Is a Million Years Long Enough?
A team at the University of Southampton has come up with what they’re calling a five-dimensional quartz optical disc memory capable of storing 360 TB per disc for a million […] 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
The Earlier Earliest Bell Recording
This week, there has been a lot of publicity about the first recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice, an 1885 disk, finally being heard thanks to the latest technology. But there […] More
Enabling the Fix
Sometimes cliches are true. Sometimes the check is in the mail. And sometimes you can fix it in post. Amazingly, the category of what you can fix might be getting a lot […] More
Peter Centen's Slides for the 2013 SMPTE TSC
Peter Centen’s 2013 TSC slides More
Media-Technology and Opera History
Below are most of the posts and comments that have appeared on the LinkedIn Media-Technology and Opera History group. As more are posted, they will be added here. Unless otherwise […] More
New York City Opera Companies
(partial list) After Dinner Opera – http://www.afterdinneropera.org/ American Lyric Theater – http://www.altnyc.org/ American Opera Projects – http://www.operaprojects.org/ Amore Opera – http://amoreopera.org/ Animal Stone Productions – http://www.andyteirstein.com/ Beth Morrison Projects – […] More
Leg Asea
Joe Zaller, a manager of the very popular (16,000-member) Television Broadcast Technologies group on LinkedIn, tweeted on February 21 from the 2013 HPA Tech Retreat in Indian Wells, California: “Pretty […] More
The Habit and "The Hobbit"
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
"No opera, no X-rays!"
The headline above was as surprising to me as it might be to you. Here’s the story. The first published information about x-rays, Wilhelm Röntgen’s “Über eine neue Art von […] More
Seeing Sound Waves
John Huntington posted a comment on my “Late–and See?” post about latency and lip sync. It includes this link to a video that illustrates very well the speed of sound: http://controlgeek.net/2009/1/21/seeing-sound-waves.html More