DAVID AUSTERBERRY , EDITOR

Television viewers have more ways to view content than ever. It seems to me that the volume of content available is increasing at a much higher rate than

If you are visiting IBC this year, you could well be in Amsterdam reading this. So why did you take a week out of your busy schedule to attend the show?

By the time you are reading this, I will most likely be in Amsterdam attending IBC. Because the show ranks second to NAB as an annual broadcast equipment

What happens when you buy content, but it is locked away as a file rather than recorded on a medium that is stored on a shelf? Now that television programming

Last month I went to the Royal Television Society for the annual Schoenberg lecture, which commemorates one of the early developers of television. John

If you're attending IBC, you may well be reading this in Amsterdam. Unlike NAB, which has the word broadcasters in the title, the old International Broadcasting

At a recent event, I watched a demonstration of a new video delivery service. On a large flat screen, highly compressed video showed all the usual artifacts

The video engineer may be wedded to the waveform monitor and vectorscope, but the ultimate arbiter of quality is to view a picture monitor. Picture monitors

At a recent symposium on MXF developments in broadcast operations, I heard how those who have persevered with the format are now beginning to reap the

I have been following the recent analog switchoff in a small region of the UK. The analog shutoff is protracted as region-by-region digital transmitter

HDTV in Europe is suffering a long gestation period. Compared with the United States, mainstream programming is barely off the starting blocks. The World

That's not to say I disagree with Marshall McLuhan; I'm using the word medium out of context. In the world of broadcast technology, media can also refer

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The editor says the time has come for television to relinquish its profligate use of spectrum and welcome the analog switch-off

The editor discusses how television will adapt to new mobile and IPTV technologies

Most of the readers of Broadcast Engineering would consider themselves to have a higher level of knowledge of television and computers than the average consumer

With IBC over, it's time to reflect on the recovery. Many vendors were putting on a brave face, whereas some were showing real successes, usually through

Viewers can now see their favorite shows off-the-air, downloaded to a portable player or as pay-per-view from cable or IPTV. They can download to a PC,

I was reading the presentation made by NAB CEO, Edward O. Fritts, to the U.S. Senate committee on the switchover from analog to DTV. One of the issues

I have just returned from the BroadcastAsia show in Singapore. Being a little quieter than NAB (and what show isn't), I had time to reflect on our business.

Editor David Austerberry challenges reports that TV will go the way of the music industry, noting that many viewers are still happy to get the lean-back experience linear TV provides.