Author Archives: Brandon McKenzie

Cablecast 4.7.6 Beta

Hey everybody! We are starting a beta test of Cablecast 4.7.6.  The latest incarnation of cablecast brings several fixes the the table, and a cool new feature as well. For the SX Servers, Cablecast will verify the playability of all of the scheduled files when autopilot is sent.  We also verify them when you load [...]
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Computer++

Recently our offices have seen an infusion of new computers.  The cool computer to have these days seems to be the 8-core Mac Pro. I took a decidedly different route to get to computer bliss as my recent post describes.  Today, I am proud to announce that the next step in my master plan is [...]
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Computer Bliss

It is definitely a nerdy thing to make a blog post about your new computer.  That being said, let me tell you about mine. For the last few years I have been using an old, out-dated, poorly maintained machine for my day to day work.  It was JJ’s computer for a while, then he got [...]
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About Me

I got my start in Access TV in 1997, when I started volunteering for Tom Ringdal over at Bloomington Educational Cable Television.  I started running cameras for the local high school Football and Hockey games, concerts and school board meetings.  Over time, I developed and interest in engineering, and was eventually hired as a part [...]
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Cablecast 4.6.4 Beta

It has been a busy few months since the ACM national show, we have released Cablecast 4.7, the SX servers, and have some very cool stuff coming down the pike. One of those things that I have been working on is Cablecast 4.6.4.  We have made some big changes to the way that VOD servers [...]
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