Paul McGoldrick

Paul McGoldrick takes a look at this year’s NAB – from the new halls to the mood broadcasters will be in this year.

For the first time in many a year certainly since before the death of the Rotunda and the old North Hall (where the South Hall now is) it will be possible

There is a lot you can deduce from NAB2005, and there is a lot more that is not nearly so obvious unless you are in a position where you can sit back and look at it all objectively

Countries are making a mistake by not adopting the video frame rate standard to 720p/60 and 1080i/60

It seems like it has only been a few years since all the manufacturers were touting the claim that their equipment was of broadcast-quality. Their claims

The standards war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray has come full front

A while back, I was offered the opportunity to rebuild an AM transmitter station that I had originally installed. It was destroyed accidentally when an

Here’s your chance to be a Monday-morning quarterback and save the game.

I always seem to be harping about video, but what's happening in the world of audio? Are we, in fact, making any progress for the future of what we hear

It seems that whatever the FCC says about 8-VSB and COFDM, the issue is not going away.

Different cable systems will not necessarily be able to bring their receivers with them. Putting labels on things is a way to identify what the objects

When I read analysts' reports, I often wonder if we've visited the same company. Having a title like Industry Watcher gives me an inherent right, I believe,

A lot of people opened Christmas packages last month to the requisite oohs and aahs and found the latest generation of electronics staring back at them.

As a young broadcast engineer I was encouraged to join SMPTE because it represented the American face of television engineering to us very remote guys

As we look around the broadcast industry, we see a number of dominant suppliers who control the vast majority of the dollars that are spent. But whether

Putting labels on things is a way to identify what the objects are; applying labels to tell you what things might become is at best confusing - and, at

Don't you just hate it when some-one reneges on a deal? It doesn't matter whether it is a small thing like meeting for lunch or a big thing like a job

Lawmakers' ability to write bills with inexactitudes leaves wiggle room for everybody. My education must have been fairly violent compared to those of

There are many things that parents are fearful about when it comes to their children. The worst is when you fear for them physically — in road traffic accidents or criminal activity like kidnapping.

Making massive changes in technology is not easy on consumers.

We have gone through some really silly corporate name changes that have thrown away branding efforts. Putting brand marks on products is as old as the

Professionals out there now say that it is a bad idea to name a business after yourself because you may, among other reasons, end up selling your name with the company down the road.