broadcast_techie Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 I'm currently collecting together documents (generally PDF's) of technical specs to do with the broadcast industry for the college wiki. does anyone have or know where I can find such documents, ie dmx512, firewire and the such. Thanks in advance Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritch Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 Sounds like the sort of thing the IEEE would be able to help on for a lot of them. Don't know what you'll manage to get for free, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcast_techie Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Yeah, I've looked, briefly, at their site. Understandably they want to make money to cover the costs of writing the documents, and I want to distribute them freely amongst me fellow students. Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 I think they might not think that is a good idea - you will find that you can't do this, even for 'educational' reasons - it's been covered a few times, but private, personal use is fine in most cases, but youy can't share, or make it available without the owners permission, and with the IEEE, as you have found, they charge real money for detailed info - they would certainly be pretty miffed if anyone started to give away their product! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcast_techie Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Was feeling this was the case. I fully appreciate copyright and do my best to avoid breaking it. Thing is what I want to do is potentially going to benefit people like the IEEE in the future... but that is the 'life is fully of green hills and fluffy clouds where everyone is nice' part of me. The course I'm on is geared towards technology and future proofing us, and one thing would be to be aware of standards in detail - I realised this during a lecture where BS90309 was talked about (ie it exists) and wanted to know more... Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben... Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Most modern specs for broadcasting seem to reside with the ITU and SMPTE and are of the expensive per-copy sort. That said, the specs are fairly heavy going for the non-specialist reader so, unless you're looking to actually build compliant devices, you might be better off with higher level overviews. Firewire itself is Apple's name for IEE1394, which should tell you where the standards for that originate There's a trade association on the web here, which has the index to their various specs here (and the heavy-going nature of that index is a hint about why standards documents aren't what you'd call light reading.) DMX is managed by USITT, and is another pay-per-copy standard. There are probably bootleg PDFs knocking around out there, but even if you get hold of them I wouldn't put them on your wiki if I was you :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcast_techie Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 Yeah, I think I'm going to have to give up. Personally I'm not put off by the potential heavy nature of these docs, but common sense is telling me the copyright problems will be to much hassle. Will refer people to places like the BR Wiki... Thanks for your help and advice. When I have some money to spend I may invest... Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itinerant baker Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Rather than doing a Wiki of the actual standards (and falling foul of the copyright issues that'll involve) you could do a Wiki of links to standards that are already (legally) published on the web, perhaps with an overview or explanation written by yourself and other wikkers (strictly within the copyright laws, that is.) This might make a useful central reference point that people can start exploring from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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