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

27 April, 2010 (11:00) | Computers, Fun, TV, rant |

Scott Adams wanted to make a topical comic about the recent iPhone 4G drama that’s been all the buzz recently and realized that his normal outlet (a newspaper) has a propagation delay of about a month.
“I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work through the pipeline.”
His only option in [...]

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

5 April, 2010 (00:23) | Computers, Education, HDTV, TV, rant |

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 [...]

NAB 2007 REVIEW

24 April, 2007 (14:14) | HDTV, NAB |

For several years I have been attending the NAB convention and this year I was asked to craft a report for my current employer: ION Media Networks.
>General Observations:

The last few years I have noticed a progressive thinning of broadcast television specific technology and a steady shift toward digital media primarily focusing on its creation, storage, [...]