Latest articles by CRAIG BIRKMAIER
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
The networks try to find a little financial benefit from the DTV transition
The real digital TV transition begins
The deadline looms for analog shutoff. Here’s a review of the deadline and what broadcasters scrambling to assemble the remaining pieces of their solutions should do
Room for you?
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
Urban renewal
It was all supposed to be over soon. As America celebrated the arrival of 2007 in Times Square, potentially millions of televisions would go dark at the
The IPTV buzz
If you think that IPTV is the acronym for Iowa Public Television, you probably live in Iowa and have never used the Internet. that IPTV means you'll be
HD's killer app?
The era of HDTV broadcasting in the United States began near the end of 1998. Nearly a decade later, many industry pundits are still looking for the killer
Mobile madness
What is all the fuss about mobile TV? At NAB2006, the topic of mobile video broadcasting created quite a buzz. The NAB Multimedia World Conference included
Close to the edge
To be successful, broadcasters must make their services available on portable devices.
Capturing the future
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
Life after NTSC?
Just a few years ago, the DTV standards created and maintained by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) were under attack. ATSC efforts to
