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
The annual HPA Tech Retreat took place last week and industry legend Marc Schubin once again delivered his Technology Year in Review presentation. This is a recording of the presentation, which was originally presented at the HPA Tech Retreat on Feb. 13, 2019 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, CA. More
Movie director Errol Morris is justly praised for the use of the “Interrotron,” a system allowing even untrained subjects to speak directly into a video camera’s lens as though conversing with another person. Before Morris’s first movie, however, Jim St. Lawrence came up with the same technique for use on one of his series on TVOntario; he […] More
Electronic home entertainment was invented in New York City for opera; so were headphones. The first compatible-color television program seen at home was opera in New York; so was the first bootleg recording. New York’s media technologies for opera date back to the 16th century and in the 21st century include dynamic video warping with […] More
My latest historical paper, on watching live remote baseball games for 50 years before television, was just published in the Proceedings of the IEEE. My previous historical papers for them were on why television research began in 1877 (and why television histories don’t say that) and on how opera incubated electrical and electronics technologies. Enjoy! More
Recorded at the SMPTE Toronto, Toronto Technical Conference (TTC2018) on June 13, 2018. More
Mark Schubin’s annual NAB review is now available at the Schubin Cafe. Recorded at the SMPTE DC meeting on May 23, 2018. Always a highlight for anyone in the broadcast industry, Schubin once again provides his overview of the big show in the desert after once again visiting every single booth at the LVCC. More
