CRAIG BIRKMAIER

Is data the big fish that got away?

The May 1, 2002, deadline for all U.S. commercial broadcasters to begin operation of their DTV channels is now history.

It is clear that control over the flow of bits is a critical step in our migration to the new digital media infrastructure.

The ability to represent information using the binary code of ones and zeros was well established before the development of modern computers.

Many TiVo subscribers were disappointed when recent attempts to watch World Cup soccer matches were tarnished when their digital video recorders (DVRs) didn't store the programming.

Offering high-quality video files with today’s demands for multicasting and alternative distribution media requires extra attention to encoding and decoding methods

Welcome to NAB2005 your future starts here. That's an interesting way to describe the world's biggest trade show and conference, an event that is focused

A look at the past four decades and how technology has evolved and adapted to meet consumers’ needs for their professional and personal use.

If you had to pick two letters from the English alphabet with the potential to have the greatest impact on the future of broadcasting, what would they be?

In the television business, 2006 may well be remembered as the year of YouTube. Yet another in the long list of Internet phenomena, YouTube was founded

Just a few years ago, the DTV standards created and maintained by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) were under attack. ATSC efforts to

The control of intellectual property lies at the heart of the shift from an industrial-based to an information-based global society. Right now, a handful

Do you remember the good old days when television news began covering real-time and near real-time news events? I was in high school when I watched the

The news industry is in turmoil. The Internet is changing the fundamentals of how Americans (as well as people globally) get their daily news fixes. Virtually

Coming into NAB2005, the HDV format was the big buzz

By the time The Telecommunications Act of 2006 is finalized ... you will need a scorecard to identify key players