Mario Orazio

You might not have noticed, but… I guess I’m not much of a gamblin’ man.

You might not have noticed, but… these days, things are lookin’ down. Literally.

So I’m shoppin’ for accessories for that sweet little helmet-cam I just bought to record all my pie-eating triumphs at the annual Festa San’ Guido.

You might not have noticed, but… reliability don’t come cheap.

How can you possibly keep pace with algebraic leaps in next-great-invention bitrates?

The rap is that innovation is no longer happening in the teevees and stereos that members of the Consumer Electronics Association are flogging

While we've been getting fatter and slower, video recorders have been getting faster and smaller

A lot of you were left at the altar when the latest version, Final Cut Pro X, broke the mold, as well as the entire commercial workflow.

Lately, broadcast stations have gotten into the multichannel biz in such a big way that it frequently degrades the primary HD signal.

Look, there's only one legitimate reason to go to the big show each April. It's to get away from the office and maybe play a little golf in the desert sun.

You may not have noticed, but I’m a pretty spiritual character. And I’ve just returned from a retreat.

Moore's Law has been working over the decades, and individual transistors have gotten really, really small.

Maybe there's a method to that madness—something TV broadcasters, regulators and legislators might want to take note of.

TV technology ain’t brain surgery. TV technology ain’t rocket science. TV technology is all about illusions.

This ain’t (exactly) about the transition to DTV.

"Time flies." "You can't stop progress." "If you snooze, you lose." Yes, of course I'm ranting this month about the war on piracy.

When light spreads out due to an edge, the waves charging straight ahead are going to get to a plane a little earlier than the ones taking a diagonal route.

You might not have noticed that not everything that can be imagined always happens. Yes, I'm ranting this month about new display technologies.

You might not have noticed that not everyone on TV is fat. Yes, this month's rant is about image shapes. Here's what I mean.

You might not have noticed that objective measurements have gone the way of NTC-7. I ain’t sure if that’s good or bad, but it surely does leave a big hole in equipment specs.

When HDCAM came out, you could count the number of TV stations transmitting HDTV on the fingers of one hand.

You might not have noticed that it’s no longer 1996.