Ever get curious about the systems used by the staff of The Daily Show to wrangle all those video clips from seemingly every existent news-and-affairs show in the U.S.? No fancy in-house network, PC-based DVR or video database for Comedy Central — instead, the team uses 15 rack-mounted TiVos, dubbing clips to Betacam tape when they’re needed for air.
Scroll down to the fifth comment on this entry from PVRblog for an ex-staffer’s account of the show’s clip-handling regimen.
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