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Goberman Leaving Lincoln Center

By Mark Schubin | Friday, June 8, 2012 - 3:54 pm

  When you think of the very latest in motion-image technology, you might think of laser projection, glasses-free stereoscopic-3D, digital surround sound, high-dynamic-range imaging, and the like. Would you believe […]  More

World Opera Project Needs Help

By Mark Schubin | Monday, October 10, 2011 - 8:15 am

Those of you who follow my activities know that one of them is discussing how, over the course of the last four centuries, opera helped create the modern media world: […]  More

Sony OLED Reference Monitors

By Mark Schubin | Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 1:49 pm

At next week’s HPA Tech Retreat in Rancho Mirage, California, Sony will introduce their TriMaster EL series of OLED reference monitors, the 16.5-inch BVM E170 and the 24.5-inch BVM E250. […]  More

Everything Is First!

By Mark Schubin | Friday, February 4, 2011 - 5:51 pm

The laugh-getting tag line for Garrison Keillor’s weekly Lake Wobegon stories is that “all of the children are above average.” It’s funny because it’s impossible. So, too, with 3D; not […]  More

3D vs. HD?

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 8:32 am

A session titled “Depth Perceptions: Technical Approaches for 3D Video Integration” at yesterday’s 2010 Cable Connection Spring Technical Forum drove home the current conflict between 3D and HDTV in the […]  More

How Old Is Your Stereographer?

By Mark Schubin | Monday, April 12, 2010 - 9:31 am

Speaking at the Sports Video Group Chairman’s Forum in Las Vegas Saturday night, Professor Martin Banks of the Visual Space Perception Laboratory at the University of California – Berkeley raised […]  More

3D Brings Science to Showbiz

By Mark Schubin | Monday, April 5, 2010 - 4:21 pm

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is respected worldwide as the largest non-profit ocean research, engineering, and education organization.  Now, through its Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory, it’s also involved in […]  More

Broadcast & Broadband Together

By Mark Schubin | Friday, April 2, 2010 - 2:18 pm

If broadcast spectrum is ceded to broadband, do all the Super Bowl viewers need individual links to watch?  In many cases, broadcast is a much more efficient use of spectrum […]  More

3D Is Wonderful, Except….

By Mark Schubin | Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 9:45 am

Richard Sandomir of The New York Times was among the press who attended yesterday’s demonstration of what 3D Masters coverage might look like, and he wrote a glowing review of […]  More

Cheerleader Says Whoa!

By Mark Schubin | Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 9:57 am

A recent editorial said of 3DTV, “Let’s back away from irrational exuberance….”  Was it written by a broadcaster or program producer worried about losing audience to those offering 3DTV?  Not […]  More

Consumer Reports already finds differences between 3DTV sets

By Mark Schubin | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 8:16 pm

There’s a video here: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/video-hub/electronics/televisions/16935238001/ One note: It’s not necessarily a bad thing to be unable to see 3D when the axis of your eyes is vertical.  More