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Bailouts and handoutsI'm typing with clinched teeth this morning as the news reports continue nonstop about the automotive industry's demand that taxpayers bail out its poorly... |
I hate to be the Grinch
Having spent the bulk of a career on the equipment supply side of the broadcast industry, I have been through a number of business cycles. One lesson...
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ATSC standards Dear editor: Regarding the September Transition to Digital column, DTV multichannel transmission, the master guide table (MGT) and the...
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Over the rainbow, there's interferenceYou may have read recently about the debate in the United States regarding white space in the RF spectrum. Although the debate is based on the recent... |
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Join the technology treadmillIn the last few months, the European Parliament has been debating a common approach to reaping the benefits of an analog switchoff (ASO), otherwise known... |
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Answer the phone!What will you be doing on the morning of Feb. 17, 2009? I'm guessing a lot of Broadcast Engineering readers will be answering viewer telephone calls.... |
What's in your TS?
For years, the mainstay tools of television engineers in stations and facilities all around the country have been the trusty waveform monitor and vectorscope....
Feedback, November 2008
Flying the not-so-friendly skies In response to your October editorial, IBC was great, minus the travel, you hit it right on the mark. I have been flying...
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Are 3-D and 3Gb/s the future of TV?Just back from IBC, I was analyzing the show. There is always a theme that stands out. In recent years there has been a buzz around mobile and IPTV. As... |
IBC was great, minus the travel
After enduring a 22-hour, door-to-door travel time getting home from IBC, I'm ready to endorse children-free airplanes. I was unfortunate enough to encounter...
Feedback, October 2008
Recycling Dear editor: Your column in the September issue really hit home. I've been having some hardware issues, and I wanted to do just what that guy...
Pandora's box
Over the past century, broadcasting first radio then TV transformed the media landscape, providing what many consider to be the most efficient means by...
Content is king
Put the financial geniuses in charge of the asylum, and they will invariably come up with the worst of ideas that favor short-term, bottom-line results....
Active format descriptor
Are you ready for active format descriptor (AFD)? Or maybe you're already sending it with your content. You should be. AFD codes will play a significantly...
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RecyclingI recently spent an entire day cleaning my basement. One result was a small mountain of old computers and electronics to be trashed. My first thought... |
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Battery-powered digital TVs Dear editor: I've got a few comments on your July issue. Regarding your editorial, A DTV Service Pack, I think the biggest...
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Count those pixelsFollowing the recent launch of a 3G phone, some critics derided the included camera as being only 2 megapixels. Now this happens to be the same as a 1920... |
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Transition from monochrome to NTSC transmission Dear editor: I just read the interview with Tim Carroll of Linear Acoustic in the July 8 edition of the...
Being there
In 1932, David Sarnoff, then the president of RCA, wrote an article titled Where Television Stands Today for the April issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions....
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Comfort food, comfort technologyWhat's your favorite comfort food? For a Midwesterner, it might be chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes. For a Bostonian, comfort food might be clam... |
