Skip to content

seantorbett.com

Broadcast television engineering, aviation, motorcycles and other sundry items.

  • Home (is where I hang my hat)
  • My Weblog
  • About
    • Contact Me
    • Projects
    • Terms of Use
seantorbett.com

Author: Sean T.

More Transmitter Caps Gone Bad

March 5, 2015 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, TV

At about 4 am we lost power on V1 and remotely found the cabinet would not become ‘ready’. On-site it[…]

Read more

A New Transmitter Problem – ‘Paper Cap’ Short!

March 2, 2015 Sean T. DTV, HDTV

Quite suddenly and without warning on February 27th, the V2 cabinet for our KBCW was constantly crowbarring (a safety function[…]

Read more

20.4% of US Broadcasters are ‘Transmitting’ Mobile-TV? Seriously?

June 23, 2013 Sean T. DTV, MobileDTV, rant, TV

Recently SCRI published a teaser article claiming that across the board “…over three in ten TV (30.6%) and almost four[…]

Read more

Old Media Takes It On The Chin From Scott Adams – Inadvertently.

April 27, 2010 Sean T. Computers, Fun, rant, TV

Scott Adams wanted to make a topical comic about the recent iPhone 4G drama that’s been all the buzz recently[…]

Read more

iPad Mobile DTV FAIL [Pic]

April 12, 2010 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, NAB, TV

While checking the Mobile DTV pavilion at the NAB convention in Las Vegas today I came across several mobile and[…]

Read more

A Good Engineer Is Hard To Find… For TV Anyway.

April 5, 2010 Sean T. Computers, Education, HDTV, rant, TV

I was recently talking with a sales rep I deal with and we got on the topic of the aging[…]

Read more

Terrestrial Radio. It’s as bad as I remember.

April 2, 2010 Sean T. Fun, rant

It’s been about five years since I bought into Sirius satellite (paid) radio.  At the time, like many initial customers, […]

Read more

Cable’s Latest Attempt to Elminate Local Channel Carriage

December 12, 2009 Sean T. Cable, rant, TV

A new article in Broadcasting & Cable highlights the American Cable Association’s attempt to sway the FCC via a December[…]

Read more

My Custom BlackBerry Curve Theme. Red Nebula.

November 2, 2009 Sean T. Fun, Hacks, Projects

I’ve been a business user of BlackBerry phones for a few years now and, although I won’t get into a[…]

Read more

Making My Netbook Sing. And Dance. And Play Movies.

February 16, 2009 Sean T. Computers, Fun, Projects

I’m sure I mentioned before that I really like gadgets and a few months back I bought an eeePC 1000HA[…]

Read more

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 6 Next Posts»

Posts

February 2021
S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28  
« Mar    

Google Ads

Most Used Tags

analog Analog Transition antenna Blu-Ray broadcast Cell Phones Common Sense Computers corporate Digital DTV Education Engineering fame Food Format War Fun Future hack Hacks HD HD-DVD HDTV Ice Storm Internet jokes KHBS KHOG MadTV Maintenance Mobile MobileDTV Movies NAB News Projects PS3 rant Router shutoff Spoof stupidity television Transition TV
WordPress Theme: Poseidon by ThemeZee.