I hope it's something they are getting rid of and not bringing in.

That's just the way the industry works. When you've got 10-15 minutes to flip a stage between bands or a whole touring rig to strike in a matter of hours, you can't afford to have someone lagging behind.

No. You really don't. Mine is not attached to a facebook account.

In the Audio/Lighting/Video world, if you don't do this, you get thrown out. Seriously. I've had day-labor fired on the spot if I see them wrap a cable around their elbow.

You don't need a Facebook account to use spotify.

Really? Did you miss the part where you assumed I was wasting working time, when I was actually on break? Yeah. Good work.

One can only assume he's never worked a real job.

It's called a "Lunch Break". Maybe you've heard of it.

And it's all about the quality to me. Even in my teenagerdom, I might have been convinced to pay for a subscription, if anything decent had existed. Spotify Premium (even more so with the new "Extreme" quality option) is an awesome product.

Yeah, no joke. That headline photo is totally NSFW. Not cool, Giz.

With the advent of Spotify, Netflix, and Hulu, I really no longer feel the need to pirate as I used to, back in the day.

Avid was the standard. FCP became the standard. Now, FCPX (stupid, useless, piece of shit) has caused a rift; Some major houses are moving to Premiere, since other standard programs like Photoshop and After Effects are easy to integrate. Other major houses are moving back to Avid to integrate ProTools rigs.

We all use continuously updating "Live Rundowns" that live on a piece of software we all have and it also has an iPad access page, but we have to keep hard copy backups, especially for the talent (in case they are walking around the studio and aren't near a prompter).

I work at The Weather Channel, and we print show rundowns like crazy. The talent get hard copies of all of the prompter scripts and rundowns, and everyone in the control room gets a least one hard copy of the run down. All of that ends up being 200-250 pages per show averaging 8 shows a day during the week and 4 a day…

I hope that's what he meant.

Even if it isn't to tape, they are shooting in HD. When you have goodness knows how many hours of HD footage, transferring it back and forth can get really annoying and time consuming.

meeksdigital, if you take one second to actually pay attention, and read the other comments; there are at least 6 other people that have already said this. (DUH) And none of them were total assholes about it.

I work for The Weather Channel and the majority of the tower cams we use are all connected to us via Slingbox HD's. All NBC local affiliates have tower cams in their city attached to a private Slingbox network so all other NBC Channels can access and use them.

JFGI.

Good work! That's an interesting result. I wonder if an accountant would do any better...