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Allout is an outlining extension, for the Emacs programming editor, that I created and continue to develop. Allout has been included as part of the official Emacs distribution since 1993.
Allout is an extensive outline editing mode module that I developed and maintain for the Emacs programming-editor. Allout is distributed with Emacs, and as of (currently, upcoming) Emacs 24, a companion visual enhancement which I developed, allout-widgets, will also be distributed. Info about the mode and details for getting and installing the various components are below.
I first publicly released allout in 1991 (via Usenet). It has been included with the official GNU Emacs distribution since 1993. In 2008 I got direct committer access to maintain allout in the GNU repository. As of Feb, 2011, I added allout-widgets to the Emacs source code trunk, bringing the distribution up-to-date with the version of allout that I use daily. Hence the GNU repository is the place to go for the latest allout version - see the next topic, Getting The Latest Versions, and the emacs wiki Emacs Development Sources page for general info about using the repository. See further below for package background and activation info.
If you're comfortable situating emacs lisp files, you can get the most current allout.el and allout-widgets.el (plus incidentals) from the emacs source code repository trunk. See Activation, below, for activation instructions.
Allout addon which visually highlights outline structure. It requires that the allout-widgets icon directories are findable from your emacs load path or icon image path - their typical location is the emacs etc/images/icons directory.
Emacs is a free, extremely capable text editor, used principally by programmers [love_hate]. One outstanding strength is its extreme extensibility and versatility - many people contribute, extending and polishing the functionality. Emacs was essentially the first free-software creation of Richard Stallman, who started and has been a primary driving force in the free and open-source software movement. I've created and developed a few extensions which are delivered with the editor, including particularly Allout mode for editing and navigating outlines. I use it extensively.
Allout is an emacs editor mode useful for navigating and editing hierarchically organized text outlines. It uses configurable conventions for delimiting topic items, so it can be used with text that has its own structuring constaints, like programming languages. Allout operates as a minor mode, as well, so it can be used in combination with other emacs modes.
By configuring the topic items to start with a particular programming language's line comments, allout can be used in combination with programming language modes to organize programming code as outlines. The allout (and allout-widgets) emacs lisp code are, themselves, examples of such structuring.
Allout provides structured outline editing, like coherent promotion and demotion of topics that affects contained topics accordingly, coherent cut and paste of topics (and offspring, accordingly) across outline depths, automatic item numbering, and much more.
Allout also provides for Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG, GPG) topic encryption, enabling numerous distinct (symmetric and/or key-pair) encrypted entries within a single file. It's very handy for securely keeping track of passwords, accounts, and other sensitive information within outline-organized text files.
Easy rendering of exposed outline sections into simple textual outline styles, including numbered outlines, latex formatting, white-space indented, etc.
Careful attention to whitespace -- enabling blank lines between items and maintenance of hanging indentation (in paragraph auto-fill and across topic promotion and demotion) of topic bodies consistent with indentation of their topic header.
and look for Allout Auto Activation, and similarly for Allout Widgets Auto Activation in the allout-widgets subgroup.
There is an Emacs Wiki page on allout, including some background info, links to this page, contributed guidance, and so forth.
[love_hate] ... and emacs is cherished by some, including me, except on those rare days that it's driving me crazy. fortunately, those days are increasingly rare, at least in part because the system has matured and its rough edges refined.
Using allout is like putting on glasses - I've been able to improve and clarify code in every file in which I've used it. Sure, any outline mode could help with that, but they all have arcane or busy navigation & show/hide commands. The genius of allout's hot-spot navigation makes it all as easy as putting on a pair of glasses. Hmm... that sounds like promotional copy - feel free to use it if it answers a need :-) Bill W.
i've uploaded a new allout version which includes, among other things, a new custom configuration variable, `allout-inhibit-auto-fill'. setting this will turn off auto-fill in the buffer where you set it (if you use 'Esc-x set-variable' or 'Esc-: (setq ...'), or in all allout buffers if you customize the setting (eg, 'customize-variable').
This new version is also has a bunch of other fixes - see the link to the code, above, and [no longer present - see the respository source change log, instead] AlloutNEWS and AlloutChangeLog for details about the changes.
i have no way to reply to you, since i don't have your full name or email address - if you visit again and find this response, please let me know whether or not the change does what you need. enjoy!
one specific thing that's done more nicely with the new mechanism is auto-fill provisions, so that auto-fill-mode is not activated if it wasn't already active. turning on auto-fill along the way, however, continues to provide auto-indentation that respects topic headlines, if allout customization settings are configured for that.
there are also now some unit tests, specifically for the modal-settings resumptions code. developers can select having the unit tests run automatically on module load by customizing allout-run-unit-tests-after-load.
i've uploaded the new version of the code, along with a new NEWS and ChangeLog files.
Specifically: It now understands about "*" in comment-start, and it now writes comment-end after a line.
< (setq outline-regexp (concat "\("
> (setq outline-regexp (concat "\(\"
Sorry about that, couldn't be helped.
There's a new emacs package in town: linkd, see http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/Linkd.html . What's the relationship between these two packages? Can one use both of them simultaneously?
just took a look at linkd, and it seems like the linking stuff should work with allout, but use of the linkd block features may be problematic in allout, because there's no structural coordination between the two modes. that is, linkd blocks are created without regard to allout topic boundaries or containment structure. i don't think linkd was created specifically with allout in mind, and i didn't know about linkd until your mention of it.
Currently I'm waiting for assignment papers for GNU Emacs, so if you want I can provide a patch soon.
Subject: Add real keymap for hotspots?
Is there any chance of replacing the hotspot key mapping logic with a real keymap? I would have liked to be able to define other hotspot keys - specifically, I wanted to add "@" to work as "C-c @". But without a keymap to define a key into, there was no reasonable way to do it. If I submitted a patch replacing that logic with a keymap, would there be any interest in it?
the addon's enhancements include graphical rendering of the outline structure, use of keymaps for the various outine parts with (as yet, mostly unused) mouse bindings, and undo that applies to structure exposure changes as well as edits. (the latter is necessary so that edit changes are visible as they're undone - settling a problem with regular allout.) there may be other features i'm forgetting, and in not too long i hope to get to dealing with multiply located outline items, to deal with things like layered topic versioning, alternately organized views of collections of hierarchies, and other database-y uses of outlines.
though there's still a ways to go to get it where i want, it's a pretty striking improvement on allout as it currently stands, if only for the graphical outline structure. though it doesn't yet surface some existing allout features - notably, distinctive bullets are currently hidden - i've been using it for almost all of my outlining for many months now, and wouldn't do without it.
allout-widget sounds fascinating. Tantalizing might be a better word, actually.
I was about to start coding smarter links as an add-on to allout, a "smarter C-c @", so to speak. The docs of allout-widget say "provides for situating and otherwise cross referencing items within and across outlines". But I don't see code for that yet.
Now I'm wondering whether I should go ahead and write it, or wait, or try to co-ordinate with you.
Have you considered what should happen if target files are renamed?
tantalyzing for me, too. i'm only very slowing getting to the meat of what really interests me here.
> and across outlines". But I don't see code for that yet.
> try to co-ordinate with you.
> Have you considered what should happen if target files are renamed?
i'm glad to hear of your interest!
i've uploaded a new version of allout-widgets.el which may be interesting to some allout users out there. there's still some missing allout features, notably, distinctive bullets are hidden - not removed from the text, just not yet surfaced to view. some fixes depend on a new version of allout.el i've also uploaded. give it a whirl, if you're interested, let me know if you encounter problems - i may have some time to polish things.
for any of you interested in allout widgets, i botched the version of allout-widgets.el that i uploaded previously. i just uploaded a new version that rectifies the mistake. unpack it in a directory on your emacs load-path, byte-compile (optional, but useful for large outlines) and load allout-widgets in your init somewhere.
I like the item settings. I'm more excited about them than I am about widgets.
I had written a little code towards a similar idea. I had put the values in an s-exp immediately following the bullet. But I like your design better. It's more consonant with the text nature of these sort of files.
As the code stands, I can't really experiment because allout-get-item-widget just returns nil and the other interesting functions all want a widget as an argument. The problem may lie in how I invoked it, but I tried both allout-widgets-mode and allout-mode and then allout-widgetize-buffer.
I see there is code to read them in allout-assimilate-body-settings, but it assumes that widgets are set up and working. That makes it difficult for me to use it right now.
So if you don't mind, I'd like to send you changes I've written. It splits the non-widget code out of allout-assimilate-body-settings. I created some test example files and some tests - seems like continued lines and null settings are not working yet, so that might be handy.
One thing I've found helpful in writing tests for allout is to use outline-flatten-exposed-to-buffer to test that exposure is done right. I use this in conjunction with my mockbuf.el and a test-helper function I can send you.
When i want to test folding I make two example files, "EXAMPLE" and "EXAMPLE-folded". "EXAMPLE" is text in the configuration of interest, with "interesting" points marked by arbitrary unique strings. "EXAMPLE-folded" is the same thing minus any text that should be invisible.
PS: Glad you like regress.el I have an updated version of it available called rtest.
> I like the item settings. I'm more excited about them than I am about widgets.
> allout-widgets-mode and allout-mode and then allout-widgetize-buffer.
i'm not surprised that you're having some difficulty getting it going - you're probably the first person besides me to try it. in fact, there's a priming measure that i forgot to mention, in the docs and on this site. you need to do (allout-mode-widgets-init) after the allout-widgets code is loaded. i need to include a note about this step prominently in the file commentary, and in some main entry function.
also, allout-get-item-widget's behavior is a little odd. it only succeeds when point is located in the structure area of the item (before the body text - it's explained in the function's docstring). this can be beguiling.
one thing i want to do for testing is to have various outline static conditions, like text-property locations, recorded in emacs local file variables for comparison during tests. a regression testing harness should help make that fairly easy to automate.
Thanks for the directions on starting widgets. I'll definitely give it another whirl. Yes, when I did that, it worked, and graphics appeared in response to the outline.
...test that the result is the same as before? That's one way to test, and it's tempting if the code already works. For testing output that has the property that if it looks right it's right, that sort of testing is perfect. But tests can do more for you than that. I find that test-driven design does wonders for me, but one needs to design and write the testability functionality first.
> sort of testing is perfect. But tests can do more for you than that.
> design and write the testability functionality first.
none of that addresses a major concern, for which i had already started to create a little bit of testing infrastructure - settings. i'm thrilled that you're interested in that, to the point of sending some tests that look like they'll be quite useful, and maybe help get me kick started - yay!
and, i've uploaded another version of the allout-widgets with some more mistakes polished off - plus, some of those setup notes that were missing.
From: tom breton, Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:54:34 -0400 Subject: Let's move item settings to before item body?
Ken: I've been working with allout-item-settings a fair bit recently. I have some code that reads and writes them - not to and from widgets, though. I sent you an early version of it.
I've encountered what I think is a serious problem: When an item's body is split into subtopics, the settings end up in the last child, not in the node itself (as new parent). This happens because the settings follow the body.
I think the best solution is to move the settings to above items' bodies instead of below. I'd like to implement this.
Subject: Cycling like in org-mode??
Is it possible to have cycling akin to that in org-mode (Show-children->Show-subtree->Hide-tree)?? Currently allout-toggle-current-subtree-exposure only toggles the hidden state of a tree. Thanks.
> hidden state of a tree. Thanks.
"possible?": yes. "already implemented?": no. "hard to implement?": probably not. i like the idea, and will try to find time to implement it, but i already have a backlog of allout things pending (some pending release, like user-customizable keybindings), so i can't say when i'll get to it. i can encourage you to look into implementing it yourself - but if you're not familiar with emacs lisp coding, allout code is not the easiest place to start.


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NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – January 9, 2019
by Lyle Richardson | Jan 9, 2019 | News, NHL | 5 comments
Game recaps, injury updates, and more in today's NHL morning coffee headlines
NHL.COM: Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy turned in a 31-save shutout performance in a 4-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Brayden Point scored twice for the Lightning. Earlier in the day, Vasilevskiy was named as the replacement for Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price in the 2019 NHL All-Star Game. Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov picked up his 70th point of the season, becoming the fastest player to reach that number since Jaromir Jagr in 1999.
Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov is the fastest player to reach 70 points in 20 years. (Photo via NHL Images)
Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask picked up his 250th career NHL victory by blanking the Minnesota Wid 4-0. Teammates Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron each had a goal and two assists. Earlier in the day, the Wild recalled forward Joel Eriksson Ek.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Rask is now two wins away from tying Hall of Famer Tiny Thompson for the most career victories by a Bruins goaltender.
San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson extended his points streak to 14 games as his club thumped the Edmonton Oilers 7-2. Karlsson collected three assists while forwards Evander Kane and Joonas Donskoi each scored two goals.
Winnipeg Jets captain Blake Wheeler had a four-point night (one goal, three assists) to lead his club to a 7-4 victory over the Colorado Avalanche, who've dropped seven of their last eight games. Mark Scheifele and Jacob Trouba each had a goal and two assists for the Jets while Gabriel Landeskog scored twice for the Avalanche.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: The Avalanche hold the first wild-card berth in the Western Conference. If they don't snap out of their current funk soon, they'll tumble out of playoff contention.
T.J. Oshie scored twice, including his 200th career goal, as the Washington Capitals downed the Philadelphia Flyers 5-3. The Flyers tied an NHL single-season record by starting a seventh goalie as Mike McKenna made 21 saves in a losing cause.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: The Flyers' two-plus decades of failing to find or retain – hello there, Sergei Bobrovsky – a reliable starting goaltender has come home to roost in a big way this season. Addressing this issue must be the top priority of new general manager Chuck Fletcher.
Buffalo Sabres rookies C.J. Smith and Lawrence Pilut scored their first career NHL goals in a 5-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils. Sabres winger Jeff Skinner tallied his 29th goal of the season.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Skinner sits one goal behind Washington's Alex Ovechkin for the league goal-scoring lead. He needs nine more goals to break his career high of 37.
The Carolina Hurricanes held off the New York Islanders 4-3 to pick up their fifth straight win while snapping the Isles' six-game winning streak. Brock Nelson scored twice for the Islanders, who re-activated Valtteri Filppula off injured reserve and demoted winger Joshua Ho-Sang. With the loss, the Isles slipped one point out of the final wild-card berth in the Eastern Conference.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Ho-Sang continues to struggle to earn a full-time roster spot with the Islanders. I consider him a prime trade candidate, either at the deadline on Feb. 25 or during the offseason.
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray made 36 saves to pick up his eighth consecutive win as his club defeated the Florida Panthers 5-1. Sidney Crosby tallied his 20th of the season and Bryan Rust scored twice, including one of two shorthanded goals for the Penguins.
Antti Niemi kicked out 30 shots as the Montreal Canadiens edged the Detroit Red Wings 3-2, handing the latter their eighth loss in their last nine games. Tomas Tatar had two assists for the Canadiens while Andreas Athanasiou tallied twice for the Wings. Earlier in the day, Canadiens defenseman David Schlemko cleared waivers and was demoted to their AHL affiliate in Laval.
Tyler Seguin scored twice and set up another as the Dallas Stars downed the St. Louis Blues 3-1. Blues forward Alex Steen is expected to be sidelined for the remainder of January with an injured left shoulder.
The Vegas Golden Knights picked up their seventh straight victory by beating the New York Rangers 4-2. Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault snapped a seven-game goalless drought.
SPORTSNET: The Vancouver Canucks placed center Elias Pettersson (knee sprain) on injured reserve. He's expected to return in time for the All-Star Game in San Jose later this month.
ARIZONA SPORTS: Coyotes center Nick Schmaltz will miss the remainder of this season with a lower-body injury.
Juss76	on January 9, 2019 at 8:34 am
Hi Lyle,
The caption reads 70 goals not 70 points.
Nevertheless great job and my favorite hockey romours site 🙂
Shticky	on January 9, 2019 at 8:53 am
I was worried that Hitchcock's defensive system might make the Oilers boring to watch.
Scott	on January 9, 2019 at 5:27 pm
Lol this is amazing. What a train wreck my oilers are. I just feel bad for the young talent on the team that have no secondary scoring or veteran leadership.
FD	on January 9, 2019 at 11:35 am
They have got to be talking internally about exactly when to can Chia…got to be! Cant get rid of all the players…can you?
Deee	on January 9, 2019 at 12:51 pm
Montreal is paying big UFA bucks to have guys playing D in the AHL. It's kind of nice to see NHL scoring levels pick up so much but what is the most contributing factor? An all time talent high, goalie pads smaller, less physicality and fighting?
Matt Murray is on fire. I'm glad he took extra time to heal up completely and I'm glad Casey D lit a fire under him competitively. If the Penguins are scoring like they can and they get this level of goaltending in the playoffs then they are as strong of a contender as any other team. Losing Aston Reese and Hornqvist last night sucks though because it puts Derek Grant back in the lineup and he might just as well be an inflatable pool toy because he has as much impact on the game.
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NextGen TV: 'This is Year One'
By Tom Butts
ARLINGTON, Va.—The standard has been approved, testing is ongoing and new TV sets with support for NextGen TV (aka ATSC 3.0) debuted at CES2020 earlier this month. Now comes the hard part—marketing it.
That was among the chief topics at SMPTE's NextGen TV Summit hosted by WETA last week. A standing-room-only crowd discussed the technology, marketing and business opportunities broadcasters could harness with the new over-the-air broadcasting standard. And one of the first steps is branding.
"We don't talk about ATSC 3.0 anymore," said Lynn Claudy, senior vice president of technology for NAB and chairman of the ATSC board of directors; "now we talk about NextGen TV."
KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES
ATSC President Madeleine Noland opened the SMPTE NextGen TV Summit.
In a quickly evolving mobile, digital world, broadcasters have to assert themselves once again if consumers are to embrace the new standard, Claudy added.
"There's a lot of competition and disruption; you have to 'keep up with the Joneses' in digital media," Claudy said. Referring to the IP component with NextGen TV that allows broadcasters to provide OTT-type services, Claudy said, "We have to be seamlessly integrated into existing online broadband ecosystem in a meaningful way."
With increased demand on spectrum, "the pressure is on broadcasters to be more efficient," Claudy added. "You've got to do more with less."
Claudy's opening comments were echoed by ATSC President Madeleine Noland.
"The cellular industry is ravenous for spectrum," she said. "And the way to defend your spectrum is to use it well. And I think the ATSC 3.0 standard is going to help broadcasters make their stake in the ground very strongly with, 'hey, our spectrum is being used extremely wisely for the betterment of the people and the economy.'"
One of the most significant differences between ATSC 1.0 and 3.0 is the latter standard's emphasis on mobility, which was driven home by Mark Aitken, senior vice president of technology for Sinclair.
"[With ATSC 1.0], we lost consumers because we had an opportunity to be the mobile leader and we didn't choose that path," Aitken said. "And if we forget that this time around, we might as well put the gun to our head right now."
In 2017, Sinclair offered to give away 1 million NextGen TV tuners to any cellphone makers willing to add the capability to their devices. While there have not been reportedly any takers, Sinclair has showcased a NextGen TV chip it has developed in conjunction with Saankhya Labs, VeriSilicon and Samsung Foundry, and Aitken hinted that there will be new developments to see at the NAB Show in April.
"Don't be surprised if you see a smartphone with a NextGen TV chipset at NAB," Aitken predicted.
SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS
Broadcasters are currently petitioning the FCC to revise the commission's standards to allow the increased use of multiple transmitter deployments to make NextGen TV signals cut down on multipath, making the broadcast signal more robust in the mobile environment. These "single frequency networks" could be the key to consumer adoption, according to attendees.
"SFNs let you extend your coverage into shadow areas," Noland said, adding that an SFN in San Francisco, for example, could increase audience reach up to 40%.
SFNs also represent an opportunity for broadcasters in one market to cooperate on deploying and enhancing NextGen TV coverage, according to Jeff Andrew of Osborn Engineering.
"We believe that SFNs should be co-located—all the stations in one particular market should all be on the same SFN sites, sharing the same infrastructure," Andrew said. "Pick your channel assignments that support SFN deployment."
NextGen TV also allows for enhanced graphics and geo-targeted emergency alerts through its AWARN platform. With broadcasters often serving as the primary source of information, this could enhance even more broadcasters' roles during emergencies.
"Wireless companies are not overly eager about wireless alerts," Noland said. "They don't want to accept responsibility for the message that goes out. The broadcast community cares about such messages and enhances such messages. Broadcasters are content creators, not just content distributors, which differentiates us from the 5G community."
John McCoskey, CEO of SpectraRep, mentioned that the industry needs to create a consistent look when it comes to providing enhanced emergency alerts.
"We are looking at approaches that will provide a similar look across all channels," adding that "there is a fair amount of interest among broadcasters about how to tie emergency alerts into the news workflow."
NextGen TV is not being deployed in a vacuum however. 5G was described as "the elephant in the room" at the conference, but NextGen TV advocates emphasized the differences between a broadcast one-to-many service and cellular one-to-one.
Acknowledging the hype around the next-generation cellular standard now being rolled out in selected areas, Josh Arensberg with Verizon Media reminded attendees that "5G is an enabler, a last mile provider, just like ATSC 3.0," but that as content creators, broadcasters can better enable programming and information tailored to the benefits provided by broadcast.
"Without content and people creating experiences, there's nothing," he said. But because higher resolution content comes with a bigger data appetite, "you can see a $500 bill within minutes with up to 10 Gbps downloads [in 5G]," adding that when it comes to efficiency in a mobile device, when compared to "cost per bit," 5G is up to "90% less efficient."
"[NextGen TV] can contribute to a very efficient battery life," Arensberg added.
CONTENT IS NO LONGER 'KING'
Mark Fratrik
When it comes to business opportunities for NextGen TV, Mark Fratrik, senior economist with BIA took issue with the traditional "content is king" mantra.
"Platforms and devices drive the business models more than the content," he said. "It's hard to think that content is king; Roku, for example doesn't create content, but Wall Street loves them. For incremental growth, it's platforms and devices that drive the growth today."
Fratrik and his colleague Rick Ducey unveiled the results of their study that estimates that broadcasters could grow revenue 50% over the next 10 years as they deploy ATSC 3.0. Nevertheless, the ATSC 1.0 signal will continue to be the main source of revenue over the next decade, they said.
"Even with the new capabilities NextGen TV provides, traditional linear TV advertising and retransmission will continue to account for the lion's share of revenues throughout the 2020s," Fratrik said.
A CLEAR MESSAGE
NAB VP Technology Education and Outreach Skip Pizzi moderated a panel that included Sasha Javid, COO, The Spectrum Co. Stacey Decker, CTO, Public Media Group and Michael Bouchard, VP Technology Strategy, ONE Media / Sinclair
With deployments under way and sets scheduled to hit retail by the 2020 holiday shopping season, marketing NextGen TV will probably be the biggest challenge for broadcasters in 2020. Skip Pizzi, vice president of technology education and outreach for NAB, advised caution when promoting a product and service that can't be accessed by consumers yet.
"You don't want to push too hard on the consumer side if there isn't yet a product that they can use," he said. "You have to be careful and clear on the messaging."
For those consumers who have heard about NextGen TV, the main takeaway has been that it will allow for 4K resolution and enhanced audio. And for South Korea, which has gotten a headstart on deploying ATSC 3.0, 4K has been described as the "killer app."
That country in fact, is already planning on shutting down ATSC 1.0 before the end of the decade according to Claudy. "They have already planned their shutoff of ATSC 1.0 in 2027," he said. "All HD content will be gone in favor of 4K by then." But he also reminded attendees that that country's transition to ATSC 3.0 was mandated by the government. "Korean broadcasters also got more spectrum for the transition," Claudy said.
In the early stages of the deployment in the U.S., Claudy believes broadcasters will opt for 1080p resolution with HDR and HFR (in certain situations) and just offer 4K on "special occasions." But by combining over-the-air broadcasting with IP, the capabilities are so much more than that, according to Stacey Decker, CTO of Public Media Group, who reminded attendees that it's not just NextGen TV, but other advances such as the cloud, AI and software-defined networking that is revolutionizing broadcasting.
"We're at a unique time in our history with regard to technology disruption," he said. "We now have the opportunity to take the infrastructure we've all known for years and deploy these things on top of it and make it powerful."
For a comprehensive source of TV Technology's NextGen TV coverage, see our NextGen TV silo.
Tom Butts
Tom has covered the broadcast technology market for the past 25 years, including three years handling member communications for the National Association of Broadcasters followed by a year as editor of Video Technology News and DTV Business executive newsletters for Phillips Publishing. In 1999 he launched digitalbroadcasting.com for internet B2B portal Verticalnet. He is also a charter member of the CTA's Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. Since 2001, he has been editor-in-chief of TV Tech (www.tvtech.com), the leading source of news and information on broadcast and related media technology and is a frequent contributor and moderator to the brand's Tech Leadership events.
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