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Could going digital be a snoozer?Pressure is building toward the Feb. 17, 2009, analog shutoff. TV set makers, broadcast associations, and cable and satellite vendors are all gearing... |
Ad spots in the DVR era
The networks are happy because recently completed upfront ad sales for the fall season reversed a downward trend that began two years ago. How did the...
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Marketing technologyNAB is over for another year, and it was a very buoyant show. The new layout certainly helped to avoid overcrowding in the South Halls, as folks were... |
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Choking off innovationNet neutrality. You've heard the term, but what exactly does it mean to broadcasters? The debate is focused on whether laws and regulation should dictate... |
More ground to cover
Another NAB convention is once again Las Vegas history. If you did not have a chance to attend and envelop yourself in the latest in industry technology...
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Clarifying Kell factor John Luff: In the December 2006 issue of Broadcast Engineering, you respond to a letter that raises a question about the relation...
Unconditional access
The control of intellectual property lies at the heart of the shift from an industrial-based to an information-based global society. Right now, a handful...
TV's doomsday nears
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates reported on the imminent doom of television because of Internet-distributed...
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Production quality standards are looseningTelevision viewers have more ways to view content than ever. It seems to me that the volume of content available is increasing at a much higher rate than... |
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On your mark, get set wait!You could hear the collective gasp from the entire television broadcast industry when Rep. John Dingell, D-MI, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce... |
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Body mass index Dear editor: Your December 2006 editorial introduced a term and a definition for BMI without mentioning that the abbreviation means body...
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HD: A branding vehicleConvergence can mean many things. In television, we usually think of convergence as broadcast, IT and telecoms coming together at the technology layer.... |
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Bigger is always betterA recent Best Buy Omnitel survey shows a growing demand by women for input and... |
An awakening
In the broadcast industry, ultraconservative companies are a dying breed....
Room for you?
In the television business, 2006 may well be remembered as the year of YouTube. Yet another in the long list of Internet phenomena, YouTube was founded...
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Can you see me now? Editor: Your October 2006 editorial brought to mind an incident from my days as chief at Channel 3, the ABC affiliate in Corpus Christi,...
Who's watching you?
Do you know who watches the programming delivered by your station? If you are reaching for the latest ratings book so you can cite the number of viewers...
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Poor driving standardsIn early January, Senator John Sununu (R-NH) announced he was writing legislation that would prohibit the FCC from imposing technology mandates on the... |
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How much does picture quality cost?At a recent event, I watched a demonstration of a new video delivery service. On a large flat screen, highly compressed video showed all the usual artifacts... |
