The International Broadcasters Tape Numbering (IBTN) Scheme

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 105, No. 5, pp. 283–285
Abstract: Broadcasting throughout the world relies increasingly on the exchange of videotape programming, both in post-production and in sales distribution. All but the smallest facilities number their videotapes to ensure reliable tape location and, increasingly, tape movements are tracked using bar codes and bar code readers. Until now, there has been no large-scale attempt at standardization, and massive waste occurs in relabeling and rekeying program and technical details into successive computer systems. The IBTN videotape numbering scheme, developed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), offers production houses the facility of generating numbers and bar codes that are unique on an international basis and which can be read by all other users around the world. To make it easy for companies to adopt the scheme, IBTN builds on a flexible “core” number, which is intended to accommodate all existing user numbering schemes. Building on the foundation of the IBTN number, it is proposed to define a data format to permit the interchange of a wide range of program and recording details.
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/J04625
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J04625
Author(s): Peter MarshallChannel 4 Television, London, SW1P 2TX, U.K.
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Peter Marshall is assistant chief engineer, Channel 4 Television in London. His career spans 30 years, starting with the BBC before moving to the Independent Broadcasting Authority, where he held a variety of posts concerned with the setting and administration of codes of technical practice for commercial television companies in the U.K. Since moving to Channel 4 in 1988, Marshall has been responsible for station operations and has taken a special involvement in liaison with program makers on technical developments including component digital working and widescreen. He chairs the EBU task force on international broadcast videotape numbering, which work he describes in this paper.
Copyright: © 1996 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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