Someone Will Be There Who Knows the Answer
The Oversight Executive for Motion Intelligence of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence is scheduled to be in the southern California desert next month. So are […] More
Sines of the Times
What I’d like to say is that edges don’t really exist. And the point I’m trying to make affects everything from camera resolution to audio distortion to data transmission. But […] More
3DTV: Home and the Range
Most people don’t live in movie theaters. That could be a problem for 3-D TV. It wouldn’t be the first time that TV offered an experience different from that of […] More
The Hole Thing
Take away a camera’s mount, viewfinder, electronics, optical system (including lens), and case, and what’s left? It’s not “nothing;” it’s a hole. Holes treat light very differently from the way […] More
Walkin' in a Camera Wonderland
If you want to see products that don’t appear in U.S. trade-press magazines, you need to go beyond NAB, SMPTE, and InfoCOMM. You need to go to the International Broadcasting […] More
Angry About Contrast
If you are looking at the above picture on a nominally sized screen at a nominal viewing distance, you probably see an angry man on the left. What’s an “angry […] More
Sports, News, Porno, and… Opera?
Electronic slow motion was invented for sports video. Tapeless camcorders were created for TV news. Pornography made streaming video successful. But something else that seems to drive media-technology innovation is opera. […] More
A Brief History of Height
Based on the basic questions who, when, where, how, and why, HDTV was invented by NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation), first shown to the public in 1969 […] More
3-D for the One-Eyed
Like the earliest movies, early TV was silent. And the late, great television director Kirk Browning drove an ambulance during World War II. Believe it or not, this post is […] More
The First Sports Video
Sports video began a long time ago More