Focusing on Size
Originally published in Videography September 2004 Here are two questions currently facing videographers: What is the size of a Super 35 mm film frame? And, more important, who cares? Throughout […] 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
People Who Need People
this is a Originally published in Videography April 2004 The technology of videography advances inexorably, but those advances don’t eliminate the need for people. Question: How many videographers does it […] More
By Whom? SMPTE Us
Originally published in Videography November 2003 Believe it or not, SMPTE really works only as a first-person pronoun. An announcement from Amsterdam in September stunned the computer world. Microsoft, notorious […] More
Minding the Store
Originally published in Videography October 2003 Video storage is one of the least considered aspects of videography, but that’s now changing. Here’s a trick question: Which came first, the video […] More
How and Wide
Originally published in Videography September 2003 Widescreen is the future of videography. So why is this blurb oriented vertically on this page? The first thing to remember is that shape […] More
We Were Shafted
Originally published in Videography August 2003 In John Logie Baird’s time, videography was crude but simple. Now what? Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe, liquid-crystal and plasma TVs, Miami Vice […] More
Three Centuries of Television
Originally published in Videography July 2003 Did you see the latest technology at a recent trade show? Might it have been developed in the 19th century? Panasonic and Sony introduced […] More
The Time Machine
Originally published in Videography magazine, April 2003 Disks offer many advantages. So why do we still use tape-based camcorders? What do the Marx Brothers and John Lennon’s widow have to […] More
Ideal or "I Deal"?
Originally published in Videography February 2003 Will television entertainment be destroyed without digital-rights management? Similar predictions were made in 1976. CBS has been pushing high-definition television (HDTV) for more than […] More
Anatal Digilog
Originally published in Videography November 2002 It is said that we are now in the digital era. But the solid-state imaging chips of “all-digital” cameras are actually analog devices. On […] More