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  • More Transmitter Caps Gone Bad

    March 5, 2015 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, TV
  • A New Transmitter Problem – ‘Paper Cap’ Short!

    March 2, 2015 Sean T. DTV, HDTV
  • 20.4% of US Broadcasters are ‘Transmitting’ Mobile-TV? Seriously?

    June 23, 2013 Sean T. DTV, MobileDTV, rant, TV
  • Old Media Takes It On The Chin From Scott Adams – Inadvertently.

    April 27, 2010 Sean T. Computers, Fun, rant, TV
  • iPad Mobile DTV FAIL [Pic]

    April 12, 2010 Sean T. DTV, HDTV, NAB, TV
  • A Good Engineer Is Hard To Find… For TV Anyway.

    April 5, 2010 Sean T. Computers, Education, HDTV, rant, TV
  • Terrestrial Radio. It’s as bad as I remember.

    April 2, 2010 Sean T. Fun, rant
  • Cable’s Latest Attempt to Elminate Local Channel Carriage

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

Latest Posts

Breaking the chains. Dumping my cell phone contract.

May 17, 2008 Sean T. rant

First, let me say that this will not work for everyone and those teenagers that have their parents footing the[…]

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NAB 2008 In Review.

May 4, 2008 Sean T. Analog Transition, DTV, HDTV, NAB, rant, TV

This year’s NAB had a bit more energy among television broadcasters than the NAB show last year and almost all[…]

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DTV “coupon” converter box put to the test. Does it work?

March 18, 2008 Sean T. Analog Transition, DTV, HDTV, TV

No “film at 11” drama here; yes, it works and it works surprisingly well for a $60 piece of electronics[…]

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How the format war has changed my purchasing habits.

March 5, 2008 Sean T. HDTV, rant, TV

To be succinct, I simply don’t (and won’t) buy as much as I did before. For the past few years[…]

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Is the NAB Show going the way of COMDEX?

February 17, 2008 Sean T. Computers, NAB, rant, TV

For those that don’t know, COMDEX was a computer centric convention that ran in Las Vegas from 1979 to 2003[…]

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TV Broadcasters struggle to remain relevant. Probably too little, too late.

February 15, 2008 Sean T. Analog Transition, DTV, NAB, rant, TV

Traditional, over-the-air TV broadcasters are pretty screwed. Time and technology are rapidly shooting past and only now are they collectively[…]

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Visiting an SF Landmark. Sutro Tower.

February 1, 2008 Sean T. Analog Transition, DTV, Fun, HDTV, TV

Not many people get inside Sutro Tower, so I consider myself pretty fortunate. My current employer doesn’t have transmit facilities[…]

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Video reasons why local news is such a running gag with viewers.

January 25, 2008 Sean T. Fun, TV

Today I had a brief reminiscing with some fellow engineers about having to deal with the local news crews at[…]

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Treating analog TV transmitters like sickly inmates on death row. Keep ‘em alive… For now…

January 24, 2008 Sean T. Analog Transition, TV

All across the nation there are TV stations headed toward the analog shutdown mandated by congress on February 17th, 2009.[…]

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Why media ownership caps are important. Censorship in action.

January 21, 2008 Sean T. rant, TV

I’m a dedicated Capitalist. I work for money. Money pays my mortgages and rent, keeps my fridge full, and house[…]

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