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What is Spectrum X?
THIS NEXT-GEN MEDIA SERVER PURPORTEDLY SUPPORTS SDI & IP OUTPUT, AND MAY OR MAY NOT BE UPGRADABLE TO UHD.
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Who is Allan Nicholson?
HE'S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS AN ENGLISH SOCCER HOOLIGAN WITH A FORMER TANDBERG ENGINEER.
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What is NASA TV?
WE'RE TAKING LIVE UHD TO NEW FRONTIERS WITH THIS SPACED-OUT AGENCY'S NEW VIDEO SERVICE.
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What is Integrated Receiver Decoder?
IRD
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What is Monterey Jack?
THIS CHEESE ORIGINATED IN NEARBY CARMEL VALLEY AND IS NAMED AFTER A LOCAL LAND SPECULATOR.
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What is Electra 9200?
UP TO 4 CHANNELS PER CHASSIS, INTEGRATED STATMUX, DUAL POWER SUPPLIES AND A WHOLE LOTTA SALES FOR THIS 1-RU APPLIANCE.
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Who is Asaf Matatyaou?
SHORT OF STATURE BUT NOT OF PRESENCE, NOTHING GETS PAST HIS TOWERING KNOWLEDGE OF THE CABLE EDGE BUSINESS.
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What is Google?
SMART ENOUGH TO BUILD A SELF-DRIVING CAR BUT NOT TO LAUNCH A VIDEO SERVICE WITHOUT HARMONIC.
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What is High-Efficiency Video Coding?
HEVC
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What are sea otters?
CUTE LITTLE CRITTERS THAT CAN BE SEEN IN MONTEREY BAY SNACKING ON SHELLFISH WHILE FLOATING ON THEIR BACK.
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What is NSG Exo?
YOU MIGHT FIND THIS COMPACT UNIT, USED FOR DELIVERING HIGH-SPEED DATA, VIDEO & VOICE OVER COAX, LOCKED IN A CABINET OR BASEMENT.
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Who is Niall McDonnell?
THE GRASS WASN'T GREENER FOR THIS BEAVERTON-BASED IRISHMAN WHO JOINED THE SPECTRUM TEAM IN 2013.
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What is CNN?
THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS TRUSTS US.
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What is Wide Color Gamut?
WCG
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What is Pebble Beach?
PLAYING A ROUND AT THIS NEARBY LINKS GOLF COURSE, HOME OF MULTIPLE U.S. OPENS, WILL SET YOU BACK OVER $500.
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What is WFS?
IT'S NOT RHOZET, BUT A WORKFLOW ENGINE THAT POWERS THE ENTIRE FILE-BASED TRANSCODING PROCESS.
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Who is Neil Brydon?
PHOTOGRAPHY MAY BE HIS PASSION, BUT VIDEO COMPRESSION IS HIS WIFE. WE MEAN "LIFE."
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What is Rogers Communications?
IT'S HERITAGE AS A VACUUM TUBE COMPANY GOES BACK TO 1925. THE BEHEMOTH IS A NOW A PARTNER OF THE NHL.
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What is Network Function Virtualization?
NFV
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Who is John Steinbeck?
HE LIKELY STANK OF SARDINES AFTER PENNING HIS 1945 NOVEL ABOUT THE LOCAL INDUSTRY, "CANNERY ROW."
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What is Polaris Live?
A FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE TOUCH PANEL THAT PUTS CONTROL OF SPECTRUM CHANNELPORT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.
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Who is Tom Lattie?
HE WOULD NO LONGER QUALIFY FOR THE MULTICHANNEL NEWS' "40 UNDER 40" SPECIAL EDITION, THOUGH HE DID MAKE THE CUT IN 2012.
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What is EchoStar?
THIS COMPANY'S CEO FAMOUSLY DESCRIBED HIS M&A APPROACH AS THE "SEINFELD" STRATEGY.
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What is Nothing?
VOS
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Who is Jimi Hendrix?
THIS ROCK LEGEND FAMOUSLY LIT HIS GUITAR ON FIRE AT THE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL IN 1967.
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What is June?
THE INXS HIT "NEW SENSATION" MAY HAVE BEEN PROPHETIC WHEN HARMONIC WAS FOUNDED IN THIS MONTH OF 1988.
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