Latest articles by Randy Hoffner
Making Sense of UHDTV
Revisiting the standard in light of the recent move to promote "Filmmaker Mode."
TV Loudness: The Wild, Wild West
Cable is frequently worse than broadcast for loud commercials and uneven commercial loudness. The worst, of course, is commercially-supported online TV.
‘Inventing American Broadcasting’—A Look at How It All Began
The book by Susan J. Douglas is part of the “Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology” series.
Solving the ‘Silicon Crisis’ With Quantum Computing
If you are a recent reader of this column or other sources of electronics news, you know that we are approaching a “silicon crisis.”
OLED TV: Not Ready for Primetime?
It is still difficult and expensive to manufacture large-screen OLED displays.
So What About MPEG-4, Anyway?
Video of comparable quality can be compressed to a considerably lower bit rate, often claimed to be half the bit rate, of MPEG-2.
H.265 HEVC, The Next Step for MPEG
To understand H.265, let's look at a little MPEG history, to see where it came from
The New Commercial Loudness Law
A/85 addresses the "Anchor Element" and loudness over a specified time interval.
The New Recommended Practice on Loudness
Perceived loudness, particularly of commercials, has been a problem and a complaint as long as commercial television has been with us.
Are Viewers Rediscovering Over the Air TV?
These people obviously don’t read my column, do they?
What is 4:2:2?
4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0 -- what do these numbers mean, and where did they come from?
What Is White?
When we looked at color and color mixing, one of the things we examined was the fact that when red, green and blue lights are mixed in equal proportions, the result is neutral gray light.
