Origins of the Newscast by Mark Schubin (History of Media Series)

By Michael Silbergleid | Friday, June 11, 2021 - 3:33 pm

We live in a world of the 24-hour news cycle. Would you believe the idea was published in 1846? A war correspondent is injured on the job in the Middle East and becomes the video news story; that was published in 1882, complete with press markings on the vehicle, product placement on the news set, […]  More

HPA 2021 Technology Year in Review by Mark Schubin

By Michael Silbergleid | Saturday, May 1, 2021 - 9:22 am

Mark Schubin’s annual Technology Year in Review, from the HPA Tech Retreat 2021. This is a re-recording of the original presentation. Oops! At slide 57 (about 12:14 in), I said “petabyte,” and it should have been “petabit.” TRT: 15:14  More

Opera and Technology: Pre- and Post-Pandemic (part of the Fandom of the Opera series) by Mark Schubin

By Michael Silbergleid | Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 11:33 am

A re-recording of the presentation given to the SMPTE New England section on April 21, 2021. TRT: 1:04:16  More

A History of Television by Mark Schubin

By Michael Silbergleid | Saturday, August 1, 2020 - 9:13 am

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

HPA 2020 Technology Year in Review: Wasn’t the Future Wonderful?

By Michael Silbergleid | Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 3:18 pm

Presented at the 2020 HPA Technology Retreat on February 19, 2020.  More

The End of the Line: A Brief Introduction to Human Aural & Visual Perception

By Michael Silbergleid | Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 9:46 am

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

AI and Broadcasting: The Best Use Case

By Michael Silbergleid | Friday, November 22, 2019 - 12:19 pm

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

Webinar: How Opera Helped Create the Motion Image Media by Mark Schubin

By Michael Silbergleid | Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 2:55 pm

Recorded on October 31, 2019 https://vimeo.com/371364853  More

Schubin Cafe: How Opera Has Assisted Broadcasting

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Monday, October 7, 2019 - 12:35 pm

Check out Mark Schubin’s keynote presentation given at the 2019 IEEE Broadcast Symposium, Hartford Marriott Downtown on October 2, 2019.   More

No, Virginia, the Moon Landing Could Not Have Been Faked in 1969

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - 4:50 pm

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