Schubin Cafe: How Opera Has Assisted Broadcasting
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
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
Magical Realism: A Look at NAB 2019 by Mark Schubin
Mark’s annual NAB wrap-up, from the man who has visited every booth at every NAB show since 1973. TRT: 23:45 More
Schubin Cafe: The Latest in Lens Technology & The Lens That Started It All
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
Schubin Cafe: The Earliest Idea for an Electronic Camera?
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
Schubin Cafe: HPA 2019 Technology Year in Review by Mark Schubin
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
Jim St. Lawrence 1944-2018
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
SMPTE Technology Webcast: Mark Schubin’s “Six Centuries of Opera and Media Technology in New York”
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
Official History
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
Schubin Cafe: Tomorrow: It’s Always a Day Away by Mark Schubin
Recorded at the SMPTE Toronto, Toronto Technical Conference (TTC2018) on June 13, 2018. More