A 'Flexible Framework'
01.05.2009
The work to develop a comprehensive standard for mobile and handheld services—known as "ATSC Mobile DTV"—has reached a milestone with publication of the A/153 Candidate Standard document set. More...

Mobile Handheld DTV Project Moves Forward
12.03.2008
ATSC-M/H is being developed to support a variety of services including free (advertiser-supported) television and interactive services delivered in real time, subscription-based TV, and file-based content download for playback at More...

New DRL Standard Completed
09.03.2008
The DRL channels permit a "feedback" or "return" link to be established from an ENG receive-only (ENG-RO) site to an originating TV pickup station (i.e., ENG truck). This link allows automatic transmitter power control by ENG More...

Broadband Video Headed for Shakedown
12.30.2008
Those numbers, say analysts, will likely make this holiday season unremittingly gloomy. But for providers of broadband video, the shockwaves will take their toll. More...

Google's New Platform May Upend iPhone
10.15.2008
The expected unveiling of a new generation of smartphones equipped with Google's Android software and linked to faster networks could herald a breathtaking sea change in our usage and definition of broadband. More...

Variables in the Digital Video Logjam
07.23.2008
If the evolution of broadband video content takes the path music did, then someday soon we will all be using the video equivalents of iPods and iTunes. More...

Syndicaster, YouNewsTV Offer Online Alternatives
12.03.2008
After countless exhortations to re-think "mass" media in a "class" media environment, broadcasters are finding their place in online video, and making money in the process. More...

Finicky Young Viewers, Funky Online Video Data
10.01.2008
In the National Retail Federation's annual survey of back-to-college spending, college students collectively shelled out more than $11 billion for electronics gear, compared to $7 billion for clothing. More...

What’s With Ultra-Wideband?
07.23.2008
The aesthetic appeal of wireless delivery is growing as families hang flat-panel displays on their walls and don’t want to see dangling wires and cables. More...

What I Know About the Great White Spaces
12.22.2008
Broadcasters are well aware that the spectrum of DTV transmitters extends outside of the allocated channel. They know this because the FCC has required that this out-of-channel emission be controlled with its RF mask More...

White Spaces: Myth or Reality?
11.18.2008
In this market, all vacant channels in the high VHF and UHF bands are also adjacent channels to one or two broadcast channels. So are adjacent channels really suitable for sharing? More...

Improving a Digital EAS With the New ATSC Signal
10.15.2008
What a DTV signal can do that an analog signal such as NTSC could not do is to awaken sleeping persons believed by the local authorities to be threatened. More...

Obama to Expand Internet Access
01.05.2009
Though his plate will be full on many fronts including the economy, two wars and health care, the president-elect has promised to bring quick and major change to American communications technology. More...

Computers, the Internet And the Economic Crisis
12.12.2008
When I went to college in the late 1960s, there were no mobile phones, personal computers or Internet. Though I made far less money in those days, I had more spending power than today. Most of the time, I actually felt wealthy. More...

Mobile Technology Collides With Policy
10.29.2008
One of the clear trends in this first decade of the 21st century is the rapid move toward mobile telephony and wireless computing. More...

Who Controls AFD?
09.17.2008
Cable and satellite need to resolve active format description issues in broadcast streams. More...

Evaluating Next-Gen Camcorders
07.25.2007
I have been watching the rollout of XDCAM with great interest for the last few years as a logical next step for our move into non-tape based production. More...

BXF Revealed as Missing Link
06.13.2007
I have been involved in automation projects since I first began working in broadcasting. More...

What's All This About 1080p and 3 Gbps?
12.12.2008
Several years ago, video mastering and archiving of film-based material for the various, and proliferating, video applications, migrated to 1080p/24 (well, really 1080p/23.98). This was a good thing, for several reasons. More...

The Evolution of Videotape Formats, Part 2
11.03.2008
This wrapping pattern requires tape that is much thinner and more flexible than 2-inch tape. It is so thin and flexible that as it travels through the transport, it is subject to stretching and flexing which effectively changes More...

Videotape is Not Dead, Either
10.01.2008
You have previously read in this column that despite several memorial services, film is not dead as a capture medium for television programming. In fact, after some flirtation with 24 fps video, we are back to the situation in More...

RED's Modular Camera Breaks New Ground
12.18.2008
Its new Scarlet professional camera and Epic master professional cameras are the result of a radical transformation that creates a new generation of imaging technology for the needs of emerging multimedia outlets. More...

Pay TV Windfall From the DTV Transition
12.03.2008
After more than a decade of denials, we now know how important a good rooftop, rotor-driven antenna will be to millions of people wanting to receive DTV signals. More...

Wilmington—Spin From The Other Side
10.15.2008
A closer look at what happened in Wilmington only confirms what's been known for years: Simply knowing the DTV transition will occur doesn't fix the antenna and reception problems certain to follow. More...

February 17 Is Coming! (Just Past February 16)
12.03.2008
You might not have noticed that Feb. 17 is going to be a good day to celebrate TV technology. But it ain't a day most of us are going to have to do anything different with that there technology. More...

Want Sharper Pictures? Try the Other Hi-Def!
10.15.2008
Those LCD displays, I've got to admit, are a problem, but LCDs are getting faster all the time, and they ain't the only display technology in town. More...

Want to Get Real HDTV? Turn Down the Lighting
09.17.2008
When light spreads out due to an edge, the waves charging straight ahead are going to get to a plane a little earlier than the ones taking a diagonal route. More...