Can You Fix It in Post?
Can you fix it in post? The simple answer is: Yes. Consider Avatar. Not only was an entire world created and populated in computers, but even a human actor’s legs […] 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
HDMI 1.4a
As Blu Laser Digital commented on my recent 3DTV Today post, there are non-broadcast modes in the HDMI 1.4a specification that allow full spatial resolution for both views. For 1920×1080, […] More
3DTV Today: One Step Back
The Society of Motion-Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) just completed an International Conference on Stereoscopic 3D for Media and Entertainment, what it calls “the only scientific gathering focused exclusively on […] More
Pico the Hits
Roger Payano has a BS in mechanical engineering and an MS in industrial engineering and has worked in the defense industry, but when he was applauded recently at the Kennedy […] More
3DTV: How Wow Now?
A funny thing happened to me at the Digital Cinema Forum this year. There was a 3ality tutorial on the basics of shooting 3D. When they demonstrated bad stuff, it […] More
Oh Less for OLED?
OLED seems an ideal display technology except for two problems. One was lifetimes, but the OLED monitors shown at last month’s NAB convention were said to be good to 20,000 […] More
3D vs. HD?
A session titled “Depth Perceptions: Technical Approaches for 3D Video Integration” at yesterday’s 2010 Cable Connection Spring Technical Forum drove home the current conflict between 3D and HDTV in the […] More
The Elephant in the Room: 3D at NAB 2010
As I roamed the exhibits at the NAB show this month, I kept wondering what other year it seemed most like. And I was not alone. There were plenty of […] More
How Old Is Your Stereographer?
Speaking at the Sports Video Group Chairman’s Forum in Las Vegas Saturday night, Professor Martin Banks of the Visual Space Perception Laboratory at the University of California – Berkeley raised […] More
3D Brings Science to Showbiz
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is respected worldwide as the largest non-profit ocean research, engineering, and education organization. Now, through its Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, it’s also involved in […] More