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Help Fund a Book About Henry Sutton, Television Pioneer

By Mark Schubin | Monday, August 15, 2016 - 1:10 pm

  In 1890, Henry Sutton, of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, published the diagram above (minus the annotations) in The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review. It was, conceivably, the first viable proposal for […]  More

It's the End of an Era, But Which?

By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, July 26, 2016 - 11:59 am

  The day after the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the society that became SMPTE, The New York Times reported on July 25, 2016, on the front page […]  More

NAB 2016 Wrap-up

By Michael msilbergleid | Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 6:53 am

Recorded on May 25, 2016 at the SMPTE DC “Bits by the Bay,” Managing Technologies in Transition at the Chesapeake Beach Resort & Spa. TRT: 33:00 (52 MB) Download link: […]  More

HDR: The Great, the Okay, and the Yikes!

By Michael msilbergleid | Sunday, May 22, 2016 - 6:45 pm

HDR: The Great, the Okay, and the Yikes! Of all of the picture improvements being discussed today, high dynamic range (HDR) offers the most bang for the bit. It has […]  More

Crowded Room, Empty Booth

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 10:50 pm

Yesterday, at the 2016 NAB Show in Las Vegas, the National Association of Broadcasters’ big annual event, I visited “The ATSC 3.0 Consumer Experience” at the southernmost end of the […]  More

Ralph Baruch 1923-2016 (and me)

By Mark Schubin | Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 8:44 am

  Ralph Baruch died on Thursday, March 3, 2016, at age 92. A giant of our industry, after escaping the Nazis in Europe, he was a movie-theater usher, an engineer […]  More

IEEE Proceedings: Fandom of the Opera

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 3:06 pm

  This one has it all, from toxic candles to quantum entanglement, the story of how opera created the modern media world, with full references. Here’s a free link to […]  More

The First Bootleg Recording

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 2:50 pm

  Opera has a long history of bootleg recording. The “Golden Age of Opera” label, begun in the 1950s, used unauthorized off-air recordings from Metropolitan Opera (Met) radio broadcasts. Before […]  More

The Fandom of the Opera at McGill University by Mark Schubin

By Michael msilbergleid | Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 2:54 pm

“The Fandom of the Opera” at McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Music and Media Technology, by Mark Schubin Electronic home entertainment, movies, consumer headphones – even newscasts and […]  More

Let's Go Mets!

By Mark Schubin | Friday, October 9, 2015 - 10:04 am

  As this is being written, the New York Mets are still contenders for the 2015 baseball championship. They won in 1969 and 1986 after having the worst record in […]  More

Where Did The Newscast Come From?

By Michael msilbergleid | Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 1:23 pm

  Where Did The Newscast Come From? SMPTE DC Bits-by-the-Bay, Chesapeake Beach Resort May 20, 2015 Direct Link (16 MB / TRT 8:14): Where Did The Newscast Come From? Embedded:  More