BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Latest articles by BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Losing the race
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
This month’s editorial focuses on TV broadcasters unfair treatment by the FCC.
DTV wizardry
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
Always looking for the latest news on digital TV, I received a tip in my e-mail saying that a new DTV chip had been discovered, one that claimed to make DTV reception easy and reliable.
The DVB-T fork in the road
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
Well, folks, we're at the fork in the digital television road, and we have to make some choices.
One magazine couldn't hold it all.
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
To help readers gain access to as many new products from the 2004 NAB show as possible, we at Broadcast Engineering magazine developed the NAB Special

Hollywood obsoletes six million HDTV sets
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
With Hollywood's and the FCC's help, everything you see on your new HDTV set may be fuzzy
NAB04: What attendees think
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
AT NAB, I quickly become an How do I know that? Because literally everyone asks me what I think is the hottest thing at the show, what's drawing all the

Hollywood is the puppet master
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
If Hollywood has its way, broadcasters will become the modern equivalent of the bucket brigade.

Customer no-service
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
Okay, I'm not the brightest bulb in the lot, but I know when a company doesn't care about my business. In this case, I'm talking about the cable company.
Asleep at the wheel
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
If broadcasters think European viewers will be content with 625-like digital video, they are wrong. Once TV viewers see HD images, they want it.
Broadcast Armageddon
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
Media Armageddon is coming. The end as we know it will come soon, starting as an epidemic of media mergers. The hundreds of media companies will be quickly consumed by a few, omnipotent corporations.

Does HD make me look fat?
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
It seems that some of those in front of the (HD) camera aren't so pleased at the technology's high quality.
Special report: NAB new products
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
As NAB has grown, so too has the number of new products and technology demonstrations at the convention. There's frankly just too much there for any one

Watch TV and become good-looking and rich
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
As I clicked through the channels, I discovered there are only three kinds of programming at this hour.
2nd Annual Excellence Awards
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
We're proud to present the second annual Broadcast Engineering Engineering Excellence Awards. These awards recognize innovation, quality design and construction

The modern woman
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
The stereotype of women being focused on fashion and jewelry has just been shattered. Today's modern woman apparently loves her electronics about as much as we guys do.
Manufacturers take the long-term view
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
As a former broadcast engineer, I love new technology. Even so, I don't always have to have the latest and greatest new gadget either. On a personal level,
It stays in Vegas.
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
So, you're planning on coming to what's sometimes called sin city Las Vegas, Nevada for the NAB convention? Well, not to worry. The city has adopted a
Play the cards
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
You've heard the crying. Boo hoo, it's tough out there. We're not making any money (or not as much as we used to). Those mean 'ol cable and satellite

Lower the visual volume
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
While watching the Fox News channel, I’ve realized just how much extraneous crap — excuse me, information — is being crammed onto our TV screens
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