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		<title>Old Media Takes It On The Chin From Scott Adams &#8211; Inadvertently.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Adams wanted to make a topical comic about the recent iPhone 4G drama that&#8217;s been all the buzz recently and realized that his normal outlet (a newspaper) has a propagation delay of about a month. &#8220;I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work through the pipeline.&#8221; His only option [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/27/old-media-takes-it-on-the-chin-from-scott-adams-inadvertently/</link>
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		<title>iPad Mobile DTV FAIL [Pic]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While checking the Mobile DTV pavilion at the NAB convention in Las Vegas today I came across several mobile and portable devices showing off how well they can decode and display the new mobile DTV signals being broadcast.  All save one&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/12/ipad-mobile-dtv-fail-pic/</link>
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		<title>A Good Engineer Is Hard To Find&#8230;  For TV Anyway.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently talking with a sales rep I deal with and we got on the topic of the aging TV engineering workforce.  He told me a rather depressing story about a recent SBE chapter meeting in his area where one of the old timers started poking fun at a couple  younger members who were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/05/a-good-engineer-is-hard-to-find-for-tv-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Terrestrial Radio.  It&#8217;s as bad as I remember.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been about five years since I bought into Sirius satellite (paid) radio.  At the time, like many initial customers,  I was spending a lot of time in a company truck.  For me it was driving from hilltop-to-hilltop working on transmitters or to various studios within &#8220;driving distance&#8221; and I quickly became fed up with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2010/04/02/terrestrial-radio-its-as-bad-as-i-remember/</link>
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		<title>Cable&#8217;s Latest Attempt to Elminate Local Channel Carriage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new article in Broadcasting &#38; Cable highlights the American Cable Association&#8217;s attempt to sway the FCC via a December 11th letter by the ACA President Matt Polka (in addition to the regular lobbying of cable-related issues through their PAC) to eliminate &#8220;Must Carry&#8221; rules so that they can &#8220;offer Internet speeds as fast as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2009/12/12/cables-latest-attempt-to-elminate-local-channel-carriage/</link>
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		<title>My Custom BlackBerry Curve Theme.  Red Nebula.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a business user of BlackBerry phones for a few years now and, although I won&#8217;t get into a rant about which phone is the best phone to buy, I will say that in having these devices foisted upon me by my oh-so-wise-and-indefatigable employers I have found them capable e-mail devices and decent phones, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2009/11/02/my-custom-blackberry-curve-theme-red-nebula/</link>
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		<title>Making My Netbook Sing. And Dance. And Play Movies.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I mentioned before that I really like gadgets and a few months back I bought an eeePC 1000HA for under $400. This is one of the very first Netbooks to have the Atom processor and a 160GB hard drive instead of the paltry 4GB flash drives in the early models. I really wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2009/02/16/making-my-netbook-sing-and-dance-and-play-movies/</link>
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		<title>The DTV Delay Debacle.  Just cut the cord already&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently our congress has passed legislation to delay the DTV transition/analog shut-off yet again &#8211; this time to June 12th of 2009.  For those that aren&#8217;t already aware this makes the 2nd time the date has been put off.  The original date (created in 1997) for this to happen was December 31st, 2006, but in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2009/02/06/the-dtv-delay-debacle-just-cut-the-cord-already/</link>
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		<title>The PlayOn Beta.  Bridging Internet Video To My TV.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago I was selected to download MediaMall&#8216;s PlayOn Media Server and try their beta version of software that bridges content from several Internet video provider sites to a TV.  In reality it requires a few more components along with the software to make it work, such as a PC to run the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/10/07/the-playon-beta-bridging-internet-video-to-my-tv/</link>
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		<title>Hello Mobile DTV.  Goodbye HDTV.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of what some liberal arts students or free-love hippies may tell you, you don&#8217;t get something for nothing.  Or, better yet, as the redoubtable Robert Heinlein coined, &#8220;TANSTAAFL&#8221; (There ain&#8217;t no such thing as a free lunch).  This simple truth frames the cold, hard realities about to face broadcasters after the current mobile DTV [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://seantorbett.com/2008/08/24/hello-mobile-dtv-goodbye-hdtv/</link>
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