Latest articles by James O'Neal
If you’re not familiar with Lee Tingler’s “SolderBuddy” products, they are a family of rather inexpensive devices designed to assist in the installation of solder-type audio connectors.
Until fairly recently, repositories for cast-off broadcast gear—aside from landfills and scrap metal dealers—didn’t really exist.
When I was in my “formative years” (whatever they are), my parents, relatives, teachers, neighbors and others passed on many gems of wisdom.
What really defines “broadcast quality” and has such a thing ever really existed?
If you were at the Hollywood SMPTE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition last October, you might have sat in on a paper authored by the CMO and co-founder of Archmedia Technology, Josef Marc.
Television broadcasting is nothing new here; actually it dates back to the time of the big post-World War II U.S. TV launch.
I first heard the saying “nothing is more permanent than change” when I was a boy, (60 or so years ago).
I recently wrote about the value (and necessity) of keeping up-to-date, especially in a broadcast engineering career.
The U.S. incentive auctioning of television broadcast spectrum has been shrouded in uncertainty ever since it got underway, with broadcasters and others expressing a growing list of concerns.
