Reader Feedback: The red phenomenon
One reader questions Author Michael Robin about the red phenomenon...
Whose spectrum is it anyway?
The TV industry has to understand that it doesn’t own its own spectrum...
I won't if you don't
Recently, there have been efforts to get broadcasters to cooperate in delivering content to viewers in new ways, ones that would let them participate in the revenue....
Won't get fooled again?
By the time The Telecommunications Act of 2006 is finalized ... you will need a scorecard to identify key players...
Confusing the customer
It seems hard to believe, but some of the retail speak is so “cunning” (in “Much Ado About Nothing” terms) that even I don’t understand it...
Reader Feedback
I work as an engineer at Sun Television Network in India. For post-production, we are using an AVID NLE and Symphony. We were concerned...
Fixing it in post
Once uttered by a director or producer during a shoot, the problem, however big, goes away for the production crew and falls smack into the lap of the often-forgotten editing few...
We can fix it in post
The editor says that it's up to engineers to help disseminate the message that the standards of technical quality must be kept up...
Mr. Copp's neighborhood
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Good afternoon, children. Welcome to my neighborhood, where all TV broadcasts...
Greetings from your new editor
We are starting this new year with a new editor for the world edition of Broadcast Engineering magazine. Let me take this opportunity to introduce myself....
Not all of us are adult enough
Reality TV is about something other than just reality. Once you've made people eat squirming bugs or jump between airplanes, and stripped them of all...
Reader Feedback
Selected file-sharing Brad, Our post-production facility has many networked computer-based editing and media management systems. In the administration...
The sense of Congress
Just months after the FCC set the DTV transition schedule, those sensible folks in Congress “fixed” it...
a la carte gets negative response
According to the Bureau, an à la carte model would not lower subscription costs or promote viewer choice...
Do it for the children
The FCC is deciding how much kiddy-focused programming you have to broadcast to keep your license...
Attend school - get cool stuff.
I want to go back to school. Why would I want to return to the classroom? I've already got a BA and MA degree. Some would say I have a PhD in BS, but...
Enter the Twilight Zone - Reader Feedback
Enter the Twilight Zone in this month's Reader Feedback column...
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In-car TVs are the latest innovation to emerge from automated technology. Find out why the editor thinks this new technology may drive people crazy...
The cost of standards
Some international standards are neither international nor standard...
Hollywood is the puppet master
If Hollywood has its way, broadcasters will become the modern equivalent of the bucket brigade. ...
Multicasting: Doom and gloom on the airwaves
Will multicasting save terrestrial TV? Here’s one man’s dire prediction....
Hollywood obsoletes six million HDTV sets
With Hollywood's and the FCC's help, everything you see on your new HDTV set may be fuzzy...
What ever happened to free TV?
There have been a series of promotional announcements on the radio lately they sound more like ads to me talking about the advantages of free radio. The...
Playing chicken with your viewers
It was tempting to title this column I want my MTV or some variant thereof. But the truth is, I don't want any MTV or MTV2 or even MTV Espanol. I do,...
Reader Feedback - The tables have turned
One reader discusses the value of free HD service and another says consumer devices software and media will overrun the existing broadcast standards in the future. ...
