First Base to Primo Basso
I know of only one person who gave up an opera career for baseball, but there seem to have been many who have gone in the opposite direction. On Site […] More
Mark Schubin
Mark Schubin ranks among the best of the best television engineers today. He brings more than 40 years experience to every production along with a wealth of television history and lore. A consultant now to many large communications companies both here and abroad he took time out from his busy schedule to talk to us about the production of an opera produced in 720p with the Panasonic production truck, the same one used for many of the ABC produced Monday Night Football games. Mark talks about some of the characteristics of HDTV which differ from the older standard.
Recent Posts by Mark Schubin
Schubin Cafe: How Opera Has Assisted Broadcasting
Check out Mark Schubin’s keynote presentation given at the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Symposium, Hartford Marriott Downtown on October 2, 2019. More
No, Virginia, the Moon Landing Could Not Have Been Faked in 1969
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 left the Earth’s surface; 50 years ago on July 20, humans walked on the moon’s surface for the first time. I just posted something […] More
Schubin Cafe: The Latest in Lens Technology & The Lens That Started It All
Some people don’t think 4K video offers enough visual impact over HD to be worth the trouble, but SMPTE Life Fellow Mark Schubin argues that even those people should be […] More
Schubin Cafe: The Earliest Idea for an Electronic Camera?
In this quick Schubin Cafe bite, Mark Schubin examines where the earliest idea for an electronic camera actually came from a 15-year-old Austration – beating everyone else by at least […] More
Schubin Cafe: HPA 2019 Technology Year in Review by Mark Schubin
The annual HPA Tech Retreat took place last week and industry legend Marc Schubin once again delivered his Technology Year in Review presentation. This is a recording of the presentation, […] More
Jim St. Lawrence 1944-2018
Movie director Errol Morris is justly praised for the use of the “Interrotron,” a system allowing even untrained subjects to speak directly into a video camera’s lens as though conversing with […] More
Schubin Cafe: Six Centuries of Opera and Media Technology in New York
Electronic home entertainment was invented in New York City for opera; so were headphones. The first compatible-color television program seen at home was opera in New York; so was the […] More
Official History
My latest historical paper, on watching live remote baseball games for 50 years before television, was just published in the Proceedings of the IEEE. My previous historical papers for them were […] More
Happy to Be an Opera Engineer
October 2017 marks my 45th consecutive year as (freelance) engineer-in-charge at the media department at the Metropolitan Opera. That’s a long time to work for a company, but it’s not […] More