); we switched to UTC to avoid this. I don't know how to get this (OR) into the article, or if it belongs even, but I'd like it to be recorded somewhere. the NEWS was by far the most reliable broadcast automation I encountered, bested only by the simpler betacart, & making even today's cloud-based multi0-channel systems look flakey. I think there ought to be an article about tape-based broadcast automation (betacart, LMS, odetics, panasonic & ampex) but I'm not sure where to start.

duncanrmi (talk) 03:13, 7 May 2021 (UTC)