Late–and see?
Here are two facts to ponder: First, there is no such thing as perfect lip sync. Second, at Super Bowl parties across the country this coming February, many–if not most–TVs […] 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
BORSCHT in POTS
It is now one week since Hurricane Sandy made landfall, and the area it affected is by no means back to normal. This post will discuss new and old media […] More
Watching Remote Baseball Games Before TV
Today, Joyce Kilmer is best known either for his poem “Trees” or for an eponymous service area on the New Jersey Turnpike. But he was also a journalist. In a […] More
Schubin Cafe: IBC-ing the Future
Head over to the Schubin Café, to learn about the world’s first laser-projected screening of a full-length movie in stereoscopic 3D using an astoundingly bright, 63,000-lumen Christie Digital projector. The […] More
IBC-ing the Future
This is what happened on Monday night, September 10, at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam: A crowd crammed into the large (1750-seat) auditorium to see the future–well, a […] More
The Light Fantastic
Here are some questions: Why is the man in the picture above holding radioactive sheets of music? What is the strange apparatus behind him? What does it have to do […] More
Not Quite the "Cure" for Stereoblindness
I’ve posted a comment to the story that implies that the movie Hugo cured someone’s stereoblindness. But the person was never stereoblind. Here’s more from Professor Banks: “The data show quite […] More
A Baseball-Opera Chronology
“Who Would Doubt That I’m A Man,” sheet music for a baseball song from an 1895 opera I often write about the history of media technology. So why is […] More
All You Can See
The equipment exhibitions at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) often seem to have themes. Two years ago, it was stereoscopic 3D. Before that, it was […] More
Schubin Cafe: Tech Pioneer Goberman Leaving Live from Lincoln Center
When you think of the very latest in motion-image technology, you might think of laser projection, glasses-free stereoscopic-3D, digital surround sound, high-dynamic-range imaging, and the like. Would you believe that […] More