Sunrise at Campobello
An early version of the post “125th Anniversary of Pay Cable” said Sunrise at Campobello was written and directed by Dore Schary. It should have said it was written and […] 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
Metropolitan Opera Hits Top-10 Box Office!
Actually, The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD, the series of transmissions to movie theaters that began in December 2006, has hit the top-10 of weekend theatrical box office many times […] More
125th Anniversary of Pay Cable
Question: What is shown in the drawing at the left? Here’s more information to help you figure it out: It’s a small portion, the lower left corner, of a larger […] More
IBC 2010 – 2D, 3D, 4D, 5D
There was plenty of 3D at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam this year. At the awards ceremony, alone, the audience was frequently asked to don 3D glasses to […] More
3D Camera: Something Different
I’ve been writing about 3D image capture for more than 35 years. I’ve covered side-by-side and beam-splitter rigs, parallel and toed-in lenses, integrated cameras, single-lens stereo, integral imaging, 3D illusions, […] More
Sooner than the Distant Future
My post “What’s Next” today (http://schubincafe.com/blog/2010/09/whats-next/) covered some of the futuristic technology shown at Canon Expo at the Javits Convention Center in New York last week. There were also products […] More
What's Next?
These were some of the things that could be seen at Canon Expo at New York’s Javits Convention Center last week: ice skaters pirouetting without ice, people viewing someone dressed […] More
2011 HPA Tech Retreat Call for Presentations
This is a call for proposed presentations for the Hollywood Post Alliance’s 2011 Tech Retreat (the 17th annual), February 15-18, at Rancho Las Palmas, in Rancho Mirage, California (Palm Springs […] More
Good News: I See 3D
It has been a good 3D month for me. A local cinema has been running a series of classic 3D movies from the 1950s, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for […] More
One Whole Heck of a Lot of Pixels!
EETimes reports that Canon has developed an APS-H-sized (roughly 35-mm movie frame) image sensor with 120 million pixels. How many is that? Any one-sixtieth of the area of the sensor […] More