Thomas Edison’s earliest patent filing (a caveat) for motion pictures was in 1888, but 11 years earlier the first publication about television appeared, and there has not been a year since without television research. Yet there does not appear to have been any video research — not even speculation or fantasy — prior to 1877. […] More
Presented at the 2020 HPA Technology Retreat on February 19, 2020. More
TRT: 1:10:15 Recorded at the SMPTE New York Section February meeting February 12, 2020 CBS Broadcast Center 524 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 More
If you’ve read my writing before, you know I love to pick a topic and rant. Been doing it since my Television Broadcast magazine editing days. So here we go. But first, a little introduction… If you attended IBC 2019, or read about the latest developments at the show, you probably ran across a few […] More
Recorded on October 31, 2019 https://vimeo.com/371364853 More
Check out Mark Schubin’s keynote presentation given at the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Symposium, Hartford Marriott Downtown on October 2, 2019. More
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 left the Earth’s surface; 50 years ago on July 20, humans walked on the moon’s surface for the first time. I just posted something on LinkedIn about both my experience of those moments and how I’ve been asked by such organizations as BBC TV to explain my opinion of […] More
Mark’s annual NAB wrap-up, from the man who has visited every booth at every NAB show since 1973. TRT: 23:45 More
Some people don’t think 4K video offers enough visual impact over HD to be worth the trouble, but SMPTE Life Fellow Mark Schubin argues that even those people should be considering “4K” lenses because their “frequency response” at HD is better than that of HD lenses. He also provides some possibly shocking information about the […] More
In this quick Schubin Cafe bite, Mark Schubin examines where the earliest idea for an electronic camera actually came from a 15-year-old Austration – beating everyone else by at least seven years. This presentation was recorded at the HPA Tech Retreat on Feb. 15, 2019 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, Palm […] More
