ANTHONY R. GARGANO

Watch out for this ATSC-M/H competitor

For years, analog NTSC just chugged along with relatively simple routing and switching requirements. The future-proofing challenge when laying out a new

We are days away from completing the long journey to the promise of DTV. Originally, the great analog switch-off was never planned to be such. The initiative

Last month, the ATSC announced the elevation of its Draft Document A153, Specification for Mobile Digital Television, to the status of candidate standard.

Having spent the bulk of a career on the equipment supply side of the broadcast industry, I have been through a number of business cycles. One lesson

Put the financial geniuses in charge of the asylum, and they will invariably come up with the worst of ideas that favor short-term, bottom-line results.

For a while, it appeared the Mobile DTV Pavilion at this year's NAB show was, in reality, a geocache. In order to find it, it seemed one needed to sign

For a while, it appeared the Mobile DTV Pavilion at this year's NAB show was, in reality, a geocache. In order to find it, it seemed one needed to sign

From time to time, the world of advertising hits a home run by producing memorable television commercials with catchy sayings that eventually join the

It is a presidential election year the quadrennial event that all broadcasters look forward to with great relish. For many broadcasters, it is their version

Welcome to yet another installment of what I refer to as Broadcast Engineering's Andy Rooney segment. It's fun to be given the final page of this great

The history of entertainment media is rife with portents of gloom upon the advent of the next newest entertainment delivery technology. Sixty years ago,

Video capture tools get curiouser and curiouser.

The event offered demonstrations of a variety of advanced technologies, as well as glimpses of the future.

3-D TV is overhyped and not ready for prime time — yet.

Displays have gone from small to large and back again

In the February 2010 edition of Broadcast Engineering, I wrote a column about nontraditional tools for use in broadcast and production applications. One

The supply chain of content from its initial acquisition to final delivery to the viewer has been revolutionized as a function of the digital era in which

When it comes to 3-D, there is nothing new under the sun

Someday history will probably reflect the late 20th and early 21st centuries as the era of the Digital Revolution. And, certainly the life-changing consequences

A peaceful, tree-lined setting across from a softball field seems like a wonderful locale to house artifacts from the storied, early years of television.

The film industry has perfected to a science the maximization of revenue of its movie libraries. Initially, revenue is generated through a release timeline

Is it really that old? Actually, it is. That oft-used phrase referring to necessity as the mother of invention has its derivation in Book 2 of Plato's