Recent Posts tagged with Edison

The Fandom of the Opera: How the Audience for a Centuries-Old Art Form Helped Create Modern Media Technology

By Michael msilbergleid | Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 12:20 pm

Presented as part of National Opera Week at Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts & Letters, Hoboken, NJ on October 30, 2014. Believe it or not, electronic home entertainment […]  More

The Habit and "The Hobbit"

By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 2:56 pm

Here are a couple of questions to get you started: What is the image at left? And what is the sound of a telephone call? I’ll offer some more information […]  More

What It Was Was Television

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 2:58 pm

  Did Thomas Edison predict television? According to some histories, the answer is yes, and the evidence is the image below, published on December 9, 1878 and captioned “Edison’s Telephonoscope […]  More

How Different Is 3D?

By Mark Schubin | Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 4:17 pm

When you watch a televised advertisement for an automobile, do you fear there’s a moving car in the room with you? I didn’t think so. But more on that later. […]  More

The Impossible Dream: Perfect Lip Sync

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 10:55 am

There is definitely plenty that can be done to improve lip sync.  Making it perfect, however, might not be possible. Perhaps it would be best to start with a definition. […]  More

The First Sports Video

By Mark Schubin | Friday, July 10, 2009 - 11:26 am

Sports video began a long time ago  More